The whole point of a stimulus bill was to get money into the hands of people that would go out and spend it. Only 19 percent of the people surveyed said they planned on doing that. Forty-five percent said they’d use it to pay bills. Nearly half of those surveyed said getting us out of Iraq would solve our economic problems:

WASHINGTON (AP) — The heck with Congress’ big stimulus bill. The way to get the country out of recession - and most people think we’re in one - is to get the country out of Iraq, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll.
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“Let’s stop paying for this war,” said Hilda Sanchez, 44, of Waterford, Calif. “There are a lot of people who are struggling. We can use the money to pay for medical care and help people who were put out of their homes.”

This makes a lot of sense, especially since:

WASHINGTON (AP) — A classified Pentagon assessment concludes that long battlefield tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with persistent terrorist activity and other threats, have prevented the U.S. military from improving its ability to respond to any new crisis, The Associated Press has learned.

Despite security gains in Iraq, there is still a “significant” risk that the strained U.S. military cannot quickly and fully respond to another outbreak elsewhere in the world, according to the report.

Assumed presidential nominee John McCain, in typical republican fashion, disagrees:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican John McCain plans to run a general election campaign as steadfast protector of the United States in the face of terrorism as well as a crusader against big government. The Democrats, he says, offer neither.
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“That is going to be, I think, a major issue in this campaign,” McCain said Friday in Norfolk, Va. “They want to set a date for withdrawal from Iraq that I believe would have catastrophic consequences.”