Obama's Stimulus Bill Offers Help to the States

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i was wondering if there were any stimuluses for low icome people to help buy gifts for our children for christmas ? with everything going up in prices these days its hard to keep up with rent, gas money for work, lights heat ect and medical bills to get my children anything this year i do recieve foodstamps and two of my children are disabled so there is no extra money in my family foodstamps is barley enouf to buy us food for the month and my childrens ssi is just enough to cover our monthly bills i am a desperate mother and asking if there are any cash grants to help me with my children for chritmas this year it sure would help not only me but alot of other families like me out thank you..

misty cristello of NY 4:54PM November 20, 2009

I feel the government is not taking care of the american people, For years we have worked hard and paid taxes. Now our unemployment has ran out, we can't find jobs,, the government can afford to help other countries, meanwhile, we are loosing our homes and everything else we worked for. Help starts at home. Not other countries. I went to welfare office for help, never thought i would see the day i would do that. But because mykids are grown or i'm not 60 yet, or i am not disabled I can't get help. I was told my case worker ( oh well ur just be another 1 out of 300,000 homeless) After working 32 yrs at one job and loosing it.

marchelle foster of OH 2:00PM October 31, 2009

This is truly a recipe for a significant rise in crime of all sorts. I wouldn't be suprised if the prison buisness would be the next go to stock. Let's just see how many new prisons will be built in the next five years.

Mr. Harris of MI 7:18PM October 17, 2009

we love michelle and president obama but please can you consider helping low income families with stimulus or with rent clothes boots for children just something extra to catch up on bills and treat our children to nice warm clothing and shoesAND A HAPPY CHRISTMAS thankyou from ms, marian hill 13107419857 264 co rd 1245 vinemont alabama /marian hill 1215 logan st B cullman al 35055 thankyou I THANK GOD YOURE IN OFFICE MRS. MICHELLE OBAMA YOU ARE A GREAT REMODEL FOR ALL WOMEN YOURE STRONG AND BEAUTIFUL AND HEALTHY HAPPY YOU REACH OUT AND YOU ARE A GREAT MOTHER I TAPED THE SHOW OF YOU ON SESAME STREET YOU ARE GREAT.

MARIAN HILL of AL 3:34PM October 12, 2009

264 co rd 1245 vinemont al 35179 single mother 9 children needs lots of help with children clothes shoes boots bills holidays hospital bills times are severely hard for this family if anyone can help 13107419857 ms.marian hill stimulus really would of helped out bills with taxes the children really could of got nice clothes and shoes with stimulus if we would of got it this year for famililies the children need clothing and other things no father has ever been in the picture alone struggling no child support ever paid to help with children continue praying for this family and if you can adopt them for xmas her daughter has a two year son whose father died at age ninteen and because he never had a job social security says the two year old chilld will not recieve death benefits so they were denied the mother and grandmother sad that he died that the child cant recieve benefits and they need help can anyone reach out they need love

marian hill of AL 3:23PM October 12, 2009

I think that the economy sucks and it's even hard to get a job at Mcdonalds it's ridiculous how screwed up this economy is and I'm currently on my last extension myself!

Toussant Williamson of NJ 1:06PM September 25, 2009

I'M 47 YEARS OLD I'VE BEEN OUT OF WORK NOW FOR 18 MONTHS I NEED THIS EXENSION TO CONTINUE SO I CAN LIVE IN MY HOME . I ALSO HAVE PARKINSON'S DISEASE I.VE WAS THINKING ABOUT SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY BUT I WANT TO WORK IF POSSIBLE. I THINK THE GOVERMENT WILL DENIE ME.

ANTHONY of IL 5:33PM July 22, 2009

We give the rest of the world no reason to buy American. As a country, to the man and or woman we know the auto industry was way over paid ....everybody. Ted feds didn't care what the cost of the auo was because the more they cost the more tax revenue from uaw, afl/cio, and mgt from the big three.
Mr Kennedy in the early 60's declared he had to put a freeze on any increase in the price of steel. Why, simple the steel was not an automoble or a product purchased by any gov' agency as a finished product and the price effected the cars bought by all our different gov't agencies. Kennedy saw that were were in the end throws of the business cycle (econ 101) and leveled with the american consumer.
If we don't retake econ 101 we are not going to recover. The bean counters and Harvard mba's flunked econ 101 and flourish in spinning the truth for movers and shakers in other countries. We still have the Masabe Range and all the agrigite needed to start making steel and cheap dependable labor from Mexico. We bail out the auto worker pension, which he didn't pay for while making $34.00 an hour sweeping floors and ruin the $ because we we flunked econ 101.
Henry Ford say it and wanted out, but GM wouldn't buy decades ago and my guess was because of a greedy tax structure at that time from huge demand for the auto.
If the high rollers knew who owned the banking system in America they would put up for restructure and new car companies would emerge, but not without american made steel.
"I have to freeze the price of steel" JFK, a desperate statement, but telling his constituancy where we as a nation were. Only the Harvard mbAAAAA's decide to escolate costs for quick money and disappear.
Freedom, democracy, liberty deserve better and folding to an ungrateful european bunch will be the quitting and giving up and apathetic choice of poor leadership. No where is the last hurrah the direction we are going.
Harry Nagel,
concerned citizen

Harry Nagel of FL 12:36PM April 25, 2009

We need it!

Linda Wheeler of WA 8:25PM April 13, 2009

Does the President see these cries? Everyone is hurting. With all the money that was paid to the banks and mortgage companies, that should mean that we don't have to pay them too. Or does that mean they get paid double. The money that we are paying should go directly to the government and then distributed to help the people. Why let them collect and promise to pay the government. They just collect the money and pay themselves big bonuses to buy their big houses and fancy cars. They are the first to repo a family home when we can't pay, and they don't have any remorse or regret. Why should we feel sorry for them. I would like to speak for the hard working people who are paying all this interest and penalties to these big crooks, let's charge them the highest interest and penalties allowed by law. And if they can not pay, put all their belongings and families out on the street. Now that would be great NEWS!

rayala of TX 3:02PM April 10, 2009