Think of the stimulus like the air bags in an airplane. There the training says for the adults to take care of themselves first and then take care of the dependents. That's basically the school of thought although most big people today think "big business" and immediately go to "exorbitant C-level salaries" and equate big business to being an enemy of the common man.

Not to mention is much easier to set up taking care of businesses with a system, some of which is already in place, versus cutting several million individual checks. Would I like it to be faster? Absolutely but I'm just glad they are doing something.

Both needed to be taken care and and to some level both are. No idea yet if it's the best thing, but they didn't have a month to sit around and debate and write the thing either.