Stimulous package

I will admit I have a lot of negative feelings about this. I just feel the first one did nothing and this is for far more money and I just don't see how it will work. I believe the best way to help the taxpayer would have been by giving them the 800 billion dollars. I know this was floating around the internet for a while but if every legal taxpayer 18 and over was given 200,000 dollars the housing market could recorrect, forclosures would stop, people could save and spend and halt further job losses. They could have let some of those banks and companies go under and let the chips fall where they will. I'm no economist but I have a lot of doubt!