WOO HOO....!
The stimulus plan should be renamed the Welfare Expansion Act of 2009. It will vastly increase federal spending, but will do next to nothing to alleviate the current, government-caused, economic crisis.
If the Obama administration had any common sense, it would eliminate mark-to-market accounting. If Congress and the president had brains, they would eliminate the federal income tax and all its excess baggage, replacing it with a national sales tax.
The above two actions would result in an unprecedented economic boom.