Suppose I give someone one dollar. They take the dollar and stuff it under their mattress. A month goes by and the dollar is still under the mattress. Nothing has changed for that someone or for anyone else. Still, they have the dollar, so they feel well-off.
Now suppose I give someone a dollar, and within one day, they trade it for some goods or services. The next day, the person who now has the dollar trades it for some other goods or services. And so it goes, every day for the rest of the month. That one dollar passes from hand to hand, and goods and services flow in the other direction. This is a vibrant economy. The previous scenario is a stagnant economy where only one person has the money.
In our economy today, the rich — the bankers and financiers with their fat bonuses, the corporation with their hefty profits and huge cash reserves — are acting just like the first scenario above. They have their money in the mattress and are waiting for something — who knows what — to circulate it. This is why giving continued tax cuts and subsidies to the wealthy and the corporations will not create jobs or stimulate the economy. They will continue to sit on it, even though they have more of it.
No. The only way to grow the economy is to put more money in the hands of those who want to keep it moving, never mind that those people may see it differently — like buying food, clothes, housing, cars, gasoline, etc. to get on with their lives. Those who continue to demand that the wealthy and the corporations get all the money are killing the economy based on the absurd fantasy that giving more money to the wealthy will create jobs.