Economic “Stimulus” Act

For months so many people discussed the checks that we would be receiving in the mail and how badly they needed this money to pay bills and put gas in there vehicles, the talk has now turned into how people didn’t get as much as they expected. I think everyone understood that a single person would receive either three hundred or six hundred dollars but when questions were answered everyone believed they would be getting the ladder amount.
Why is it that the government insists on handing out “free” money to its people that are scraping to get by in hopes that they will go out and by unnecessary items? With so many houses being foreclosed and electricity being turned off and complaints about the gas prices why would they think that anyone would be crazy enough to go shopping? Why give us the opportunity to spend money on things we don’t need when they could just pay some of our bills for us?
All talk is on how much everything costs and how bad the economy is, there should be talk of what we are going to do to fix it. If everyone would just stop complaining and put their minds together to find solutions I think we could change some things. It has been said many of times that we the people have an opportunity to change things in this country, let’s do it.