Stimulus Check???

A friend of mine sent me a funny e-mail about the stimulus checks. Supposedly everyone in the US is supposed to receive some tens of thousands of dollars amount. You clicked on the "IRS link" to find out how many thousands you're supposed to receive. What popped up was a laughing kitten saying "You wish!" Yeah, I wish, all right. While I'd love to receive, oh, say, $50,000 or so, I have a real problem with this whole "stimulus" thing...

My main problem and concern with the stimulus checks--both Obama's proposal and the one Dubya gave us--is simply this: WHERE THE HELL IS THE MONEY COMING FROM??? If the economy is as tight as everyone is saying, and it certainly is, we, the taxpayers, and the government DON'T HAVE all these billions of dollars! So non-existent money is being sent to people, in hopes that they'll spend it and rescue the economy??? It abso-friggin--lutely does not compute.

I got straight As in both micro- and macro-economics, but that sure doesn't make me an economics genius. However, even I can understand that one can't make something from nothing. Six hundred or even six thousand non-existent dollars are not going to turn things around. Whatever stupid amount of non-money we get this time around is going straight where Dubya's snake-oil-miracle-cure money went: into our savings account. What--they think we're going out and buying a new car? Jeezus pleezus.