The article "Trade-Offs in the Stimulus Package" was written by Madison Powers and is an attempt to overview and explain some of the inner workings of the new stimulus package. This is most likely to present it to the common American citizen so they might feel a little more connected to what is at stake, as well as better understand what is actually being done with the money.
So, the question is this: is it better the present certain large interests the sums of money they require to remain afloat, and then hope it trickles down to the rest of America, or is it better to take the enormous sum of money and divided it up among the masses in a way that will give us visible return more quickly? This article is presented to explain why the choice is the latter, and I think it does a good job. Anything over a million dollars is somewhat hard to fathom for the average citizen. A billion is even more difficult to imagine, and a trillion is near impossible. It does help, though, to see that this money is being divided up into smaller portions and given out amongst the states, federal and state funded programs, and other SMALLER economic interests. This makes it a little easier to swallow - rather than picturing some CEO pocketing a billion dollars of our money and then walking away. I think this article did a great job of presenting some details of the plan in a way that make it more accessible.
