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title: US Stimulus Package: $2588 to Every American
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# US Stimulus Package: $2588 to Every American

The US Government stimulus package of [787 billion US dollars](http://projects.nytimes.com/44th_president/stimulus "Stimulus Plan details by NY Times") ($787,000,000,000) divided by the [US population](http://www.google.lv/search?q=US+population) of 304,059,724 equals to $2,588 for every American.

Signs which some economists currently call showing recovery are actually signs of increasing amounts of money being poured into the economy. The economy will be on its way of recovery **only when Americans will have *repayed* this loan** and **generated some additional return on this investment**.

When do you think will this happen and how? Here is [a prediction](http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2009/03/debt_trajectory.html) for the Debt-to-GDP ratio:

[![Ratio of Federal debt held by public to GDP (blue), CBO baseline (green), Obama budget as scored by CBO (black), and CBO baseline minus stimulus package (red), by fiscal years.](https://kaspars.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/us-debt-to-gdp.gif?strip=all&quality=90&resize=436,336 "Ratio of Federal debt held by public to GDP (blue), CBO baseline (green), Obama budget as scored by CBO (black), and CBO baseline minus stimulus package (red), by fiscal years.")](http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2009/03/debt_trajectory.html)Ratio of Federal debt held by public to GDP (blue), CBO baseline (green), Obama budget as scored by CBO (black), and CBO baseline minus stimulus package (red), by fiscal years. Source: econbrowser.com



And you have to agree that this doesn’t look promising at all.