The article "Trade-off in the Stimulus Package" by Madison Powers appeared in CQ today and was directed toward the american people. It was created to inform all of the american people about the collapsing economy and how this stimulus might help save it.
For weeks now The governemnt and president Obama have been talking about how this stimulus package will help revive the troubling economy and help us out of the mess that we are in. This article talks about all the pros and cons of the stimulus package and i kind of agree with it. The stimulus package is both a good and bad idea for the economy, on the pro side it will help out the american people by giving them a few extra tax dollars to spend on businesses and in the economy, but on the other hand it also doesn't help that they are not spending some money on some of the things that should be spent on. I feel that they should put the stimulus money to good use such as helping out the education system and puting it toward small busineses in order to help out in this time of need and create some more jobs. If you give the people back a few extra dollars they are probably not going to put it towards very good use. That's why we should also use the money towards something useful such as creating more jobs.
In conclusion, The government should not spend all of the money on one big thing as a whole. if we are going to spend that kind of money, then we should work on spending it towards useful things. They should also not view this problem as one big fix, the government should use the money towards all of the little problems because in the end a quick fix isn't always the right way. If we were to focus our attention towards smaller parts then it would be beter for the country in the long run.
