We also tried massive central planning before, and we weren't able to fully get out of the Great Depression until the late 40's/early 50's. Besides, they're not pouring money into the economy. They're pouring money in the vacuum that has become the financial sector (now we see the real cost of "affordable housing") while using the economic turmoil as an excuse to shove through the largest federal power consolidation and entitlement expansion in US history with promises of equally massive tax hikes/inflation to come. It's pretty awful all around.

