Robert Samuelson Didn't Hear About the Stimulus

That what readers of his column calling President Obama a "distributionalist" and Governor Romney an "expansionist" must have concluded. Samuelson tells readers:

"By 'distributionalist,' I mean that Obama sees government as an instrument to promote economic and social justice by redistributing the bounty of a wealthy society. Economic growth is not ignored but tends to be taken for granted or treated as a less important priority. How else, for example, to explain Obama’s decision to push the...