Look at the Great Depression. Government spending - Civilian Conservation Corps, Tennesse Valley Authority, etc. etc. etc. got the economy moving. When people have money to spend they buy. when they buy companies have to produce more. in order to produce more they have to hire more people. McCain's economic plan doesn't cut it. Obama's plan won't work unless we open a New Deal ecomony driven by production - even if the production is first done by the government.