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The checks go out today...... - 4/28/2008 9:34:13 AM

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The "stimulus" checks get mailed out today.

What are you going to with the money?

Do you think it will make any difference to the US economy?

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RE: The checks go out today...... - 4/28/2008 12:12:37 PM

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pay bills. the only thing it will stimulate is my credit rating!
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RE: The checks go out today...... - 4/28/2008 12:14:22 PM

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pay bills. the only thing it will stimulate is my credit rating!
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or you could buy me a couple boxes of butterfinger crisp...its only about $25...
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RE: The checks go out today...... - 4/28/2008 12:14:54 PM

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Bills.

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RE: The checks go out today...... - 4/28/2008 12:16:55 PM

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Savings.

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RE: The checks go out today...... - 4/28/2008 12:17:27 PM

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Invest it in Euros.

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RE: The checks go out today...... - 4/28/2008 12:20:26 PM

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No, I don't think it will help the economy at all. It's going in the bank and deliberately into savings. Financial irresponsibility is a main reason the economy is in such a mess. People should have been saving their money and not blowing it on things they couldn't afford 8 years ago. Now the government wants us to take this money and go blow it all at Home Depot and Starbucks? Not fucking likely; at least on my end. I have always been a tightwad, but I am being more so now.

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RE: The checks go out today...... - 4/28/2008 12:21:01 PM

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I think you should use yours for a downpayment on a

Harley!

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RE: The checks go out today...... - 4/28/2008 12:25:07 PM

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Car and Home repair that has been put off until now.
Better to repair the car than buy new, and better to put the money into the house than most anyplace else I can think of.

Tax refund was higher and has already been used to pay down debt.

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RE: The checks go out today...... - 4/28/2008 12:25:14 PM

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I think you should use yours for a downpayment on a

Harley!

there went the tea dammit.......

in case anyones interested http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=177937,00.html will let ya get an estimate of how much and when you will get it.......

mine will go to bills.........and i think a bit of tha merrywanna

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RE: The checks go out today...... - 4/28/2008 12:25:41 PM

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The "stimulus" checks get mailed out today.

What are you going to with the money?

Hookers and whiskey. Or bills, and a new bbq pit.

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Do you think it will make any difference to the US economy?

No, not really. The economy is in a bit of quicksand, and the stimulus checks are like trying to extricate oneself with a spork.

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RE: The checks go out today...... - 4/28/2008 12:43:03 PM

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RE: The checks go out today...... - 4/28/2008 12:52:13 PM

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Invest it in Euros.

Check out the forward rates first Popeye! Sterling hit an all time low of 1-23 a week or so ago, and now its climbed several points higher; I dont follow the USD particularly and the above could be a strengthening of Sterling or an adjustment to the Euro. Be careful - though I dont think that if you did lose, you'd lose much on the Euro. We should have been in on it from the start.

And here's a cheery thought. Last summer, my company had a surplus of sixty thousand Euros from trading. Not having much use for them, we arranged to pay our main supplier with them, instead of paying in GBP - no need to convert them or pay more bank charges. Sixty thousand Euros back then was around £42k. If we'd sold them at the low a while back we'd have got nearly £49k. But then, hindsight is a wonderful thing and had we known then what we know now, we'd be currency traders instead of lowest of the low road hauliers.

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RE: The checks go out today...... - 4/28/2008 12:58:24 PM

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No difference to the economy. I think they were talking about an overhaul on social security a while back.
You get 500 to invest for your retirement. One could look at it as getting a one hundred dollar raise.

Anyway no plans for our 1200 here. Just to the bank.

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RE: The checks go out today...... - 4/28/2008 12:59:22 PM

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RE: The checks go out today...... - 4/28/2008 1:04:47 PM

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Louis Black made an interesting comment that the $600 would buy you one cupcake per day for a year. Let us eat Cake!!!!!

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RE: The checks go out today...... - 4/28/2008 1:14:28 PM

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- credit card paydown 35%
-some new camping gear 10%
-silver bullion 10%
- our rainy day fund 45%

I do think the majority will spend all of it on consumer goods, eating out and traveling, BUT I don't think it will "boost" the economy like they anticapate (hope & pray) that it will. Give us this money is like trying to bale out the Titanic.

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RE: The checks go out today...... - 4/28/2008 1:16:25 PM

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RE: The checks go out today...... - 4/28/2008 1:22:03 PM

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part bills, part paying for the divorce. once its filled (looks over at the notorized paperwork) things will feel much more like its a real thng.

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RE: The checks go out today...... - 4/28/2008 1:47:18 PM

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I think you should use yours for a downpayment on a

Harley!

Hey that gives me an idea. I can buy one of those big ass pickup trucks with the brush guards on it. That way I don't feel the impact when I nudge them crank dealing motherfuckers off the road. LOL.

I AM KIDDING for those of you without my wonderful, childish, three stooges like sense of humor. I know all of you bikers aren't crank dealers. Some of you only use it to stay up drinking for a week, and I am perfectly cool with that.

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