We avoided a depression with this deal, we are still in a recession, but I know by the end of this year, we will be out of this mess and focus on reforming health care and other objectives.

Please America don't tell me you are so sound bite oriented that you fall for this Republican ignorance.

Obama was clear from the beginning. We got here over a period of decades. It is going to take a while to heal.

Can you just imagine where we could have been with McCain and Palin right now!

Soup lines and a third War..

Sorry Barry, you own it, you passed it and you BLEEPED it up all on your own.

You STIMULATE the economy by giving TAX PAYERS money back to spend and giving SMALL businesses tax credits for expanding and hiring and you did neither you loser.

All you can do is run your mouth WITH A TELEPROMPTER, you can't run anything else.

Four and the door Barry.

"NO NO NO NO NO WAAAAAAA NO NO NO NO NO WAAAAAAA"

Although some of us tried to say it, you cannot improve the economy by recycling money. The only way to do it is by creating wealth, and that comes from private enterprise and not the government. Had Mr. Obama invested this money in tax breaks for small businesses and consumers, moore goods could be produced because the businesses would have more money to make them and more goods would be purchased because consumers would have more money to buy them. In order to create jobs, money must be invested unto folks that are already working so they can buy more goods, and the demand for more goods equals the need for more workers. For the government to invest publically to create jobs is simply not going to work because no wealth is being created.

This stuff is really simple, but we have allowed politics to create a backwards system based upon trillions in spending that will never be paid. I hope our future generation is comfortable being Chineese.

That is exactly the problem. As the republicans were saying during the ramrod through congress, the stimulus plan wasn't designed as a stimulus bill, it was designed as a pork bill with what little stimulus was in the bill coming too little, too late. The republicans argued that money for jobs should have been front end loaded, the democrats wanted the pork in the front end. So Obama is right, it has worked as intended, which is poorly.

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It has??? Unemployment continues to rise, state budgets (California, Pennsylvania, etc.) continue to be in total disarray, prices are soaring. How has the stimulus package helped, other than to continually provide bonuses for government employees?

Change – I think not!

Now its falling back to saving firmen, policemen and teachers jobs and at that the number they quote and can't even verify is 150,000. He just could figure out how to through the Senior Citizens into the pot.

What happens next year when the states don't have the federal bailout money to balance their budgets?

This stimulous is a joke and sadly so is Mr. Obama along with Harry Reid and stupid Nancy Palosi.

Obama intended unemployment to hit 10%? Gee, that's not what he said when trying to convince people that his imbecilic notion to waste a trillion bucks was actually a good idea.

“As a result of the swift and aggressive action we took in the first few months of this year, we’ve been able to pull our financial system and our economy back from the brink.” The brink of what? An even worse disaster? Yeah, right... But I agree it was "swift action." So swift that the members of Congress being strong-armed into passing this idiocy were given, what?, three hours to read a 1300 page document that guaranteed decades of inflation and debt.

In Saturday’s address, Obama also responds to critics who believe the $787 billion bill is not sufficient to turn around the economy and who are, therefore, pushing for another stimulus package.

So having gotten a good start on ruining the American economy, and mortgaging our kids' futures in the process, Obama wants to finish off the country completely. This man needs to be stopped. Now.

So how are we to have any confidence you're reading it correctly now?

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

-Albert Einstein

The economy is probably going to turn around but only when almost all the stimulus is spread to the people and small business…which will probably be around November of 2010 just in time for the midterm elections. Meanwhile, Americans are still suffering now. The idea of the plan was good, but the implementation has been horrible. Not well planned, and not well executed.

I voted for the President, but will not do so again. His execution of this plan as our chief executive has left much to be desired. While the Democrats in Congress and the President will claim victory for this when it takes full effect, the people will have needlessly suffered from the political greed that they thought they rejected last November.

It was no less than little Mikey Steele the head of the RNC that stated "bi-partisanship is over-rated".

Ignore the "pure" party of redneck "christians", and show them that we Dems now agree!

The Party of No only gets so many chances before the majority gets to completely ignore the temper tantrums with no substance!

Obama is a FAILURE. Wake up America.