Do you expect to be stimulated ?

Not very much compared to what trickles up.

Well the only things I’ve ever seen “trickle down” my way are shit & snowballs and I really don’t want either to hit me. Something nice coming down that hill would be a great change.

I don’t expect a check, and I’m not working for a company that takes government contracts. So, in a word, no.

I think that the stimulus bill is more of a crisis avoidance technique and probably won’t effect me greatly. Hopefully there will be a good deal of community improvement and more jobs will be had and we can some how avoid an economic collapes. I think Keynes said that if the economy is bad enough that people should be paid to dig holes and fill them in again. That makes sense, but a good chunk of that deal was pork to get it passed, and I probably won’t see much benifit from that at all.

I am a county government employee, and my job isn’t even any safer. But at least I’ll be able to get a job as a construction worker when i’m sacked :)

http://stimuluswatch.org/

Naw, it’s targeted at people who need it, and businesses that don’t. I fit in neither of those categories.

As I understand it, we can expect some stimulation in reduced witholding some time this summer. (Assumedly followed by reduction in income tax the following year so we don’t have to pay it all back with penalties).

I’m hoping the big improvement will be in infrastructure and renewable energy, but we shall see.

Not a dime.
If the government really wants to stimulate (or even please) me, they could:
– let me slide on sales tax every weekend,
– give me a frequent buyers discount on the gasoline tax,
– rebate my wife (at teacher) some more of the money that she spends out of her pocket for classroom necessities,
– make every candidate for office donate a matching dollar amount to charity for every dollar spent on TV, radio & web commercials.

They could also upgrade me for free to the full sports package with my cable provider, if they really wanted to please me.

No, not a dime.

@steelmarket I’d vote for all that.

@jasongarrett thanks for the liink!

Not a doggone penny!

If the economy is doing better and morepeople have jobs and roads and bridges and mass transit are improved and I don’t lose my job at a community college, I think I’ll be pretty stimulated. I might even ask my husband to help me do something about it!

If I want stimulation, I will get it from my spouse long before I get it from the government because I can’t trust them to follow through with anything they say they are going to do.

I’ve heard that with the tax cuts in the bill, we all might see $8 more per week in our paycheck, on average. Personally, like DeFazio says in this interview, I’d give that $8 back for more infrastructure investment.