by Vicki Phipps

Created on: February 10, 2009

I've been listening to the senate debates for days and I still don't know if the stimulus plan will work or become a curse. When they debate and ping-pong their views back and forth across my TV screen, they leave me confused. As easy as it seems to run the country from my living room, I must admit it. I don't have a clue of what we should do.

When I listen to a conservative republican, I think he's right, but then, just when I believe I'm convinced, a democrat will change my mind. It all depends on which view you look through and who you choose to believe at any given time.

Either way, the amount of money it takes to save the USA just blows both sides of my conservative and liberal mind. If you listen to the debates, I'm sure they blow your mind too and I have no doubt that you are confused, just like me and the rest of the country. It's just what politicians do. They confuse even the most intelligent human beings. They tend to have this serious need to be right all the time, even if their views make no sense in this day and time. You never know who's telling the truth, so the best way to discriminate between the two sides of being right or way off base, and which side is true and wise, compared to those who don't have a clue, is to look at the facts of the past, I assume.

If we do, there just might be a way to simplify and describe what 800 billion bucks, and then some, can do to improve the economy and our country too, or not. You see, some economists believe it will take at least a trillion dollars to save our hides and survive the economic demise. Why? I suppose it's like a shock doctors do to a heart that stops beating. They claim a ton of cash will shock the economy into working, but they also say we'll need to keep the blood flowing, or the beat of the economy will only stop again, and when that happens, nothing will ever shock the economy again. We'll be out of cash to change the fact that the economy can't work unless people work and spend what they earn.

So, who do you listen to and who tells the truth? We can't use Obama as an excuse since he inherited the mess left by Bush. Right? In fact, the last time we had a democrat president, as dumb as he might have been in some instances, he did give the economy a boost, along with the fact that we even had a bit of left over cash after the fact of balancing the budget. So, it seems that even a loony democrat can do that, but why can't the republicans do what even a young and dumb democrat did in the past?

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