you know, Jonathan, I think it's not about the real economic effect but the perceived boost. i still think economic stimulus plans are stupid but really? i love 'em. spent my last one on a new bike to avoid spending money on gas & bus tickets, if i get another it'll go to paying debt.

sorry charlie....er, i mean jonathan, but any commentator that calls himself a economist and a democrat is just not credible to me. you people have your agenda and it is not for small business middle class people.....

Oh, and the Republicans are looking out for you... riiiight. Makes me wonder why big corporations and the ultra-wealthy are almost exclusively in the Republican tent.

Let's not forget that the Bush Tax Cuts benefited the top 5% of wage earners. The Republicans cut taxes and raised spending which is why we have out of control deficits.

Why should we trust the GOP with 4 more years of the same? Makes no sense to me....

Of course a new stimulus package will help the country. The people need all the help they can get. So what, if we pay off some debt we have had to accumulate BECAUSE of the bad economy. So what, if it goes to pay taxes owed. WE CERTAINLY WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SPEND "ANY
MONEY" UNTIL WE "PAID'' THOSE BILLS, NOW WOULD WE? With a little more INCOME, we can have a little more "outgo". That won't CURE the ails of our economy, but it won't HURT EITHER.

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Bravo, Anne. You said everything, I was thinking. Bring on the checks, pronto.

TAMMANY HALL AND THE OLD DALEY MACHINE USED TO BUY VOTES. NOTHING NEW TO DEMS. BUT THIS TIME THEY'RE TRYING TO BUY YOUR VOTE WITH YOUR OWN MONEY.

He plans on handing out Government checks every week TAX THE WORKING MAN and keep feeding the generations of welfare people who refuse to get off their ass and work ! Dummycraps !

Raising the hell out of the taxes on corporations and the wealthy business owners will not work, we get our jobs and buy our goods from the corporations and the wealthy business owners. If their taxes go up they pass it on in higher prices for goods and services. They also cut workers and if it gets to be too much they move their businesses to other countries. Obama should know this, if he doesn't he shouldn't be president. Raising taxes on capital gains is just as stupid. People will make run on banks to protect their profits. People will try to dump their stocks before the rates go up and there goes the market.

Boy, is he ever grasping at straws. Sure, give me a stimulus check and if you do make it to the White House you'll just tax me to death so I doubt it would be worth it.

I'm in the poor class and retired, I only got a $300. stimulus check the people that makes good money got $600. and don't need it as bad as the senior citizens do and of course the seniors get the least amount...if poor they really don't help the very poor on $300. we were the ones who fought for higher wages for our children and now are left out when we got cheaper wages when we were working, goverment stinks!

This time, I'd like to see this "stimulus" given to those of us who actually pay taxes rather than just those below a certain income level.
The last one was just a socialistic re-distribution of income. If you don't pay taxes, you're not entitled to a rebate; which this was clearly intended to be. This is Obama buying votes via a backdoor!

Where do you think the stimulus money is coming from? Sure, Obama thinks I'll give them a stimulus check and raise taxes to pay for it.

Where do you think the stimulus money is coming from? Sure, Obama
thinks I'll give them a stimulus check and raise taxes to pay for it.

if obama is behind this check its only brib money. he is scared of the republican party and pushing for another stimulus package is just a brib the american public to see is higher tax package as a mirage.obama is truely un american.to screw us with false hopes.

I'm all for more money. Who can't use it? I could use one every month thanks to our plummeted economy, my predatory mortgage company and the cost of gas and food sky-rocketing. This wouldn't make or break my decision on my vote, however. I honestly do not feel that our country can afford another republican president. I am in an ever-vanishing middle-class population and am struggling to keep up with the ever soaring utilities alone. In the past, our republican leaders have been the "rich man's" president. They have given so much of what we built (jobs) to other countries and we now purchase these commodities from them. We have become a shell of what we were economically as a nation. I fear for us, either way.

A second stimulus check would be wonderful, as long as they arrive in time for the Christmas shopping. Without them many kids will be waking up sad little boys and girls this year. Remember they're too young to understand the adult problems such as the economy. My 5 year old just can't wait for Santa to come.

Where does Obama plan to get this money? Borrow some more from the Chinese or add some taxes somewhere? He lets his Kenyan grandmother live without even a small tv and another relative live in a hut on $1.00 a month. If he doesn't care about them, why should he really care about your family? Oh, yeah, they can't vote here. If he gets in office, just wait...things will get much worse. Socialism does that.

I really do think that if they do give us more money it better be in the thousands not hundreds to get the people back on track for sure or it won't boost the economy at all because of to far in debt. for most people. It don't matter who get in or what they do sometimes candidates for office can promise you the world to get elected and then when they get in it is a different story then.

This is just buying vote with our tax money. How can anyone with a half a brain fall for this?