Will work as well as the bank bailout. It will be just as effective as throwing it on a bonfire. Might as well, Our money is not worth the paper it's printed on. And the foreign countries soon will be pulling in their markers. People, the U.S. is broke and up over it's head in debt, has been ever since the Federal Reserve Note replaced the gold and silver standard. It's been fun..Now it's time to pay the piper.

Apparently the House bill was not big enough, so the Senate crafted a compromise which resulted in an even bigger spending package. Well, when this mega-bill goes to conference, the worthies in that conference will not allow themselves to be outdone. The bill will swell to over 1.5 trillion by acceptiing every thing in the House bill and everything in the Senate package. And all the Democrats and a few Republicans will pat themselves on the back for a job well done. One of these days, real legislators wil common sense will go to the House and the Senate with the intention of crafting good laws and spending the taxpayers money wisely. When that happens, we can eliminate these weasels from Congress.

Who are the idiots in government. If anyone is in debt and they borrow money for spending they only get more in debt. We The American People are in DEBT, which only grows. We need to stop spending money on the hopeless and the lazy, give the non-workers land and seed, and freedom to prosper. Cut all taxes that are opportunistic, which means that only government officials benefit. Some taxes ex. school taxes provide for educating our young, but land taxes only give money to government which it has not earned. A military tax on all citizens for a running military would include everyone. A solid flat tax based on that was guaranteed for 5 years with minimal increase after 5 years and new guarentee would provide security in coming years. Many policies and laws need to be removed, they are old and dumb. History needs to be studied the Constitution of the US gave people freedom. A modern government of selfish ingrates creates greed and fear.

jsamans, please stop waisting time looking backwards at errors which may very well been committed without any malicious intent. We are now faced with a very large problem which must be faced dispassionately. People are hurting, and will probably continue to be hurt for a long time. What needs to be done now is to enact measures which will do no further harm while turning the economy around so that our citizens can find relief and hope soonest.

If you only have a short time to consider something this massive, then the only responsible thing to do is vote NO!

Jsamans is a good example of the dems. Always bring up the war which in reality is a very very small part of this government's spending. All the dems know how to do is promise money to potential voters, those that for various reasons do not work. They promote class warfare! No bill this large should be forced on either party without appropriate time to read and question it! If jsamans wants to quote the CBO, why does the present administration not listen to what the CBO says?

You don't need a day and a half when their own Congressional Budget office is telling them that it will only make things worse. http://ewebsmith.com/Finance/betterstimulus.html

Congressman Pence is so funny. "Massive, unaccountable government spending" is good enough for him when it's borrowed money used to fight wars, but not when it's borrowed money used to help American citizens? That "any effective stimulus bill that's ever been passed by Congress in the recent past has been tax relief" is not because it is better, simply because Republicans have controlled Congress. Whether one wants to believe that the New Deal pulled us out of the Great Depression or that it was World War II, remember that either of those amounts to massive government spending. Cut taxes, cut taxes, cut taxes... that's all they say. Times are good? Cut taxes. Times are bad? Cut taxes. How about we just cut taxes for everyone to 1%? Since tax cuts raise so much revenue, I'm sure we'd have money money than we knew what to do with... right? There's no reason to give Republicans "time" to read this bill. They're going to vote against it, so let them do so and be done with it.