The Stimulus Package needed to be larger not smaller

In an article in the October 25, 2010 issue of Newsweek by Ezra Klein called, "Circle of Trust: Obama Needs Some New Blood,"(p. 24)  Klein states that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the Stimulus Package) was a good and necessary idea which worked. It saved the United States from bankruptcy.

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/10/16/klein-obama-needs-new-voices.html

But, contrary to the sustained din of opposition to the Stimulus Package, according to Klein it was also not enough. The 10% unemployment is a result not of reckless spending by the Obama administration, but because not enough financial resources were allocated by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. And the reason there was not enough was because of Republican resistance and obstruction. In other words, as I have suspected one cannot right a ship that has severe leaks before fixing those leaks. And you can't fix those leaks free of charge or for too little money. The national debt has to be increased in the short term to insure that the economy is made healthy again in the long term. So even though the Republicans and the Tea Party are angrily rallying against the spending in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, that very obstruction is what has largely caused the unemployment that they are accusing the government of not improving; it is "passing the buck." In other words, the irony is that the very thing that people want (jobs, employment) is being stymied by their own refusal to allow the federal government to spend the necessary money to create the jobs they want. They are fearful of the myth that a government that spends money in the short term, even if it's for the long term gain of its citizens, is only a reckless, oppressive, and controlling government. As I have written before, like Glen Beck's reaction to distrusting nearly everyone who runs for public office, this thinking verges on paranoia. It's also operating primarily out of fear which is never productive or healthy. Congratulations to Ezra Klein for the clarification.