1.   It provides more than twice as much tax relief for business as it does for individuals, which is the opposite of how a stimulus effort should be designed.

2.   The national government has run up a huge budget deficit paying for these market stimulus efforts, which have failed to spark a sustainable recovery.

3.   They point out that government has spent aggressively in stimulus efforts in the last few months, with little success.

4.   With no major economy in a position to lead, it could take a while for the economic stimulus efforts to have an impact.

5.   And like previous failed stimulus efforts, most of the money ended up being dealt out as political pork in the form of public works projects.