"Wall Street ended a painful week with another decline Friday as skittish investors unable to hold on to much optimism about the economy drew little comfort from President Bush's stimulus plan."
Why do they think that giving $1,000 to someone will
1. Save the job of someone else making over $80,000? Or,
2. Get someone to buy a $400,000 home? Or,
3. Cover the Second payment after the $1,000 is used as down payment for a car they cannot afford?
4. Keep someone from driving to Gambling Joints and come back drunk and broke?
5. Increase the efficiency of American-made goods, without increase prices?

6. Improve the education and infrastructure everywhere.
Etc.

Politicians want to buy votes for the next election and Democrats are in a bind, (a) if they vote against the "give-away" they get blame for the worsening recession
and (b) if they vote for it, they will be blamed, when it fails to work and we are driven into a deeper Recession.

Democrats and Republicans willing to "Do the Right Thing" should form a temporary coalition and use the money to give industr incentives to build all the BART extension, and the equivalent in other states, increase the subsidies for windmill farms, increase to 80% the subsidy for solar cell panels, build a freight train tunnel from Oakland and Tracy to meet the North-South train to Stockton and Bakersfield, the tunnel to carry a two-container stack and expedite the rail tunnel enlargement in the Sierra Nevada, and all containers will be carried out of the state by freight train. GE already makes a hybrid train that has a molten salt battery and is charged with an overhead trolley segment.

The power wires would be placed in the most accessible railway segments, the battery powers the train elsewhere.

Many other green and more efficient alternatives could be implemented with the planned $150 Billion. It is the gains in efficiency and the drop in salaries that gives us the opportunity to "START ALL OVER AGAIN, A LITTLE WISER" and not simply "throw money at a problem", like repuclicans used to say.
This is worse than dumb, if verges in a national suicide, I am switching out of the Republican Party.

The Democrats are not trying to destroy our economy.

By the way, the cost of the Iraq War is still about $2 Billion a week, will we have to continue paying for that, too?