Hoarding is exactly what the government is doing right now by filling the SPR, and frankly it's the best thing that could happen. It drives prices up. High prices encourage demand destruction. They also finance new well development. The hoarded oil gives us a buffer to fall back on once shortages become more prevalent. High prices are what we need in order to adapt to what's coming, and the sooner they happen, the better.
Joined: Jan 02, 2008 Posts: 367 Location: out dispatching ronan...
Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 2:43 pm Post subject: Re: "Stimulus"
crazy isn't it!
My partner and I decided to use the money on the services of a private midwife, so that we could give our daughter the kind of introduction to the world that resembles something 'natural' at home.
It was expensive and consumed most of the so called 'bonus', but was thoroughly worth it. We managed to avoid the factory hospitals and the c-section obstetricians.
Apparently, a lot of people waste the bonus on widescreen plasma televisions and things like that, or so I've heard...
Joined: Jun 13, 2007 Posts: 3013 Location: Minniesotuh
Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 6:56 pm Post subject: Re: "Stimulus"
Oh, dear! Things are not going well:
IRS says about 15,000 checks were misdeposited
WASHINGTON (WJRT) -- (05/15/0-- Wondering where your stimulus check is? You might have good reason.
The Internal Revenue Service admits some 15,000 rebate checks have been direct deposited into the wrong bank accounts.
A computer programming glitch is to blame, according to the Treasury Department. …
Those darn computers
IRS says up to 350,000 didn't get child credit
WASHINGTON -
The Internal Revenue Service says up to 350,000 households didn't get their $300 per child refund that should have been part of their economic stimulus rebate checks.
The tax agency says human error and computer glitches were responsible for the problem affecting a tiny percentage of the 130 million taxpayers expected to benefit from the paybacks. …
GIGO _________________ "RRrrruuuunnnn!!!" ~Apocalypto
Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 7:39 pm Post subject: Re: "Stimulus"
The Turbo Tax people sent out an email explaining in short that TT users will be getting paper checks sometime between late May and July.
Whatevah.
cb _________________ President Bush: “There’s no question about it. Wall Street got drunk—that’s one of the reasons I asked you to turn off the TV cameras. It got drunk, and now it’s got a hangover."
Joined: Apr 28, 2005 Posts: 3278 Location: West shore Lake Eire, MI, USA
Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 8:08 pm Post subject: Re: "Stimulus"
Well I have not seen squat, niether money deposited nor letter telling me why I am not getting any. _________________ Oxygen: - An intensely habit-forming accumulative toxic substance. As little
as one breath is known to produce a life-long addiction to the gas, which addiction invariably ends in death.--Isaac Asimov
Joined: Apr 28, 2005 Posts: 3278 Location: West shore Lake Eire, MI, USA
Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 8:35 pm Post subject: Re: "Stimulus"
Pops wrote:
Google irs rebate or some such, there is a mailing schedule based on your SS# I think.
Crud, checked my email and I got a Turbotax email today saying I am stuck with a mailed check when they get around to me. This despite the fact thta I have been using Direct Deposit for five years! _________________ Oxygen: - An intensely habit-forming accumulative toxic substance. As little
as one breath is known to produce a life-long addiction to the gas, which addiction invariably ends in death.--Isaac Asimov
Joined: Sep 19, 2007 Posts: 917 Location: Land of the Tongva tribe
Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 10:44 am Post subject: Re: "Stimulus"
Tanada wrote:
Crud, checked my email and I got a Turbotax email today saying I am stuck with a mailed check when they get around to me. This despite the fact thta I have been using Direct Deposit for five years!
Complain Complain Complain
I would be happy to get "free" money.
joeltrout _________________ ENERGY is the basis of our industrial civilization and sustains our standard of living. It is the foundation stone of our national wealth. A nation starved of energy.....will be a nation of starving people.
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