a.) Ben Bernanke disagrees
b.) The only way the money would fully leave the country is if you went over to the other country and bought it there. If you buy a foreign made product in the US, you're still supporting the wholesalers/distributers who got the products to America, marketed them, and sold them.
Stimulating market spending via tax cuts and federal fund rate decreases has been proven to help in the short term, which is what they're working on, so I fail to see a problem.
Calling the economy a "cancer" is being very dramatic, especially considering the prime source of most of the problems was due to very correctable market variables (subprime lending, real estate inflation).
not disagreeing with these points, but...
of the $600 only a percentage of that will be actually going toward helping our economy, depending on what the taxpayer actually uses it for etc.
ideally the government should be able to use all of the $600 much more wisely to achieve its desired results, and not let us fawk it up, but then we dont get "free" money and are not nearly as happy with our wonderful USofA
will i get a full $600 even though i was only employed for half of last year?
should i?
im pretty sure i get an earned income credit this year, we will see soon enough though