"What we've learned over the last 19, 20 months now of the Obama administration is that you cannot grow this economy, you can't stimulate the economy through government handouts. You've got to do it through the private sector." Dick Cheney
As Benen points out, the stimulus absolutely stimulated economic growth. So Cheney is lying again. Also, a third of the stimulus was spent on tax cuts -- which pumped money into the private sector, along with paying private sector contractors to take on government infrastructure projects and the like. Yeah. Whoops! There I go again, looking at reality when the Republicans deal in bumper sticker lies.