Amen to everything you wrote Joel Norris. I would add, why does this writer (and so many other conservative voices) focus so much vitriol on the $1200 checks people will be receiving? Not saying it is a good or bad thing, but the funding for it only amounts to a small fraction of the bill that was passed. Why not focus on the trillions of dollars being printed and given to banks and large corporations at zero interest so they can then nickle and dime the common man, and then inevitably give themselves exorbitant bonuses in a couple years time!?! Or the pork barrel spending that was chambered and ready for the right crisis to come along!?! No, instead the greatest travesty to many conservatives is that the little guy may actually get a pittance out of this package.