Keep it in the bank or, better yet, tear up the check.

Government does not have its own money, it only has OUR money, yours and mine. The only place it can get the money it is going to give you is by taxing you harder to collect it.

Gov't cannot create value, so if government prints more money to give us, all it is doing is diluting the value of the money already in circulation .. aka "inflation." (Which means more $$ buys less value.)

If you take that check, you are going to pay back those dollars, plus some, and the dollars you have afterwards will buy less than they did before you got them. It is basic, basic economics. If the alternative is literally starving, then what you have to pay in the future doesn't matter much, you're over a barrel such that you have to survive now before long term consequences matter, but if you are in a position where you can get by without it, it is cheaper in the long run to not take that money.

Tom

Anyone who thinks there's two sides to everything hasn't met a M�bius strip.

Here be dragons ...