You are getting conned

Here is one version of how the press is talking about the stimulus bill. It tells us that money is going to education and students:

Students are big winners. Both the House and Senate bills call for the largest-ever funding increase for Pell Grants, the government's chief college aid program for low-income students.

That's true. And its hard to argue that giving money to students so that they can go to college is a bad thing.
However, this is a stimulus bill!
I can't point that out enough times.
Its the same as putting food stamps in a defense bill.

Anyway, Obama will have none of the discussion about it:

President Barack Obama's first prime-time press conference was most remarkable for how he borrowed a page from his predecessor, refusing to accept follow-up questions. It might seem like a petty issue, but it was significant and telling that George W. Bush would not allow follow-up questions in his sessions with reporters.

For those of you who noticed, Obama read off of a list of pre-approved reporters that was on his podium.