anniversary. when the president signed it into law he made pretty big promises about what it would do. one of them his economic team predicted that unemployment by february 2012 would be about 6%. right now it s more than 2 points higher than that though trend nothing a better direction these days. it s certainly far higher than predicted back then. republicans also taking aim at the price tag as you noticed. congressman lee terry suggested today that a lot of money has been wasted on projects like solyndra. take a listen. well it failed to stimulate the economy because it was more about supporting your political friends and public entities that supported you than it was really about stimulating the economy. reporter: the push back from white house officials is that the bottom line is we were on the edge of a cliff in february of 2009 ready to fall into abyss, maybe a second great depression and this stimulus law