what a horrible "economic stimulis" plan....nobody ever learns from history.
hello, washington, look at your past! this has been tried before and people do not spend the money, either they pay-off credit cards(theyve already spent the money), or they save the money. rebates dont do s*** to "stimulate" the economy....and even if they did, we have a couple hundred TRILLION dollar economy in america...does anyone think that 150 billion is going to effect it much?
the only way possibel for it to have an effect would be through food stamps and extending unemployment benefits. both of those have returns of over a dollar and a half per dollar put in...both effect the people hit hardest by recesiion, both keep the money in america. another great idea is to invest all of it in infrasturcture. that creates jobs in america, buys american goods, and addresses an on going problem (poor infrastructure) that we are going to have to deal with in the future anyways. killing two birds with one stone on that one..
anyways...everybody in washington are (apparantly) idiots.