The Bush Stimulus Package

Doesn't this just seem like the same-old same-old? I guess I am not the only one thinking this way. From today's Washington Post, Spend, Spend, Spend That Rebate? John Q. Public Just Isn't Buying It

But there, the ideal meets the real, for we have raced to a shopping plaza and found Aileen Blakely, a federal worker from Shirlington. "If it happens, and they give us the money," she says of the windfall that's supposed to be spent to save the economy, "I wouldn't go out and spend it."

Well, that's not quite what the president's economists have in mind. But that, it turns out, is precisely what Blakely and others say they'll do -- or not do.

"I would pay down what's left on the credit card from Christmas and see what is left on the college bill," Blakely says. "With all the brainpower in D.C., they can't come up with a better stimulus idea?"