The article "Trade-offs in the Stimulus Package" appeared in CQ Politics. It was posted on February 4, 2009 at 3:53 am using the CQ Today Online News. The author was guest columnist Madison Powers. His article focused on the Stimulus Package and some of the benefits, advances, and reserves that some have about it.
This article is directed more toward the working and middle class citizens. It is helping them understand more about the Stimulus Package and how it is supposed to work. The article tells hows the package is going to benefit them in certain programs like unemployment, food stamps, and government. The Stimulus Package is going to put money back into unemployment, and help extend some of their benefits. Also, it will increase the availability of food stamps; meaning that more Americans will be able to get food stamps.
Both of the programs help working and the middle class because of the economy being down it will give these classes a fighting chance. It will allow them to live week to week until they are able to find work or until their salaries come back up. Right now for everyone in America Darwin's theory is really coming to life. it truly is survival of the fittest. If you don't fight then you don't live. Also the package will help some what bail out local governments. Hoping this helps those classes because state and local governments would invest in more things that would bring more jobs to the area.
The author also wants to see the small people survive. A lot of people have reserves about how the money is going to be spent. They are worried about money going to much bigger programs than whee it needs to go. The author said it right when he said we need to fix the cracks because if we fixed the smaller cracks then they would not turn it to giant holes. The author just wants to make sure the audience knows where the money is going, and that it is going to be equal.
The author argument is clear. Just as he; I ; want to know where the money is going and making sure it is going to benefit the right people and the right programs. If the money just went to huge programs and businesses then we would not be able to make it, and go into another depression just as the 1930's. Hopefully this package will do what it is supposed to and stimulate the economy. Then we can try to pick up ourselves out of this rut we are in, and get back to living free and unpressed with gloom and doom.
