Economic Stimulus Money
I know very little about politics. I don’t like following as it is usually boring and pointless. Yeah a lot of people will argue that I should follow it because my one little vote will make a difference, but really, it won’t. Especially in the vote for the presidency. How many of you out there know that when you vote on that first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in a year when the President is up for election, that you aren’t actually voting for the president you want? Instead, you are voting for someone to vote for the President you want. This person may or may not actually vote for that person. Crazy right?
Anyway, I am getting off the topic I wanted to write about. Recently, the government (House of representatives, senate and our great President Bush [:rolls my eyes here:]), signed an economic stimulus package type bill. They did this to try to prevent the recession that already seems to have hit us. Now that people are getting their checks, is it helping the economy at all? I don’t think it is. The people who I know who have gotten it said it went straight to paying bills and not spending it like the government thought they would. I’m not positive but this isn’t directly or immediately helping the economy.
I’m not complaining about the free money (technically it’s not free since it is probably coming out of the tax money we pay anway), since I’m all for free money. But I’ll tell you up front right now that my check is going to pay bills too.
If they really wanted to help the economy, they should do something about the crashing housing market, the insanely ridiculous gas prices or the climbing unemployment rate. Sit down and really figure out what to do, not throw money at the people and hope it covers up a bad 8 year presidency and policies.