People still talk about the 2009 stimulus bill even though it was passed over a year ago. While it is still in the news almost every week, many people don’t seem to understand that it was there to give aid to large businesses as well as state governments. There was nothing in it for the average guy on the street.

The stimulus bill did create some new jobs and perhaps that was the best way to have benefited from it. There was also some aid to people who needed mortgage assistance but that was hard to qualify for. People continue to look for grants from the government hoping to find new ones that came about from the stimulus but there just aren’t any.

Even though the stimulus plan was passed over a year ago, people continue to find it tough going economically. The bill has done nothing to lower the unemployment rate and people are still as fearful today of losing their jobs as they were last year. This makes one wonder what was really accomplished with the 787 billion dollars that the US taxpayers now owe?

There is always a segment of the population that thinks the government just hands out money to the needy. This perception was only heightened by the check many families received from George Bush during his last term in office. That check was an attempt to spur on the economy but now people will forever be hoping to get another one of those checks in the mail from something like a stimulus bill.

People should know that there never has been anything that is really free money, as it has to be paid for in some way. It is too bad more people don’t pay taxes so that they can understand and feel the pain when taxes are raised. If higher taxes impacted everyone, more people would be opposed to them and maybe politicians would think twice before throwing away our tax dollars.

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