Thanks, Auzie and Familial for good reads.
Personally, I think the "war on fiscal stimulus" is a completely backwards notion, and is in fact very successful attempt to accelerate the already massively unbalanced redistribution of wealth from the poor to the rich at levels not seen since Feudalism was the order of the day. The Fed under Bernanke and Yellen has said repeatedly that they wish Congress had the cojones to undertake fiscal stimulus, because monetary stimulus is a blunt tool that is imprecise and has unproven effectiveness in actual job creation. But the Fed will act if Congress won't, and it has. Which inflates asset prices. Which benefits those who hold the most capital. Which is not working Americans.
The greatest fiscal stimulus in our history was the New Deal, and it worked. Period. Though the WPA and CCC were lambasted for hiring the poor and destitute to sweep parks that didn't need sweeping, at least it gave people a job, and these and other public infrastructure projects laid the groundwork for 50 years of American Prosperity. I still think we need a New New Deal, but I'm in the minority. Just me and Paul Krugman sittin' alone out in left field, basically. And the ghost of Keynes.