Stimulus Bill passes

United States
February 10, 2009 11:56am CST
Well all the hoop la is over. The bill just got passed. For better or worse (worse I feel) we are now stuck with it. What do you think? Will it help? Will it make things worse? Will it do nothing but waste money.
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@missybal (4489)
• United States
12 Feb 09
Not going to help me either. It's just going to be a waste of money that later my taxes will be raised in order to pay it all back plus interest. It will help a few people for a short period of time in some areas but it won't last long what little good it does and we will see Washington passing another senseless trillion dollar bill in the future I'm sure.
@jonesy123 (3948)
• United States
10 Feb 09
It won't help. We might as well just burn the money. We won't really see a benefit of it. People will hold on to their wallets even tighter as states now start to increase their taxes. There went the $500 to $1000 tax cut. Infrastructure projects... just looking at my town, since things have to be ready to be started in 180 days they'll fund projects with their share of the pie that have already been budgeted for, or go for frivolous stuff. I don't see much benefit there, except that maybe a rate increase might be delayed for water and sewage... except we have already started paying it, so no dice there. Only the recipients of the 'pork' will be happy. We on the other hand need to start saving now, because at one point we'll have to pay for all of this. Yep, so much for change...
@gewcew23 (8007)
• United States
10 Feb 09
Oh yeah what a great day this is, those 500 million jobs are finally saved :-} What do I think, election have consequence. Will it help, no how can it? Will it make things worse, I am sure it will. Will it do nothing but waste our money, you better believe it. The thing I find interesting about this whole event is those eleven House Democrats are more fiscally conservative than those three Republican Senators. Without those three turn coat Republican Senators this spending bill would not have passed.
@ljbinkop (744)
• United States
10 Feb 09
Nope, I don't think it will help, and I am sad that it passed, but not surprised. I think it is all about building up big government, and forgetting about the middle class like me. Private businesses are going out of business all over, and now who do we think is going to pay for this nonsense?