President Obama is about to sign us all into a debt so huge, we may never again remember days of fiscal responsibility. I’m not saying that the government has been fiscally responsible as of late, just that now, the budget is so deep in the red that it will take huge amounts of taxes to ever come back. And, this bill has so much in the way of handouts that it will perpetuate the entitlement mentality that has essentially ruined our economy. We, the people of the US need to stop looking around for other people to blame such as government entities and start looking at our past indulgence. We spend, spend, spend so freely, without restraint and finally, the rampant consumerism topples and we find ourselves in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. So what medicine does the government dish out? Let’s get everybody back into their old spending habits by giving them more assistance. A bandaid for a huge gaping wound. Sure, the stimulus will have some positive effect but it is short-term and simply provides a way for the US population to be even more dependent on the government. I see it more as our freedom being stymied as the soft chains of socialism are wrapped all the more tightly around us.