I would like to echo the comments of your recent VFYR writer, the one who "never gave much thought to social programs, frankly, I neither needed or qualified for them." This is true of me as well.

I am a self-employed paralegal and project manager, specializing in contract and IP-related law. This year was going very slowly for me, as it was for my clients, until several months ago, when one of my clients was suddenly overcome with demand for its datacom product as a direct result of stimulus funds becoming available to their customers (who were funded to deliver broadband services to *their* rural customers.) Now I have more work than I can handle.