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Message:: [QUOTE="Frankcoins.com, post: 966866, member: 16048"]2/13/08   President Bush on Wednesday signed the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008, calling it a "booster shot" for the American economy."The bill I'm signing today is large enough to have an impact, amounting to more than $152 billion this year, or about 1 percent of the GDP (gross domestic product)," the president said in the brief ceremony in the East Room of the White House.Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said last week that the Internal Revenue Service planned to send the $300 rebate checks to about 130 million Americans. "They're going to be getting ready to get checks out, and believe me, they will. ... And this is largely going to be done by the time summer's over. And so we're going to move quickly and make a difference," he said <a href="http://topics.cnn.com/topics/George_W_Bush" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://topics.cnn.com/topics/George_W_Bush" rel="nofollow">Bush</a> praised the quick work of the House and Senate and urged Americans not to "overreact" to the current economic troubles. "In the past seven years, the system has absorbed shocks: recession, corporate scandals, terror attacks, global war; yet the genius of our system is that it can absorb such shocks and emerge even stronger," he said. "In a dynamic market economy, our economy will prosper and it will continue to be the marvel of the world." [/QUOTE]