Sticking your head in the sand will cure the ecomony?

I think it's crazy how everybody blames everything on the president. One man did not create the economic crisis and one man isn't going to be able to fix it. When Obama was campaigning he didn't say yes I can he sad yes we can. A lot of people voted for him but for some reason they didn't really get the message. The economic stimulus can work if people are willing to learn from their past mistakes and do things that benefit everybody and not just themselves. So far it doesn't seem as if things have gotten bad enough for people to do that yet.

Good luck trying to get people to stop criticizing and start helping. :-) That was my rally-cry for the past 8 years. People were intent that yelling, cursing, insulting, pointing the finger at, and wanting to impeach Bush would make the world's troubles disappear. The more things change... I don't know anything about the head in the sand stuff, but I will take your word for it. People I know around my area are genuinely scared that America attempting to spend its way out of a financial problem will worsen the problem. However, as worried as we are, we hope and pray and beg and plead that America will bounce back. When it comes down to it, most people (not the loonies, obviously) put aside their political affiliation and hope for America's best. A little criticism now and again never hurt anybody. :-) I just hope people don't go overboard and resort to racial slurs and things of that nature. I don't want that stuff around me or in my country.

it will take more than four years to turn the ecomony around, let's just help that Americans can work together to do it.

when the head of the former soviet union is telling Obama that socialism doesn't work and to not go down that road - maybe he's talking from experience?

The problem is that the people who complain the most (not all but most of them) are either people who sit on their a$$es and do nothing, absolutely nothing to help anyone, and I personally know some of them who do not even vote, or are part of the problem. Take, for example, the environment. They will complain about the cost of this, the air, the water, yada, yada, yada, yet they will not recycle, not stop using harsh chemicals for their gardening, cleaning, will not turn off their lights, stop using gas guzzling autos, or at least try to curtail their use, etc. Now that is just one of many examples. It reminds me of the armchair athletes who could not even compete with a fiver year old in a sport who yell at the players and tell them how bad they play, yada, yada, yada. It makes me sick! It goes back to the Serenity Prayer basics that if you can make a change, be a part of it, if you cannot, then shut up. This man, Obama, is the first president that I have ever seen who started working the day he won to get his programs running. He has the best interests of the US at heart and will I ever agree with everything any president will do? NO!! I will never agree with ANYONE 100%. To put yourself out there, in this type of job, to try and fix the mess that last admin has left, it an incredibly, enormous task. Even so, all the presidents, good or bad, are still good Americans and men and all the crap that is going around to try and find bad in this guy is failing. They cannot find that he cheated on stuff (including his wife), and how many presidents came to the office with a clear name? It is few and far between. I dare anyone out there to try to do what he is trying to do, even on a local level. I am friends with local politicians who have the same type of problems on a local level who say that they cannot even imagine the job of being president and that like Lincoln, who took over a country being torn apart, he has so much on his plate, yet he carries it with conviction and grace. He refuses to be anything but a gentleman but yet he is staunch on doing all that he can to fix the problems. The problems took years to happen and will not take months to fix. He may not even be able to get it all fixed in four years but he is moving at warp speed to get things moving. No one, no matter what you say, can convince me otherwise, so do your best but it will fall on deaf ears. I know better.

We need changeee.

I hope that all the money that's getting thrown at this economic mess does work. My husband works in construction (plumber) and his business has dwindled to practically nothing. I honestly figured that since we live outside New Orleans that we would have tons of work for years with the rebuilding effort. Boy I was wrong. How many defaults will these companies withstand? Many of them put themselves into this mess in the first place. Also, another beef with me, oil companies (any oil company just pick one) who makes billions of dollars of profit each year while they were charging us poor saps $4.00+ a gallon for gas, what's up with that? But the lobbyists get there hands on politicians so nothing is ever really done. They parade them up in front of a panel and they sing and dance then it's over. The trickle down effect is staggering and that I hope this stimulus fixes. It's a vicious circle that I think is getting fueled even more by the media so I don't watch national news anymore. I do worry that once this money will get into their hands its going to be abused by politicians doing favors for whoever contributed the most to their campaign and my children will still be paying for this when they grow up. Let's hope that won't happen but you are talking about POLITICIANS and no matter what party they're with they'll stick it to the little man! In fact, its a shame that Obama has to have a meeting of mayors and tell them to not waste this money. I think that is a sad state of affairs that he even had to say that to these people at all.

Yeah you're right

Confidence can overcome the recession . Only the market recover the confidence ,can we again boom !