Thanks, Michelle. Well, you have to give credit to O where it is due: he rates tops in hubris and arrogance.

I'm quoting -"Obama warns of catastrophe if stimulus delayed! Obama urged members of Congress "to act without delay" while also promising to "work to make it stronger." WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS 'SCARE TACTIC' APPROACH? Politicians seem to stop at 'nothing' to steal Taxpayers money. IT'S TIME TO STOP THE 'SCARE TACTICS' BEING USED ON THE AMERICAN TAXPAYERS! JUST THINK, ONLY 40% working, paying Taxes, that have a job at present, 20% retired, the OTHER 40% living off social and welfare programs, never worked and don't intend to. The figures no longer add up for the high dollar politician's salaries and retirements. The 'tax & spenders' sold Americans' jobs, and 'GUESS WHAT, FOLKS, THERE AIN'T NO MORE MONEY!' It's time to cut politicians salaries and retirements to $12,000.00 year, pay off trillions of debt to foreign countries they sold America to. Incidentally, if Obama and the rest of the tax & spenders were so worried about the economy, why would they take high-dollar vacations, ride around in high dollar gas guzzlers with armed guards, stay/and or live in the most exclusive places, and 'rob' the few Taxpayers, that still have jobs at present, until they don't have enough money to pay their mortgages, let alone buy the necessities for their own families? GOES TO SHOW TAXPAYERS THEY ALL HAVE THEIR 'HANDS IN THE TIL' AND THAT 'NO ONES' BEEN CHECKING BEHIND ALL THESE 'FAT CATS' IN POLITICS WHO'S GETTING ALL THE EXTRAS FROM LARGE CORPORATIONS WANTING BAILOUTS AND HANDOUTS, AND NOW, AMERICA IS FACED WITH NOT BEING ABLE TO PAY THE INTEREST ON THE TRILLION DOLLAR NOTES THESE IGNORANT 'FAT CATS' BORROWED FOR THEMSELVES, WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF TAXPAYERS, AND THEY'RE NOW USING 'SCARE TACTICS' ON THE TAXPAYERS, SO THEY CAN 'STIMULATE' THEIR OWN DEEP POCKETS!' AMAZING? TAXPAYERS SAY '"KEEP 'GITMO' AS THESE 'FAT CATS' SHOULD BE CALLING THIS PRISON HOME!"

A well written and educational piece Michelle. Too bad those who read it will not have enough horse power to do anything about it. Anyone with cash that I know is fleeing the USA for places well off-shore. Working here (USA) for $7 bucks an hour with zero benefits, zero incentives, and zero savings, I do all I can and I pray the stimulus goes thru the SAC (Socialist American Congress) quickly so I can buy some ammunition! I may need it!

Re: Shirley deLong;...What does that mean ma'am; that there ain't no more money???Isn't an economic system supposed to be a system???Look at the electrical system in your car...You have a positive and negative terminals off of your battery...If you flip a switch it lets that current flow in a circle, a circuit....What we have here is a non circuit circuit.... The money has flown to the rich, and it may have flown over seas, but it is not returned to the public at any point... The public needs both to produce value, and be able to buy it back...They cannot...Wages are depressed so low that many working people do not even pay income tax; and rather than that being a source of mercy for them, or pity, it is a cause of contumely...No one with wages alone can buy back all that he produces...Even the world, with capitalism, cannot buy back all that it produces... The rich being fed made money cannot buy up all that the working people produce.... Sooner  or later they end up with all they can hold, and all that they need, and so for a while the game is over...They lay off all those people they find unnecessary... They let their businesses fall idle, and feed on themselves until the ranks of the poor swell with formerly well off people...Cartainly you are right: The poor have no  money...If they are planning on putting the cost of this rejuvinated economy on the backs of the working people, then it better be one hell of a recovery...Don't count on it....Don't count on there being any kind of recovery if the government cannot find the courage to tax the rich, and redistribute wealth...It should never have let things get so far out of hand...It should never have let the rich get so rich, or the poor get so poor.... It should never have let our productive capacity get spread all over the globe...It can only begin to correct mistakes it has made for years... But over your dead body... You seem to want to blame the poor for their poverty...You equate poverty with moral defect...What if it is the other way around, that it is the rich who are moral defects, and even people like you, who sit on your advantage while people in want die....What does your Bible say about rich people getting into heaven???Or does your Calvinism explain that all away as fate??? No; this is a land that denies fate... We are not fated to be poor, and they are not fated to be rich...Hopefully we are fated to make a nation of this place... Hopefully we are fated to be able to live together as rich and poor without anyone suffering too much the extremes of either position...Hopefully we can understand that every economy is a system with a free flow of values that never get too constipated to do anyone any good...Thanks...Sweney