Most will spend frivolously instead of paying down there debt, so this will do nothing.  What a waste. If they want to do something that will make a measurable difference, why not get rid of the gas tax for a period of time instead of placing worthless dollars in the hands of people that spend money as if they have it.  Stupid, just plain stupid.

Well that $600.00 would cover about 25 % of a months mortgage for me  so forget that !

 I do believe that the worth of housing here is still dropping, all the while the rental rates are rising to the sky, give it a couple years, and things will switch back the way they were.  Appraisals were jacked up so high at the end of the bubble anyhow, there just adjusting.

Lets just hope that the masses for the most part do the right thing as well. What you are doing is fantasic IMO !

  They want us to spend it,  now I think it's obvious I am no economist, but this could only work as a B-12 shot would do, temporary, it can't stop inflation which is what is really killing us.  But it can boost moral.

 It really is just consumer crack.  I hate to be so pessimistic about this, I just don't see the overall fortune of a how many billion dollar give away could do much more than be  false hope.

You know , i do believe that could be the bumper sticker of the year dude 

To stop inflation you have to get the value of the dollar up. Which if you have noticed over the past two weeks, It has been making up some ground on the euro, because it seems like fed. rate cuts are going to be coming to end with them probably only doing one more of .25

If they stop making so many rate cuts the value of the dollar will stop going down, and will stabilize, with a slow but steady increase, inflation with stop, price for oil will go down (some) and price of food will go down (which is really killing people)

opec can go F#@& them selves. They keep saying that, they keep compiling they don't have enough money, yet they have the highest profits ever, and demand is higher then ever. It doesn't make since.

There is no reason why oil should have ever even gotten close to where it is now. And as long as the dollar is weak its going to be like this. Yet, we have so much damn here to lower the price back to a dollar a gallon, but we can't get it, or refine it, because those damn liberal envro. nuts say "oh your going to hurt and kill the animals"

IDK about you all but at this point I don't care if we drill through a F#@&en caribou's head in alaska to get the oil. its there, its ours, lets go get it.

I can go stand on the beach and see the perfect spot to drill for cheap oil yet we can't do it, again because of the F#@&en liberals, But china can, in our own god damn water.

left wing socialists and soccer moms are standing in the way of keeping this country going. You can't do S#!t anymore here, you have to speak two languages now if you go to some places, you can't saying anything real anymore, border agents are getting arrested and thrown in jail for doing there job. And who do you have to thank, left wing liberals, socialists, and soccer moms who "we're all winners".  And the fat cats in washington have a blind eye too it, going what the F#@& are you talking about, all because they are either in bed with them, or are too scared to say anything about it, because its an election year.

It doesn't quite work like that. Between anwr, the gulf of mexico, and off the east coast of florida, there is enough oil to keep us going for 30 years. Oh and don't forget the oil we lay claim too north of canada. That would be plenty of time for us to get off oil.

Oh S#!t, I almost forgot, they just found another massive oil field in brazil. And guess what we are very friendly with brazil and they don't use oil. Wonder who is going to get to use that.

We could be a 100% oil indpendent from the middle east, china, venizelia, and who ever else we shouldn't be in bed with, if we wanted too, But no we can't go get our own stuff....

Now how F#@&ed up is all that.