if you ask me the first step to fixing the economy is to fix the deficit, if the government shows no regards to fiscal responsibility and pretty well laughs at the idea as the current regime does then how can you expect the common man who's knowledge of things of that matter work to give a rats ass?
as for the stimulus package itself, its needed and more importantly its needed to be spent regardless of whether spending it or not is the most intelligent thing to be done in the long run, spending the money equates to stimulating the economy which should, hopefully, in turn stave off a recession