The Democrats and Republicans reached an agreement last night in the Senate on what to include and exclude from the upcoming Stimulus bill.  More then $100 Billion has been cut from the orginal $920 Billion bill droping the cost of this Stimulus Package to $820 Billion dollars.  Most of the Republicans still do not support this new bill, which passed requiring only 3 Republican votes.

The primary goal of this bill is to create and/or save 4 million jobs over the course of the next two years.  This would offset the lost of the 3.7 million jobs lost in the United States since December 2007.

The house passed the Stimulus Package bill without needing a single Republican vote previously.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/06/AR2009020602097.html

I think that the part of the bill regarding creating 4 Million new jobs is a step in the right direction.  These jobs are less the disrable, since they are in rural places and often manuel labor in nature.  Until people stop running out of unemployment benifits they may not resort to them at first.  I imagine people are goign to be looking to this Stimulus Check as an additional paycheck to help make ends meet to ride them through this recession.