George Will uses his latest Newsweek column to point out the pointlessness of most government economic stimulus packages:

Often, the wise response to an economic correction is “Don’t just do
something, stand there,” because the market is doing the right things.
But corrections provoke political competition to provide relief. And
when government “fine-tunes” the economy with “demand management,” it
responds to economic conditions as they were, not as they have become.
The ameliorative measures Congress will legislate, perhaps by March,
will be responsive to economic conditions indicated by statistics
collected many months before the measures will begin to affect economic
behavior, if they do affect it.