President Obama’s speech to a union crowd on Labour Day was an election-campaign event, more about politics than economics. He stirred his audience with a paean to organised labour, and fumed about the negativism of his Republican opponents: “They talk about me like a dog,” he said. He did call for $50bn of new spending on infrastructure, but spread over many years and “fully paid for” (how was not explained). This was not a stimulus proposal, and its chance of Congressional approval is anyway zero.
9月6日勞動節那天，美國總統奧巴馬(Obama)對一群工會組織所做的演講就像是一場競選活動，談論的政治問題多于經濟。他用一支寫給勞工組織的贊歌調動起聽眾的情緒，并怒斥共和黨對手們的消極否定態度，“他們把我說得像條狗，”他說。他的確提議增加500億美元的基礎設施支出，但此筆開支將分多年撥付，且“資金來源能得到了全面保證”（但他沒有解釋如何做到這一點）。這不是一份有關刺激措施的提案，而且獲得國會通過的幾率為零。
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