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January 25, 2008 at 17:21:23

There's Nothing Titillating in the Economic Stimulus Package

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Save our children and tickle our economy by forcing Mattel and other toy companies to bring the toys home.

Presidential candidate Mitt Romney is full of it when he insists 'we must deregulate business.' That worked so well in the past. China, India, Mexico and other countries don't have product regulations or standards, and we get nothing but poisonous and inferior products from them that aren't cheaper.

Another example, besides all the recalls of food, toys, pet food and baby products that we all know about, is my own experience. At the beginning of the week both the ice maker and dryer crapped out.

My trusty Russian craftsman -- he must be trustworthy. How can I not have faith in a who raises and trains German shepherds to perform in the movies in his spare time -- who repairs all appliances, flat out said...all the new appliances are crap from overseas.

Like I didn't already know that.

Alexei said all the new dryers have computer-controlled settings, which are always breaking. It seemed logical to fix my eight-year-old Whirlpool that he said was in fine shape except for needing a new thermostat, plastic air exhaust hose and some small doobee that I can't remember.

It would be reasonable to think he sold me a bill of goods on two-hundred bucks worth of repairs, but my old dryer has a wide door for folding and catching falling socks, two "I-turn-'em" dials and a start button.

I can control it to do anything I want for as long as I want, unlike the new dishwasher, which will only do what the computer settings tell it to do...and it doesn't do that very well.

The bill of good that's really being sold is that these loans against our next tax bill will do anything to excite the economy. It's a cruel ruse to get us to spend money we're not sure how much we're going to get or if were going to get, and prematurely raise the debt on our credit cards.

$300. What will that stimulate, titillate or ignite?

Who are they kidding? Three hundred dollars if you get that much is barely enough to buy a week's worth of groceries for a family of four. In Southern California it won't cover one month of air-conditioning.

They're playing with the idea of giving families and extra $300 per child. I guess people like me will have to quickly adopt a few kids to get in on the bogus bounty.

If you have kids and qualify, you might get $1,200. That won't even buy shoes and school clothes all around.

Republican money ideas aren't working for them either. Every candidate except Romney and Ron Paul are tapped out. Paul must have the Midas touch, because he doesn't seem have to ask for money, his supporters part with their hard-earned dollars without being asked.

Romney made tons of money off the sweat of others, and to further illustrate how his "no regulations" is a fool's game...the current housing crisis and sub prime loans is because no one in the government was minding the mortgage lending stores. Borrowers were duped into getting 'something for nothing' sales pitches by a bunch of snake oil salesmen.

Bad stewardship by Congress demands that they get some cajones and insist that part of the stimulus "package" include and extension of unemployment benefits and increased food stamps.

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Sandy Sand began her writing career while raising three children and doing public relations work for Women's American ORT (Organization for Rehabilitation through Training). That led to a job as a reporter for the San Fernando Valley Chronicle, a weekly publication in Canoga Park, California. In conjunction with the Chronicle, she broadcast a tri-weekly, 10-minute newscast for KGOE AM. Following the closure of the Chronicle, Sand became the editor of the Tolucan Times and Canyon Crier newspapers...

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Sandy SandSandy Sand began her writing career while raising three children and doing public relations work for Women's American ORT (Organization for Rehabilitation through Training). That led to a job as a reporter for the San Fernando Valley Chronicle, a weekly publication in Canoga Park, California. In conjunction with the Chronicle, she broadcast a tri-weekly, 10-minute newscast for KGOE AM. Following the closure of the Chronicle, Sand became the editor of the Tolucan Times and Canyon Crier newspapers...

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I knew I left something out

Get rid of NAFTA, CAFTA, SCHMAFTA and all the F**'INAFTAS.

NAFTA was a bigger boner on Bill Clinton's part than his other boner.

by Sandy Sand (143 articles, 0 quicklinks, 196 diaries, 1379 comments) on Friday, January 25, 2008 at 9:30:51 PM

Robert Sargent is co-owner of a Washington State commercial printing company with operations in Seattle and Redmond. He has an Economics degree from the University of Washington and occasionally plays alto sax with the Husky alumni band. An amateur economist, investor and photographer, and fiscally conservative moderate at heart, Robert has been a "yellow-dog Democrat" since the Bush administration "began screwing up the world beyond repair". Active in local and national political races, Mr. Sar...

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Robert SargentRobert Sargent is co-owner of a Washington State commercial printing company with operations in Seattle and Redmond. He has an Economics degree from the University of Washington and occasionally plays alto sax with the Husky alumni band. An amateur economist, investor and photographer, and fiscally conservative moderate at heart, Robert has been a "yellow-dog Democrat" since the Bush administration "began screwing up the world beyond repair". Active in local and national political races, Mr. Sar...

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Well...

This was so full of sexual inuendo, that I now think rather than save the money, I'll cash the check & rush out for a 2 hour tantric massage.

I think the "trickle down" double entendre was taking things a bit too far. But at least you tactfully refrained from mentioning anything about getting f*%#@d in the ass!

by Robert Sargent (10 articles, 0 quicklinks, 26 diaries, 303 comments) on Friday, January 25, 2008 at 10:25:45 PM

Naughty boy

The double ententre is all in your head, 'cuz I never thought of it. But now that you mention it...

by Sandy Sand (143 articles, 0 quicklinks, 196 diaries, 1379 comments) on Friday, January 25, 2008 at 11:10:20 PM

Harpist, unemployed blue collar worker, and Bush basher living deep in the heart of Texas.
PappyHarpist, unemployed blue collar worker, and Bush basher living deep in the heart of Texas.

Clinton's boner...

...the other white meat...and seemingly the only tool of destruction that, by its very use, is worthy of impeachment.

Jobs...I remember those. I sometimes miss the one I had in Ohio. Had they been willing to move me up, I might still be there...but it wasn't to be.

You know, if I HAD money, I'd be more than willing to stimulate the economy, at least as far as a new-to-me car is concerned, and perhaps new guts for my computer, or a new computer..or, or, or, or, or!

The roller coaster ride that is the current economic situation isn't going to be fixed by band-aids, err, I mean tax cuts. There are serious problems in the economy, and there have been since the liar in chief took over. But it only affected blue collar people, so it was no big deal. And if the unemployment rate raised at first, eventually, it would drop off again, as the nuevo-not-so-riche' used up their unemployment benefits. Of course, the so-called low unemployment rate hasn't changed the fact that the number of un and under employed has grown steadily. And so has the number of homeless (that's REALLY on the rise, presently), and the number of people living below the poverty line.

But that shit is boring! It makes for shitty copy. It makes for who cares headlines. It doesn't waft gently off the tongue like "economic stimulus package".

That phrase is inherently sexual. There are multiples of entendres just dripping off of it.

Economic...what gives people hotter crotches than tall, reaking, smelly, green piles of nasty, germ infested money? To hear (C)rap stars tell the tale, 'dem bitches gots steamin' coochies for mens with pockets full of dead presidents...and Benjamins, too-cheeze.

Stimulus...well, stimulation is a good thing! We live for it! We live because of it! We were born as a result of it! It's as natural as well, having a nervous system, ask any slug. Uh, hey Flush Lintball, isn't stimulation a good thing? Wha?? Oh, I see. You wouldn't have needed that viagra in the Dominican Republic without it. So, it is a good thing...by the way, why did you need viagra in the Dominican Republic anyway? A sex with kids vacation, perhaps?

Package...that's the unit, the thingie, the peter, the shlong, the dick. So, with these tax "rebates", the economy is suddenly going to get a much needed boost to it's thingie, probably via vitamin "V". How much more sexual can you get? I mean!

I digress...sorry...I'm not sorry.

Yeah, we aren't getting a damned thing from the government. Tax rebates, tax breaks, economic stimulous? It's an illusion, and yet another lie; a lie told on the time delay plan. The economy is going to tank because it has to. The balance needs to come back, and this is how it starts. (crossing fingers)

Blessed be!
Pappy

by Pappy (61 articles, 0 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 860 comments) on Friday, January 25, 2008 at 11:55:50 PM

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Professor Emeritus Peter BagnoloProfessor Bagnolo is a Renaissance man: Cultural Anthropologist, Architectural designer, painter, writer, novelist, theologian. As a child prodigy, abed with polio for almost two years, with an off the charts IQ, reading at the graduate level by 5th grade, offered an opportunity to skip three grades at age 8.Later He was a recipient of an Art Institute scholarship at age 11, a Ford Foundation Fellowship in Anthropology and in Painting and a merit scholarship in art, and was appointed a Graduate ...

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Fine piece. I was going to write a similar one, but I will now refrain. I like yours better. Besides mine is/was too long. Well I am Italian, we like to make art news and news art and Hell aside from a few dalliances I don't see the Dems offering anything better like taxing the Hell the Outsourcing Economic Criminals.

They are all in this together. FDR & Babe Ruth are dead and all of their imitators are frauds and they were our saviors at about the same Period of history, the last Great depression and we will have one econ-pac or not!

Great success can be had by cleverly shorting the Diamonds and Spyders. Shorting the Hell out of the Bushite empire in the market, that is the way to go.

by Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo (144 articles, 1 quicklinks, 95 diaries, 1311 comments) on Saturday, January 26, 2008 at 6:09:38 AM

The Risk Averse Alert - Patience Pays

- Simple guidance from an investment leader
- Safety is the Secret to explosively growing a 401(k)

Tom ChechatkaThe Risk Averse Alert - Patience Pays

- Simple guidance from an investment leader
- Safety is the Secret to explosively growing a 401(k)

Hold up Shorty

The "fix" probably is in. So, I will not be so quick to short the Diamonds and the Spyders. In fact, me thinks once last Tueday's (1/22/08) Ambac Panic lows are, over days coming, revisited for another free glass of bittersweet Fed juice so intoxicating to Fascists, Bravehearts whose wisdom knows "When in Rome, do as the Romans do," probably will find better opportunity getting long the Qs, at least until the sun sets on this summer's national conventions.

Then, once the political stage has been set, get shorty.

And beware things meant to kick Herr Johnny B. Good straight into the Emperor's Throne...

by Tom Chechatka (6 articles, 1 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 51 comments) on Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 12:13:18 PM

SS-PS

A digg for Sandy!

by Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo (144 articles, 1 quicklinks, 95 diaries, 1311 comments) on Saturday, January 26, 2008 at 6:10:33 AM

Small town gal from a large Irish family.
Agatha PayneSmall town gal from a large Irish family.

Sandy

I Dugg your article also and I agree w/the Prof. Heck, I always agree with the Prof. If he held up his article for yours, that was a complement of the highest order.
Good work! None of my staff believes this package is anywhere near just and right, so I gave them all a larger bonus than the the "Rebate," certainly Jobs creation is the key and jobs are not what the depopulation Fascists desire. Well, the Neo-cons know what they desire/stand for, and I know what I desire/stand for but the Democrats don't quite seem to know, other than to be as rich as their opponents, what they stand for or desire in the realm of justice. They seem to be a one issue crew-abortion and that issue, as the Prof has said more than once, is what gave us the "Bushites!"

by Agatha Payne (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 50 comments) on Saturday, January 26, 2008 at 6:36:14 AM

Where Do I Apply?

I could use a 'real' bonus.

Right now I'm happy with the Diggs and the nice words from you and Pete.

by Sandy Sand (143 articles, 0 quicklinks, 196 diaries, 1379 comments) on Saturday, January 26, 2008 at 9:18:12 AM

Checks and Balances

"...no one in the government was minding the mortgage lending stores."

"[The Senators and Representatives] shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses..." -- U.S. Constitution; Article I, Section 6

This notion of "Breach of the Peace" is interesting. What defines this? What is the dividing line? Might it be all things mandated government in our Constitution's Preamble?

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity..."

Do blatant acts in defiance of this mandate (such as allowing circumstances that lead millions to become bankrupt and homeless) constitute a "Breach of the Peace?"

I ask because a crop of well-connected, incarcerated criminals (who, today, are thought "respectable") would make for a check on those remaining outside the can who might foolishly play their next Terror card in the incidious game called Global Fascism...

by Tom Chechatka (6 articles, 1 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 51 comments) on Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 12:49:34 PM