“Where is my stimulus check?” continues to be one of the most searched for phrases on Google, despite US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s recent assurances that the government will have send out almost $50 worth of economic stimulus checks by the end of the month.

This from Forbes.com:

The first $7 bln of economic stimulus payments went out by electronic deposit last week to 7.7 mln people, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Thursday. The average payment was $920.

Almost $50 bln will have been sent out by the end of this month and another $50 bln by early July to a total of about 130 mln households, he said after touring a plant printing stimulus checks in Kansas City.

For American tax payers…