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I’m sitting here, watching President Obama's first official news conference, and obviously the main thing on his mind is our country’s economy. He said something that made my jaw drop. The amount of jobs we have lost is like losing every job in the state of Maine, and of all those jobs, more than half disappeared in the last month! Ouch! That is why we need the stimulus package. But do the ends of it really justify the means? People are freaking out about the amount of money being used in this package (with just cause as it somewhere in the trillions I think). I don’t really know where I stand on this issue though. We need the money, and we need it now, but you have to worry about the struggling families that are going to have to pull some of the trillion out of their pockets. At the same time it don’t even feel totally comfortable taking a stand on this issue because I don’t know how it feels. I don’t pay those taxes, I don’t need that money. To me, I have to admit, it is just a number, and it’s such a big number I can’t even actually realize how much money that is. But I don’t think this is wasteful government spending, because I don’t think this money will be put to waste. One of the few things I claim to understand about of failing economy is the fact that we need to work from the ground up. We need to get families back into houses, with a steady income, and off of welfare. But maybe a couple trillion dollars is too much money for creating four million jobs and “fixing” the economy (something that isn’t even a guarantee). Maybe it’s my naïveté, maybe it’s my gut, or maybe it’s a bizarre mixture of both, but I really can’t help but kind of trust our president on this one.