Post #2: The Election

I am highly interested in this presidential election, more so than any other presidential election since I turned 18. This is my sixth one. I watch a lot of CNN, listen to a lot of NPR, and check cspan.org with some regularity. A significant amount of Americans are worried about the economy. I'm just getting into this, but surely economies can't always be growing. Don't sometimes they have to be resting? The government has decided to give lots of people some money to go buy some STUFF to prop up the economy. Then what?