OR, is it you're just a whiny partisan hack who would be praising this if it came from a Democrat? "OH, shovel ready jobs for the workin' man! Finally something gubmit is doing to help the country!!"
https://www.mercatus.org/publication/us-experience-fiscal-stimulus
Stimulus through the decades
1953 under Dwight D. Eisenhower
1961 under John F. Kennedy
1969 under Richard Nixon
1974 under Gerald Ford
1977 under Jimmy Carter
1981 under Ronald Reagan
1989 under George H.W. Bush
1993 under Bill Clinton
2008 under George W. Bush
2009 under Barack Obama