Regardless of whether or not you believe that an economy can be 'stimulated' by government spending, it would seem that if you are trying to get out of a recession, you would spend the stimulus money now, not later. However, according to the Congressional Budget Office, of the $787 billion appropriated in the final bill, $236 billion won't be spent until 2011. That's 41% of this monster. If the true nature of this bill was to stimulate the economy, $236 billion could have been cut and still provided the necessary stimulus. The truth is that this bill is a sham and will burden current and future generations with a mountain of debt. George Bush and Congress (both parties) took 8 years to dig a deep deficit hole, it has only taken Obama and Congressional Democrats days to dig a deeper one.