My Single Mom Life

The news has been so depressing lately, all the lost jobs, companies closing, people losing work and homes, and some people so desperate, they take their lives or the lives of their families.

I read that there's been something like 11 family murder-suicides since this whole thing started, and another one happened in Ohio the other day.
It seems the father's are falling apart, the men, the heads of households are crumbling under the weight of this crappy economy.
A father in Ohio shot his wife and 2 small kids, and then himself, over being unemployed but got his job back anyway.
Was the burden of the building debts far too much for him to deal with anymore?
That's what they're saying about the family out in California, that the father simply couldn't handle the amount of debts, and killed his 5 kids, wife, and then himself.

And then I'm surfing around today, and I see this site, Director of Fandemonium, it's a job search site, they say they have over 330,000 jobs, 100,000+ employers, so it got me thinking.
Are there really no jobs left out there?
Can a company say the have work, say they can help you find a job, if there really aren't any?
Are people panicking so badly that they don't even try to see if there's another job that they can do?
Is the stress of listening to the nightly news and reading the newspapers, which are laying people off left and right, just too much for people to deal with?

I watch the news every single night, and even though I don't own my home or have an outside the home job, I sit here watching with my heart racing, listening to Brian Williams tell it like it is, (with a little spin of course) and think to myself, no wonder people are freaking out, I'm freaking out.
All I can do, all any of us can do, is hope that things turn around and get better.
Soon.
I look at the new stimulus plan, and all I can think is how it's not going to work.
If you give people money in this economy, there will be some who spend it on frivolous crap, but most people, smart people, are going to hang onto that money, stick it in the bank, because things are way too bad to just go buy something that you don't really need, not when we're watching more and more companies laying people off and closing up shop.
And then I think, instead of taking our money and then findng ways to give it back to us to stimulate the economy, why not take less of our money, take less taxes away from us, let us keep more of our paychecks so that we have more money to pay our bills and buy things.
We'd be able to stimulate the economy naturally if we had more money from our paychecks to do what we need to do.

I've been told that's crazy thinking, that the liberals see handing people more money is far easier to do than to take less away from us.
That just doesn't make sense, my brain doesn't register that as a logical thing to do at all.
Take more money away, then give us more money that they took away because they all screwed up and realize that they need to give us more money.
Just take less away from us to start with, and there will be none of this taking and giving back.