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$13.00 a week?
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 7:10 pm
by trev
What is that going to buy someone? Another fast food meal? What else? I don't get it. Someone please explain. And how many people that make under 75K are really going to put this money to use? Another couple packs of cigarettes?
Re: $13.00 a week?
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 7:22 pm
by BSmack
It doesn't particularly matter what the money is spent on, just that it is spent. Though I do agree that it would have been better had the tax cut been made retroactive to 2008, which would have given everybody a nice addition to their tax refund to spend out the gate.
Re: $13.00 a week?
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 9:04 pm
by BSmack
mvscal wrote:BSmack wrote:It doesn't particularly matter what the money is spent on, just that it is spent.
Then what? Voila! Economic crisis over?
Not by a long shot. But it will help stem the tide until real stimulus can be done. We're still looking at filling in a 2 trillion dollar hole in the economy.
Re: $13.00 a week?
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 9:19 pm
by Dinsdale
mvscal wrote:Unfortunately for us all, Onogroid, dumbfuck that he is, is bound and determined to repeat the failed policies of past...on an even larger scale.
Nooooo shit.
Any "economic model" that involves half the people being productive so they can support the other half that is essentially paid to watch over them is GOING to fail miserably.
Re: $13.00 a week?
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 10:26 pm
by War Wagon
trev wrote:What is that going to buy someone? Another fast food meal? What else? I don't get it. Someone please explain. And how many people that make under 75K are really going to put this money to use? Another couple packs of cigarettes?
Well, it will cover the increased cost of smokes.
Re: $13.00 a week?
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 11:20 pm
by Mikey
Should cover about two days of trev's cheap vodka consumption at $10.00 per half gallon.
Re: $13.00 a week?
Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 12:48 am
by trev
Mikey wrote:Should cover about two days of trev's cheap vodka consumption at $10.00 per half gallon.
My household won't be getting the extra $13.00, numbnuts. But thanks for tarding up the thread so beautifully like only you can do.
Re: $13.00 a week?
Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2009 1:35 am
by Diego in Seattle
Toddowen wrote:Dinsdale wrote:
Any "economic model" that involves half the people being productive so they can support the other half that is essentially paid to watch over them is GOING to fail miserably.
Fail indeed.
At least in the meantime, I'd appreciate it if the other half stays the fuck out of the way while I dig my little ditch.
Only if your ditch is going to be 6' deep.