Helo Ben dropping $600 checks - what to do?

holmes · Fission Joined: Oct 12, 2004 Posts: 2412

Idiocracy.
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sittinguy · Heavy Crude Joined: Sep 07, 2007 Posts: 330

Idiocracy,, what do you mean by that?

holmes · Fission Joined: Oct 12, 2004 Posts: 2412

Watch the movie. get back to us, sittin.
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Stimulus Breakthrough in Congress
Democrats Drop Some Demands to Pass Bipartisan Measure

By Z. BYRON WOLF
Feb. 7, 2008

After Republicans had narrowly blocked a larger, more generous economic stimulus package in a vote that brought the Democratic presidential candidates scurrying to Washington, lawmakers came together Thursday around a stimulus plan hashed out in January between House leaders on both sides of the aisle and President Bush.

Senators are expected to vote later this afternoon on an amendment to add benefits for as many as 21 million seniors and 250,000 disabled veterans to the $146 billion House proposal, at a cost of an extra $9 billion over two years.

The House bill would give rebates of between $600 and $1,200 to taxpayers with maximum incomes of $75,000 for singles and $150,000 for couples. The seniors and veterans living on fixed incomes will get $300 rebate checks with the Senate amendment.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Politics/story?id=4257769&page=1

phaster · Heavy Crude Joined: Jul 15, 2007 Posts: 173

if the objective of the $600 dollar check is spend it (as suggested by congress and signed into law by the president), I'd buy lottery tickets (its free money after all), and suggest everone else do so too.

this is because, by definition the $600 dollar check would be spent in the "business as usual" consumer economy, states would get their cut (because on average 1/3 of the money in the pot goes to the state for programs like education), and someone would be lucky and win the pot.

personally if I did win one of the state lotteries, my plan would be to custom build a gold plated SUV (based on the Cadillac Escalade - I'd only buy american of course) with diamonds glued onto the rims, the vehicle would be used so I cruise around and pick up various high class hookers

http://digg.com/politics/Photos_Of_Eliot_Spitzer_s_Hooker

in style. I figure this way all the money would keep flowing in the "business as usual" US consumer economy.

I'm just kinda pissed off I won't have the opportunity to put my fool proof plan into action this year, cause I'm not getting any "free" money (my darn adjusted gross income is over the limits of the "rebate" program).

dinopello

Well, my shovel handle broke today so I'm getting a new one and maybe some other gardening tools. Probably have some left over too. Smile

Ludi

Maybe get some extra handles (I need to do that).
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