Unfortunately, Congress has come to see all of these trillions of dollars committed to Wall Street as a barrier to spending more on Mainstreet.
Soros said in Davos that the recovery from the worst recession since the second world war was "incomplete", but that fear about sovereign country debt was a barrier to spending designed to boost growth.
With interest rates at extraordinarily low levels and no signs of inflation anywhere in sight, there is no economic barrier to spending in these and other areas.
This president has been the first one to throw aside the public funding program to break all those barriers and to spend massively more than any president in history".
Mr. Greenspan, in testimony before a Senate committee, said uncertainties created by possible war with Iraq posed "formidable barriers" to business spending and clouded the economic outlook.
This is the first presidential election since the Supreme Court's decision in the Citizens United case removed the last barriers to campaign spending by corporations and other groups.
Advocacy nonprofits have existed for decades, but they received increased scrutiny after the Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United case in 2010, which lowered barriers to corporate spending on political campaigns.
Concerned that down payments were a barrier, Mr. Bush persuaded Congress to spend up to $200 million a year to help first-time buyers with down payments and closing costs.
Four years ago, the Albany gang's barriers forced the insurgent Steve Forbes to spend $1.8 million to get on the ballot.
On the national level, Democrats trying to break the cultural barriers say that Mr. Kerry needs to spend less time in the reconstructed 15th-century European barn that he and his wife own in Sun Valley, Idaho, and more time shooting sporting clays, as he did during a visit to a gun club on a recent swing through the upper Midwest.
