The Government Is Out Of Control With Our Money

The 2009 stimulus bill had no special grants in it that were aimed at regular people. This is something that many people still fail to understand today: that there just wasn’t any money in that bill for individual people. It all went to government agencies and big businesses.

If you are a person that needed help, one of your only options for benefiting from the bill was to get a job that came about as a result of the stimulus. It is also possible that you could have gotten some form of mortgage assistance as well but that didn’t apply to too many people. The bill did not impact government grants even though many people continue to look for grants thinking there are more of them available than usual.

People are still trying to find ways to make money, get jobs, and make ends meet in 2010. The stimulus bill did nothing to lower the unemployment rate and people are still having the hardest time of their lives finding work. What did we really get, if anything, for the 787 billion dollars the government is handing out?

There is always a segment of the population that thinks the government just hands out money to the needy. This perception was only heightened by the check many families received from George Bush during his last term in office. That check was an attempt to spur on the economy but now people will forever be hoping to get another one of those checks in the mail from something like a stimulus bill.

People should know that there never has been anything that is really free money, as it has to be paid for in some way. It is too bad more people don’t pay taxes so that they can understand and feel the pain when taxes are raised. If higher taxes impacted everyone, more people would be opposed to them and maybe politicians would think twice before throwing away our tax dollars.

Please read about the Obama moms back to school program at my website to find out how you can get a grant to go to school.

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