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January 25, 2008 at 17:21:23

There's Nothing Titillating in the Economic Stimulus Package

by Sandy Sand     Page 1 of 3 page(s)

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It's not a rebate!  It's not a refund!  It's a loan, baby!

To even call it a "rebate" isn't even proper use of the English language, because a rebate is money you get back after paying full price. "Rebate" is as phoney as the war on terror, because you can't wage a war on an emotion.

It's not a rebate; it's an advance against future tax refunds, if you're among the tax payers with financial ass-covering foresight who have too much money taken out of your paycheck in the first place.

The only people who seem to be turned on by Bush's economic stimulus package are major corporations, congressional leaders who are looking for a quick fix and 15 second sound bites and the press.

The press finds it sexy, because "tax rebates" sound good, they're easy to talk about in banner headlines and good for newspaper sales and TV ratings.

The arousal withering details are in the fine print that is either too small to read or hasn't been written yet, because the stimulus package is far from being put to bed.  Only Congress will be excited about the details when they get down to quickening each others passions in heated debates.

Like the "rebates" of 2001, they are nothing more than advances on 2008 income taxes...a loan.  For anyone who has to pay tax, he will have to pay more when the IRS piper comes knocking; he will get less of a rebate; or worse...he will owe money.

Oh, sure. More tax breaks kindle the fires of lust for corporations, but it's just more of the same "trickle down" come hither sweet talk that is the only thing I can think of that defies gravity and flows up.

It's jobs, stupid! BF Jobs! Jobs Jobs!

Giving corporations more tax breaks does not jobs make.

People earning regular pay checks and spending them on necessities and a few extras is very stimulating.

So far I've heard very few members of congress say a word about JOBS to stimulate and excite the economy.

Inflame our passions by cutting out the lies that manufacturing in this country is dead.  Turn us on with taxing the hell out of American companies with offshore addresses.

Stir us with Roosevelt-type WPA projects that put people to work.  Our infrastructure is flagging faster than coitus interruptus with worry over one's finances.

WPA (Work Projects Administration) turn on the economy, not Republican Herbert Hoover-type 1928 campaign promises of "a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage," which was immediately followed by the stock market crash and depression of 1929 after Hoover was elected.

Ignite our interest by not offering corporations incentives to keep manufacturing and jobs here, but levy stiff penalties and fines for any corporation that has outsourced jobs, and create new, stiffer fines for corporations that outsource jobs in the future.

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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, ten minuted newscast for KGOE AM. Following the closure of the Chronicle, Sand became the editor of the Tolucan Times and Canyon Crier newspapers in Burbank. She is currently a guest columnist for the Los Angeles Daily News and contributor to ronkayela.com

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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, ten minuted newscast for KGOE AM. Following the closure of the Chronicle, Sand became the editor of the Tolucan Times and Canyon Crier newspape...

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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, ten minuted newscast for KGOE AM. Following the closure of the Chronicle, Sand became the editor of the Tolucan Times and Canyon Crier newspape...

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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 (129 articles, 0 quicklinks, 144 diaries, 1120 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, 24 diaries, 290 comments) on Friday, January 25, 2008 at 10:25:45 PM
 

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, ten minuted newscast for KGOE AM. Following the closure of the Chronicle, Sand became the editor of the Tolucan Times and Canyon Crier newspape...

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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, ten minuted newscast for KGOE AM. Following the closure of the Chronicle, Sand became the editor of the Tolucan Times and Canyon Crier newspape...

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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 (129 articles, 0 quicklinks, 144 diaries, 1120 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, 863 comments) on Friday, January 25, 2008 at 11:55:50 PM
 

Professor 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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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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SS

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, 94 diaries, 1185 comments) on Saturday, January 26, 2008 at 6:09:38 AM
 

The Risk Averse Alert is Power to Prosper

"Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?'

"And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'"

-- Matthew 7:22-23
GoldenTThe Risk Averse Alert is Power to Prosper

"Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?'

"And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'"

-- Matthew 7:22-23

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

Professor 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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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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SS-PS

A digg for Sandy!

by Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo (144 articles, 1 quicklinks, 94 diaries, 1185 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, 43 comments) on Saturday, January 26, 2008 at 6:36:14 AM
 

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, ten minuted newscast for KGOE AM. Following the closure of the Chronicle, Sand became the editor of the Tolucan Times and Canyon Crier newspape...

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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, ten minuted newscast for KGOE AM. Following the closure of the Chronicle, Sand became the editor of the Tolucan Times and Canyon Crier newspape...

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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.

SS

by Sandy Sand (129 articles, 0 quicklinks, 144 diaries, 1120 comments) on Saturday, January 26, 2008 at 9:18:12 AM
 

The Risk Averse Alert is Power to Prosper

"Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?'

"And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'"

-- Matthew 7:22-23
GoldenTThe Risk Averse Alert is Power to Prosper

"Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?'

"And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'"

-- Matthew 7:22-23

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

 

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