Still happy about Stimulus Checks???????

"See, you are young, you can start over. Many of us can't. So we opt to increase the national debt and let the next generation (like you) deal with it." This is the problem with America, do you understand what this is pushing onto the next generations? And yes I understand,But start over? I have felt like I was starting over for a long time..do you know that my father was in the United States Navy for 21 years, and I never met him until I was 21? He had another family he was looking after, never did a thing, never called, I didn't have so much as a picture. I didn't even know his name. So I have been trying to figure out how I can go to school, and pay for that debt, considering my family does not have the money to do so. Nonetheless deal with the debt for stupid moves made by these leaders, other people elected to mess things up even more, when even my young self understood what these problems would cause. Interesting how the Republicans are bailing out big businesses....didn't Bush say he was against that? What about the family businesses that have been closing during the Bush Admin? I am sorry about all these retirement funds, etc etc. But why trust these companies in the first place? These CEO's who make how much? But you let them gamble with your money... That also has to do with the trust you put in a business, where you send your money. Maybe there are other changes needed. It's also condoning bad business practices and does nothing to correct the actual problem. Why aren't these CEO's being held responsible, I am sure they have some secure assets elsewhere... This money does not exist....that's the problem. You're not getting anything back, it's creating a horrible deficit and securing a financial disaster for the future.

I didn't get a stimulus check, I didn't want stimulus checks. It's stupidity. If people are pacified by something that is going to make things worse in the long run, I fear for America. At least you can admit you are selfish. The ones that don't, are running the country.

Actually, it's not quite the way you portray it as it is my generation already paying for the mistakes of the previous one that build this nice house of cards. See, it looked all nice and rosy under the Clinton administration, didn't it? Well, actually without the internet bubble that drove the stock market with all those new companies coming to bring us the nice innovations the computer made possible, we would have faced this dilemma back then already. Actually we did. Bush didn't take office until 2001, the market started crumbling in 1999. But even in the lovely 90's where we supposively deleted national debt we knew that social security was tremendously underfunded. Why, because the generations before us took money from there to fund their little projects. Well, the money won't be needed for a long time, right? Yeah, right. Since they saw a problem they thought, okay, let's start 401ks, IRAs, all those nice funds... more money into the already overvalued stock market. A disaster waiting to happen. Yes, the house of cards is coming down and yes, you can decide. Either let the older generation suffer. Hey they are old they can die. A bit ungrateful because they supported you when you were little. I know, you don't see that, it's the luxury of the youth, but it's true. No matter how bad your childhood there was somebody there to get you through it somehow, you got schooling and somehow funds for college, and yes, that's tax payers money. Somebody paid for the infrastructure long before you were born. Or you can support those people right now like they supported you and work on ways to avoid a disaster like this in the future. But let me tell you, as long as there are shelfish and greedy politicians with their own personal agenda, there won't be any change in the system. And I have yet to see one. None of the candidates currently running for president are in it for us, lol. As I see it, I can be shelfish myself right now and take the money and let the government bail us out any way they can. I agree, the stimulus check was a stupid idea but it pacified the masses and made them a bit more optimistic. Consumer outlook is also a great part of what drives the economy, btw. Doom and gloom does ruin an economy. I hope you didn't cash your stimulus check, that would be hypocritical now, wouldn't it? And even if the economy comes crashing down, I think you have no idea what you are facing in terms of starting over. An economical crash involves much more than tightening your belt. If the American economy should crash American won't be the same place anymore that you know now. There may even be civil unrest. With the current mood it wouldn't surprise me. You might want to carefully consider what you think should be thrown away. If the market forces are left to themselves right now, you might suffer much more than what you bargained for. Struggling to make it through college on your own is nothing compared to what you would face if push comes to fall.

Exactly. This money isn't even real!!!! People WAKE UP! It's this whole power-money facade and it's got to end. Thanks for your thoughts...I'd have to agree... Sorry, people bother me...I appreciate your comments :) EYES WIDE OPEN

Nice wording, "nothing to stimulate anything except to stimulate a public debt to grow even more." You are absolutely right. Sorry about the wife deal...at least you never spent it...we didn't get any, I tried to tell people not to spend it, but hey, a check comes in the mail, with your name on it, FROM the Government? Yeah, I guess it's hard to resist the temptation... What a shame..