So argues economics professor George Reisman in this rather lengthy article.

If you want to be really well versed in the economics of recession and recovery, this is worth your time.

If your economic objective is rising production, that requires increasing capital investment — the precise opposite of what the Obama plan does. So maybe rising production is not his objective, despite all the talk about economic strength. Maybe the real objective is something else, like turning the US into a big version of Sweden.