I believe that the bailout, while debated during the Bush Administration was actually approved during the Obama administration a day or two after his inauguration. And, as I recall, the auto bailout was, as all of Obama’s legislation has been, rushed through Congress with nominal discussion.

Secondly, while I will not disagree with your observation that social programs were pushed during Bush’s Presidency, the allocation of wealth from those programs does not match the allocation of wealth in President Obama’s programs, as I see them.

Bush’s program used unconstrained consumer debt, artificial appreciation of assets, misleading credit ratings and marketing of toxic assets as the cornerstone of his social program. The result was that the low- and middle-income strata of society developed a false sense of financial security while the upper-income strata realized real financial gain supported by government intervention when the economy collapsed.

Obama’s program seems to be intent on using Bushes catastrophe to justify the allocation of billions of dollars to social programs benefiting the lower income population at a tremendous expense to future generations by creating enormous national debt. He will not spend all the stimulus money up front because he needs to retain a large portion in order to continue manipulating a false recovery long enough to gain reelection.