The stimulus packages could never have worked

Tarp, stimulus packages, bailouts, did not work.

Here's is a situation to help illustrate why.

Suppose your country is a hundred acres of land, a large field that had tall, green, grass.  The field is now brown, withering and wilted, all of it.  The entire field needs water. (We won't go into the governmental decisions that caused this.)

A government stimulus program is proposed and enacted.  The administration arrives with a large water truck. A large bucket full of water (i.e. taxpayer dollars) is filled and carried out into the field, then dumped on a location as specified by the program.  Another bucket is delivered to a different spot.  More water is drawn from the truck, more individual locations are soaked.  The grass in those spots turns green.  The reports are positive on the effectiveness of the program. 

What happens to the water dumped on each spot?  Some is splashed away, droplets too small and dispersed to have any effect.  The single large amount from the bucket soaks into the underground.  Water pools on the surface and will evaporate away.

When the truck has no more water it is seen that the green spots are not viewable when looking over the acreage. The green is insignificant compared to the size of the entire field.  Unless another stimulus truck is approved, the insignificant green will turn back to brown.

Where did the water in the truck come from?  We have none. The water was borrowed from China.  The field is once again all brown, and we owe a truck full of water to China.


In this scenario what description do we have for the tea party view, the conservative view, that instead of stimulus programs we need to cut taxes? 

That description is this: a constant sky full of rain.  The water comes from the entire country, and returns to it.