The latest explanation for the continued high unemployment and sluggish economic growth in the world of Obama “stimulus” goes something like this. “It has taken eight years to get us into this mess, it is going to take us more than 19 months to get us out of it.”? My question is, assuming the premise is correct, what is the economic basis for for the argument that there is a proportional relationship between the amount of time it takes to get into a recession and the amount of time it takes to get out it. As far as I can tell, the Obama excuse is simply a non sequitur.?