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Uhm, my 401K is doing very very well.

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ORIGINAL: Thadius


If the full $820Billion was such an emergency, I suggest that perhaps the majority of the money should have been spent last year... The last numbers I saw, suggested that 2/3 of the money has yet to be spent. Now it is looking more like a slush fund, to be spent to help ensure certain seats are protected in the upcoming mid-terms. Like I said I am a bit cynical.

If I were president, and had to spend that money, I probably would have gone a completely different route. Hmmm, perhaps something along the lines of $2,000 to each man, woman and child (citizen or legal alien). Which would leave about $200Billion that could have been divided up to the state governments for infrastructure or job retraining programs. Not that I like the idea of spending that kind of money by the Federal govt, but hell the money belongs to us (the people), not the government.

Then again, I am just a simple man.

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ORIGINAL: LiveFreeAndSpank


Giving each citizen $50,000 would work wonders....

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

ACtually, he sent an early tax refund.

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ORIGINAL: LiveFreeAndSpank


Giving each citizen $50,000 would work wonders....

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ORIGINAL: Moonhead

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ORIGINAL: housesub4you

When will you learn, facts are meaningless to those who only think the GOP taxcuts are the greatest thing since the Reagan tax cuts

The really baffling thing about that is the way none of the apologist sheep seem to be rich enough to benefit any from the tax cuts themselves. It always puzzles me that people who are supposedly motivated by self interest are keen to bend over and get fucked up the arse without any lube by the tiny minority who own most of the country. Doubtless they hope to become rich themselves one day, but all of this redirecting money from the middle classes to the top 5% makes that a lot less likely, I'd have thought.

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ORIGINAL: SeekingAZ
And the lower the rich bastard's taxes are the less likely it'll be profitable for him to send the work overseas to cheaper countries with less fucked up governments and less undeserving spoiled ass brat employees that think they are entitled to a job.

Or in other words, some of us have gotten past kindergarten, and understand it is in our best interest to not have our employer's fucked up the ass by the government on behalf of the galatically stupid.

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ORIGINAL: LiveFreeAndSpank


Giving each citizen $50,000 would work wonders....

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ORIGINAL: AnimusRex

...Again, the essence of political conservatism (as outlined by Russell Kirk and others ) is caution, doubt, moderation and most of all balance.

We have allowed the Wall Street investment banks to become engorged with power, way out of balance with their true importance, and confused a cultish devotion to market absolutism with a reasoned balance between public good and private interests.