Would you like FREE MONEY?

Hey, I don't even NEED to really study the link provided in too much depth; sign me up! What is important is that I get the money NOW..... I don't care about tomorrow. Gimme, gimme, gimme. We can worry about all the other stuff later. Tommorrow never comes right? Let me get you my address so they know where to at first send my check and then reposses my house and all my belongings later...... One minute.....

There is no way that this would work. Look at the problems coming for Social Security... we are about to have more people drawing on it to the point that something has to be done in order to ensure the funds are even there. Yet this idiot is planning a massive welfare program payed for by the evil rich and the employers.... who probably will leave the country and go to a more tax friendly environment. We need to LOWER taxes... not RAISE them... and we need to drastically reduce spending. This proposal is going to make the economy worse instead of helping make it better. There is no free lunch, and if this idiot gets elected there won't be a country much longer either. What a moron!

Saviour-V teleports in... Frankly, I don't really know too much about US taxes and Obama's plans, but I do recall faintly that Robert Kiyosaki once predicted that the dollar would decrease, and it still is decreasing, in value as times go by. This plan does seem kind of fishy, although I can't put my finger on it. Whenever any government starts giving out free money, the best thing is to maintain vigilance. If it isn't too much to ask, redyellowblackdog, could you put up some calculations of how things are at this moment, VS Obama's plans? I think I might be able to form an opinion from a mathematical perspective if I see it from that angle. It might be easier if the numbers are put up for analysis. Saviour-V grins, and teleports out...

People fail to realize what socialism is. I think they are unaware that this is what he is trying to turn America in to. it is easy to give a speech and say what people want to hear, unfortunately that is what many of them will base their vote on. The big change many Americans need is having someone who will tell them the truth, they don't need more pretty packaging only to unwrap the present and find out it is just another pair of crummy socks.

Bush gave us all a stimulus check. Even those that get Social security for being disabe an do not work.

what kind of question is this pretty much everybody would want free money though I am sure there is a real nasty catch to it all.

I think every one like free money,but it is hard to get it.If any thing is free there will be some hidden agenda behind it.

There is no such thing as free money. Like everything wealth has to be created, tax credits is just taking from someone who created and giving to someone who did not. What Obama is talking about is not even a tax credit, even though he is using the word. A tax credit is like if I was to over pay on my electric bill, the extra would be applied to next months bill. To some of the people Obama is wanting to give a credit to do not pay taxes. Like you said free money, but the money still has to come from some where. Where is it going to come from, the taxpayers. Under Obama the top 50% will pay more, the bottom 50% will pay less, and get more back from the government. Now Obama I know you like speaking about fairness but how is that fair?

Well good, if Obama becomes president, I won't have to work anymore. I can just sit around on myLot all day every day and let the government take care of me. Will I be getting some of those fabulous billion dollar bills?

This plan goes way beyond fuzzy math to just plain stinkin' bad math. If implemented this plan would ruin our ecomony. It would drive those who put people to work out of business and keep a large percentage of the population who are presently down and out in welfare situations because there will be considerably less jobs(even moreso than now) to put them to work, and they will be able to get the FREE MONEY without any effort, not to mention destroying people's retirement funds, but, of course when they get old enough to retire they will be able to get FREE MONEY if they don't have anything left.

I would like free money but not in the expense of paying higher taxes.

Sign me up also! Wall Street Journal is a conservative paper with an agenda.

Well I guess everybody is always wanting a free money all the time because there is no effort on making it.Well If im american citizen I'll think about that..:-0 God bless and have a nice day

I am not a very political person but I do know, a lot of what they say when they are trying to win votes goes no where near the white house when they win

I didn't need to read that to know it was a bad idea but boy it really put things into prospective. As I've been saying how one earth was this suppose to help our economy? I'm with you that the stimulation checks were a bad idea that put our nation further into debt, but I took mine and put it toward my existing bills. Not buying a new big screen tv like my friend who complains she never has any money did. I'm sick of supporting the lazy. Right next door to me is two of them living off the system. They come and go at all sorts of odd times of the day and night. This morning the woke me up at 4 am. The one collects disability and they seem to always have packages when they come home and the best of things. They spend their days carefree. And we're going to give these people more and influence more to become just like them? How on earth is anyone going to have a job if you put so much strain on those giving them? Does Obama want us all on welfare. I'm sorry, I actually prefer to work for a living. I've overcome my health problems and do all I can not to get that sort of assistance. Only thing I've ever taken is when I was so sick I couldn't even walk I received emergency medicaid coverage for my medical bills. As it was for that I had to swollow my pride. But why would people work for a living if they work just for others to live off the system. People please think above yourself and have a little self respect. Obama is a man of Ambition who's plans stomp out the ambition of others, intentional or not. Man needs a reason to work towards their dreams and surpass their own expectations, but when would they build their strength when you hand them everything on a silver plater and punish those who have reached their own level of success? In the end we will all be punished because there won't be enough free money to go around.

I just got done reading the aforementioned article in the WSJ and I'm going to look for other on point articles in different publications to cross check it with. To be honest, since Murdoch took over the WSJ, I have my doubts about its veracity. I'm not saying it's fallacious, I just need to garner more info. If it stands up to my fact check, I'll be the first to scream bloody murder. I just have some doubts.