Democrats argued that through gigantic deficit spending, they could bring unemployment rates down sharply and produce a "summer of recovery".
Whenever the deputy prime minister pops up to bluster about the Stetson and cowboy boots thrust on him by Philip Anschutz, the billionaire who wants to turn the Millennium Dome into Britain's first super-casino, he reminds people that until recently he was running gigantic departments spending billions of pounds.
In any event, even today the building budget is gigantic: construction-related spending has comfortably exceeded the budget of the American Defence Department in recent years, and about 10% of Japan's workforce, some 6m people, still derive their jobs from it, far more than in other rich countries.
Like the elusive, gigantic wave surfers spend their lives hunting for, the new wave was a spectacular, once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon that would have no sequel.
The Prison Reform Trust said it would be a "gigantic mistake" to spend money on a series of super-sized jails.
The government might spent gigantic amounts of money irresponsibly and put the country many trillions of dollars into debt.
New owners took over in 2005 after the company had increased its debt through expansion and spending on gigantic roller coasters.
Analysts concur that Samsung's days of dominating the market by blanketing it with gigantic advertising and marketing spending – which includes payments to sales staff in phone stores – are over.
Funding for intelligent transportation systems stands a decent chance of more than doubling to $3.7 billion when Congress gets around to passing a gigantic highway and transportation spending bill.
Mobile was still getting bigger and bigger, and networks - having spent a gigantic £22bn on 3G licenses back at the turn of the century - were finally getting ready to launch their own high speed mobile data networks - but they weren't necessarily too keen on the idea.
