Is a Second Stimulus Package on the Way?

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SPEAK FOR YOURSELF ,I COULD USE 600-1500 dollars and it would go toward mortgage,food in the freezer, my children.

d.cobbs of VA 7:54PM July 27, 2009

SPEAK FOR YOURSELF ,I COULD USE 600-1500 dollars and it would go toward mortgage,food in the freezer, my children.

d.cobbs of VA 7:43PM July 27, 2009

I have many friends and family that are looking to work anywhere here in NE Ohio, the job market isnt here for them. Some of them have been out of work for almost 2 years. We help the best we can to make their lives easier but we can only do so much. A second stimulus would allow extended time for the job market to open up as promised. If not, where are they going to get the money to feed the family? Pay the mortgage or rent? We are such a giving country and have been for years and years.......please let's fix our own problems in the US before handing out to other countries, we need back on our feet first to be the strong country we are.

Melissa Hartshorn of OH 7:19PM July 23, 2009

AND THIS IS WHY THE SO CALLED UNITED STATES LIKE TO GIVE ALL THIS MONEY TO OTHER COUNTRIES.WHY THE POOR RIGHT HERE IN THE UNITED STATES ARE OUT ON THE STREETS WATCHING THEIR KIDS STARVE.OK WHY THE GOVERMENT JUST PRINT UP MORE MONEY TO PUT THE UNITED STATE BACK TO WERE IT BELONGS.

JODY of MA 2:02PM July 20, 2009

i think that having another bailout, would not be doing any bailingout. instead people see all that extra cash in hand and make quick decisions like, o the tv broke time for another, or im hungry lets go out for dinner. consuming gas so your burning cash twice in that day wasting gas on driving for no reason and eating out instaed of a home cooked meal. i dont like the fact that many americans now a days are laying back just because the government is throwing money at us. it only makes us lazy and in the end its making us weaker.

daddy yankee of TX 8:37AM July 16, 2009

If running up my personal debt to an unsustainable amount in an effort to improve my over-all outlook is a bad idea, why is it a good idea for the country?
Have they completely forgotten that this money that they are borrowing needs to be repaid?
$400,000,000,000 (That's $400 billion) in interest payments per year alone is insane and there is no way short of a miracle that it is going away - regardless of what the teleprompter says.

David of WA 3:40AM July 15, 2009

We must give enough time for the current stimulus to take effect before we are start drafting a new one. A recovery takes time—it won't happen over night!

Jessie of HI 3:34PM July 14, 2009

It only makes since that if the 1st stimulus package was good for the economy then a stimulus package 10 times bigger would be 10 times better and 10 times faster at making a recovery.
All these stimulus packages are doing is extending the recession and putting the debt on the grandkids.

~Vic~ of CA 12:00PM July 14, 2009