Comments on: If I Promise to Spend it, Will Obama Send Me Stimulus Money?

By: MasterPo

MasterPo — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:05:35 +0000

Funny how a few months ago everyone was biting their nails over a $1.2 trillion dollar deficit. Now Obama is promising us at least a $2 trillion deficit if not a $3 trillion one! And no one is concerned.

We’ll pay it off later – right?

By: Funny about Money

Funny about Money — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:58:06 +0000

Well, I haven’t read the news reports carefully. Is this just a rerun of the $200 Bush tax refund?

If so, I don’t get it. Two hundred buck refunds didn’t do much, no doubt because $200 will barely buy a week’s worth of groceries these days. So…why should $500 have any different effect? If most of us took the $200 and paid down debt or stashed it in savings, why wouldn’t we do the same with $500, especially since those of us who are still employed expect not to be, any time now?

Please: Take my tax refund and donate it to the state or the city to keep our police officers, librarians, and teachers working. Or maybe fix one of those earthen dams upstream upstream from where I’m living, the ones that get ricketier as the days pass. Or fix a bridge so it won’t collapse while a bunch of commuters are driving over it. Argh!!!!

By: Beef Up Your Piggy

Beef Up Your Piggy — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:21:46 +0000

Tough – This is sadly true. I couldn’t agree more. It is absolutely rewarding bad behavior. They may call it spreading the wealth or stirring the economy, but I call it rewarding bad behavior and screwing the rest of us. We are all paying for these bailouts and yet everyone has their hands out. Hello, do they realize what will happen is the taking of money from one pocket to put in the other. What ever happened to No Free Lunch!

By: headknocker

headknocker — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:03:08 +0000

The very fact that Washington thinks we can spend our way out of the current financial condition is the same as someone taking out a second mortgage to consolidate debt. They feel better, but unless they stop spending more than they make, they haven’t fixed the problem.

Here’s an idea. Let’s find about 10-20 households that are doing a great job of budgeting and saving and ask them to come up to Washington and fix the countries budget. Oh, wait. That makes too much sense.