The 2009 stimulus bill had no special grants in it that were aimed at regular people. This is something that many people still fail to understand today: that there just wasn’t any money in that bill for individual people. It all went to government agencies and big businesses.

If you are a person that needed help, one of your only options for benefiting from the bill was to get a job that came about as a result of the stimulus. It is also possible that you could have gotten some form of mortgage assistance as well but that didn’t apply to too many people. The bill did not impact government grants even though many people continue to look for grants thinking there are more of them available than usual.

Even though the stimulus plan was passed over a year ago, people continue to find it tough going economically. The bill has done nothing to lower the unemployment rate and people are still as fearful today of losing their jobs as they were last year. This makes one wonder what was really accomplished with the 787 billion dollars that the US taxpayers now owe?

Whenever huge sums of dollars are talked about like that, there is always a group of people who think the government is just giving away money. They might have gotten that perception from the Bush stimulus bill that sent checks to many households in the country to try to spur on the economy and get spending going. People will forever hope that a similar check will come in the mail and that they will be given more free money.

Of course there is really no free money and everything comes with a cost. People who work and pay taxes are the ones footing the bills and in today’s system, there aren’t enough of those people. If everyone shared the burden of taxes equally, there might be more respect for money in general and more people would understand that everything comes with a price.

Please take a look at my website Obama Grant to learn about getting government financial aid. You might also be interested in finding out whether there is going to be a 2010 stimulus rebate.