The stimulus package that the HOPE Era that is also called the Obama Administration launching point must come down to the simplest of numbers~~~30,000,000 "net" jobs created in the U.S. market and a corresponding Global economic expansion.

This number represents the simple measure of MAKING UP for the deficit that the Bush Administration has "left behind", a curious phrase since the Bush Administration prided itself as the "born again" politico generation. This left behind quotient is the aggregate number that the eight years Bush Economics philosophy did not create in its governance or taking the total number of jobs created estimated to be a total of 2,950,000 jobs (shrunken by the estimated 2,670,000 job loss in 2008) and the failure to create the necessary other 11,500,000 jobs just to keep up with new entries into the job market due to population growth over the eight disastrous years. Their the first term the economy entered into a mild correction and then shuttered by 9/11 which took until the 4th quarter of 2004 to see any positive growth in the jobs arena. Then basically from 2005 to the final months of 2007 the US basically held even each quarter until the bottom fell out of the job market in 2008.

Actually it is believed that the U.S. economy must grow its jobs base by 1,800,000 annually just to incorporate the growing work force and that is expected to increase as a secondary new wave of mini-baby boomers (1987-1996) begin entering the market in the next few years while supposed retiring original baby boomers will likely seek to stay in the employment market due to a substantial loss in 2008 with their retirement savings and housing values.

So this stimulus package for all its imperfection must do this, make up for Bush's utter incompetence to the tune of 11,500,000 jobs (and possibly another 3,000,000 tacked on in 2009 as the Great Recession digs deeper) and also incorporate the expected growth of at least 17,000,000 through those eight years (hopefully).

Now a little historical comparison: Bush-43 created 2.95M jobs (maybe), Bill Clinton created 23.00M jobs, Bush-41 created 2.5M jobs, Reagan created 15.5M jobs, Carter 10.5M jobs, Nixon/Ford 11.5M jobs, JFK/LBJ 16M jobs and Eisenhower 3.5M jobs (with about half the population). Truman 8.7M and FDR is credited with a growth of 15.7M, (5.5M '33-'37, 3.3M '37-'41, 7.4M '41-'45). The issue with FDR was that he still did not make up the entire net job loss of Hoover until after 1940.

Right now I would take 23M jobs over the eight succeeding years but that is still short 7M jobs. Whomever is saying that FDR didn't bring us out of the Great Depression of any Republican Presidency knows about the economy is absolutely uninformed or plain stupid.