This year, taxpayers will receive an Economic Stimulus Payment. This is a very exciting new program that I will explain using the Q and A format:

Q. What is an Economic Stimulus Payment?
A. It is money that the federal government will send to taxpayers.

Q. Where will the government get this money?
A. From taxpayers.

Q. So the government is giving me back my own money?
A. Only a smidgen.

Q. What is the purpose of this payment?
A. The plan is that you will use the money to purchase a high-definition TV set, thus stimulating the economy.

Q. But isn't that stimulating the economy of China ?
A. Shut up.

Below is some helpful advice on how to best help the US economy by spending your stimulus check wisely: If you spend that money at Wal-Mart, all the money will go to China . If you spend it on gasoline it will go to the Arabs. If you purchase a computer it will go to India . If you purchase fruits and vegetables it will go to Mexico , Honduras , and Guatemala (unless you buy organic). If you buy a car it will go to Japan . If you purchase useless crap it will go to Taiwan . And none of it will help the American economy. We need to keep that money here in America . You can keep the money in America by spending it at yard sales, going to a baseball game, or spend it on prostitutes, beer and wine (domestic ONLY), fast food, or tattoos, since those are the only businesses still in the US .

Cheers

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Or you can use it to go see other Pixies

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Let's see, Budweiser now belongs to The Netherlands, "American" cars are built in Canada & Mexico, while Japanese cars are being built in Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, etc., all the hookers I see seem to be Hispanic, and yard sales? Talk about useless crap...

I give up

I'll probably spend my money on porn & drugs, and the rest I'll waste somehow...

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Plug me into somethin'

If the theory does not conform to the facts, then the facts must be discarded.

No good deed ever goes unpunished

Never argue with an idiot. He'll drag you down to his level, & beat you with experience.

Miller Beer is owned by a south African company, Coors is owned by a Candadian Company. You had better brew your own beer. But then the hops are imported also.


Quess I'll go eat worms.

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So the people that already have and are going to get the lions share of the bailout are the same ones that decided 25 years ago that we will become a "service economy".

I posted the joke as bait for discussion on long held thoughts I've had about an area of our (now global) society. Before you tell me this is not a topic that is my forte, remember that the financial 'EXPERTS' are the same accountants, bankers, brokers and money managers who's compliancy, contrivances, advise and short/long term greed got us here.

When 10 shoe shine stands are placed in a circle with a person getting a shine and paying $1 to the 'servicer' ahead of him, who in turn gets the next shine and passes the $1 along, it will only travel until the first 'servicer' runs out of polish. When the $1 has to be taken out of the loop for needed supply the "service economy" stops. I know this is a very simplistic example to a very complex and contorted system that has been created by 'the experts', but common sense (which is NOT their primary tool) says something fundamentally is wrong here.

We are still physical creatures existing in a physical environment that has basic requirements of shelter, food and clothing for survival. We add the needs of transportation, books, electric light, TV's, and so on to meet functionality in the societal norm. These are all TANGABLE quantities that we can not exist without. While the ratio of domestic beast and manpower to support and assistance has changed through technology, the requirement for physical goods has not. To believe that the rest of humanity will remain ignorant slaves bringing gifts to the all-knowing for their guidance is arrogance and ignorance beyond comprehension.

Please excuse this Doubting Thomas if I say I don't understand what they are doing and only am sure they don't either.

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There are as many ideas on who should receive stimulus (yes, we have one too) as there are people who can gouge it.

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Calm, quiet, smooth, devastating

AMEN! Irish

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Irish---Better to be dead & cool,then alive & uncool!
(Harley Davidson & the Marlboro Man)