How President Bush's Economic Stimulus Package Strengthened the Economy

The American Economy is Now Stronger than Ever

Wow, what a difference the mailing of millions of economic stimulus checks makes, huh? Remember back in the spring when the economy was headed toward recession? Gasoline prices were skyrocketing out of control. The mortgage crisis was threatening the very foundation of the American economy: the ability of people with not enough money to buy things they can't afford. Everywhere the liberals were crying out the sky is falling, the sky is falling. Real wages were down to the lowest levels since the Great Depression. Job rollbacks were threatening to make it impossible for even those smack dab in the middle of the elusive middle class to pay their bills, much less buy DVD players and iPods and iPhones and big screen plasma TVs. But our President Bush had a plan. A terrific plan. A plan to get the economy steamrolling again. God, how I love that man.

Economic stimulus checks up to thousands of dollars were sent to Catholic and Mormon families. Protestant families mostly received a six-hundred bucks or so. Our beloved and brilliant President saw the mess created in this country by the Democrats being in charge of Congress for a year and a half and greenlighted the most audacious inventive economic plan ever engineered in history. Give people a thousand or so dollars and they would rush to the stores to buy DVD players, iPods, iPhones, big-screen plasma TVs and all the workers who were in charge of making those things would be put to work to keep up with manufacturing those products would be give overtime wages. The money pumped into the economy was spectacular. OK, admittedly, none of those products are actually manufactured in America, but that was not the point. The economic stimulus checks were not intended to spur the manufacturing sector, but the retail sector. America is not a producer country anymore, anyway, we are a flaming consumer country. Our economy is not based on paying people to make things, but paying people to sell things.