Quote Originally Posted by 5thHorseMan
The government will not be rebuilding the roads and bridges though, it will be financing contracts, which will be given to private companies to fill. These are not government workers, they are in the private sector, working on a government project.
This only changes how effective the workers will be, the rest still holds true. Explain how taking trillions of dollars from taxpayers to bailout companies and "stimulate" the economy can work.

Quote Originally Posted by 5thHorseMan
And how exactly is the current problem caused by too much government control, from everything I've seen, the problem was bankers and investors making decisions about things they hardly understand at all, misleading the SEC, and massive de-regulation, giving these people more authority than they warranted.
It was from too much free money. The Fed artificially lowered interest rates which gave the bankers all the alcohol to get drunk on. They made loans, sometimes backed by the government, to people who did not deserve these loans. In the case of Fannie and Freddie, they were forced to give out loans to almost everyone who didn't deserve one. This crisis would have already ended if we didn't have the Federal Reserve. The banks failing would set the precedent to not try to do the same things they did in the future.