Take this quote from a channel 4 news story:
The goal is for people to spend those checks on goods and jump start a struggling economy.
President George W. Bush recognized many will use the money on necessities.
President Bush said, “This money will help offset high prices at the pump and grocery store.”
and Consider this…. New York Average Gas & Fuel Prices
Diesel $4.32
Super Unleaded $3.74
Unleaded Plus $3.55
Unleaded $3.39
and this…
Lowest State Avg: $3.04 - New Jersey
Highest State Avg: $3.66 - California
National Average: $3.29
“economic stimulus package”???? Check this: Vendors and the poor alike getting squeezed by food costs
Price hikes are worst to hit U.S. in 17 years
Keep in mind: Persons below poverty,(US census 1999)
Rochester: 25.9%
Buffalo: 26.6%
Syracuse: 27.3%
Yet this chart tells another tale and a different scale:
Now take a look at this next news story …. Thruway authority voting toll increase 10% for next couple years
and this… Coal price hikes boost electric rates, more increases coming
So the President thinks we should be rewarded because we’re forced to spend more no matter what…. then he’s hoping we’ll put our “economic stimulus” check towards shopping at the mall? WTF? If we don’t pay the electric bill (no matter what increase is added) we’ll have to go without. I hope these government rewards come every month because despite this one-time lumps sum…. OUR COST OF LIVING ISN’T GOING DOWN!!!!!!!
It’s a rock and a hard place that we’re stuck between. Americans have to drive to work to earn a wage, then we’re (all) forced to tighten our belts when the cost of living gets to be too much because minimum wage was increased…. and like clock-work, the cost of living increases as it always does, but I don’t recall such a sudden impact like this one. 
As if the President of the United States didn’t realize “a struggling economy” is the result of the working class poor of Americans struggling to survive day to day life.
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We have to drive to our workplace and work with everything that says “Made In China” on the back of it. China is the biggest winner in this contest. They have a booming economy, don’t care about gas prices, and pollute the hell out of the environment. If this doesn’t stop, in about 10 to 15 years we’ll be calling ourselves “The United States Of China”!!!!
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