At the moment there is a serious lack of innovative ideas for helping to heal the economy. The only idea on the table at the moment is payroll tax cuts ... which for a variety of reasons are far from an efficient use of resources ... Let's borrow $100 billion and give it to people that already have jobs so that they can buy stuff, much of it imported from China .. oh and the $100 billion is probably borrowed from China too ... and will have to be paid back out of future tax revenues, with interest.
There have to be better ideas.
Here is one ... its called the h.g.o.d. program, were h.g.o.d. stands for Help Get Outa Debt.