HOUSE PASSES $100 BILLION ECONOMIC STIMULUS PACKAGE !

[MegalosSkylaki]

Hope I heard it Right!!

HA !

Yesterday, I Posted The "Benjamin Harrison'$" thread about the BEEG DOOG Congrassional Laxitive and Look what Happens !
AHH ! The Power of TecHIMO

More news as available but don't spend your tax cut or whatever yet!

The Senate has yet to "pass".

my apologies if I got it wrong

DOOOG

[brandon184]

I agree, that's quite the coincidence.



Good-day, fair sir and/or ma'dam.


- Brandon

[caddmannq]

Hey, D G,

You sure you ain't been sniffin' about the Senate office building?

I'd sure like to know about 30 minutes before they actually pass that bill.

Sometimes it takes that long to get my daytrading website up & running if the market's active.

[MegalosSkylaki]

Insider trading is illegal and I get ten %.

[Ed_S]

So....apparently you see congress frittering away OUR tax and social security funds as being a good thing??

[caddmannq]

I get ten %.

No prob, Dooogie!

Get me the goods & I'll toss you a bone.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

As for the actual package, this is what drives the world (private, business and government):

Payola. Pure and simple.

Business will get people back to work as soon as the government greases the wheels. Government will re-fill the public coffers when all those working bodies quit drawing public assistance and start paying their withholding taxes.

Government and business leaders will pat themselves on the back with a nice raise for making it all happen.

We'll all re-elect them to make sure we keep on working.

It's sort of a circular checks-and-balances, all based on bribing each other to get what we want.

It's not a "good" system. It's an evil one: but it works.

Better the devil you know....
Cadd.

[MegalosSkylaki]

I AM SURE the Congress will well-squander our tax dillars on eminently worthy causes such as:

1) Congressional raises in salary;
2) Freebies to Corperative (and "Union") doners;
3) Additional nuclear weapons such as bombs;
4) Dismantlaling and clean-up of nuclear bombs;
5) A raise for Alan Greenspan and the entire Fed who, having determined the economic boom could not sustain itself, decided to end it on there own.
6) Flood control programs for Arizona and Drought programs for Washington State;
7) Subsidies to Airlines that layoff workers so management will not lose the spending power of their annual bonuses;
8) An expanded Congrassional internship program;
9) An Office of Congressional Intern Training (Bill Clinton, Dir.);
!0) A distillary in Kentucky to modify the BEEG DOOG Congrassional Laxative formula to 150 proof;
11) A committee to study for ten years the wage-witholding provisions based on laid off workers included in said Laxative;

Ed_S,
Yes the noble House of Congress has many avenues for their largesse . Feel free to add your own suggestions as to how your tax dollars will be spent.

But please do so with the urgency born of awareness that your own job or business may be in jeopardy should this Recession gather steam as it has done by the day.

Certainly, others should feel free to add to my modest list.

Best wishes to all!

deD G

[Ed_S]

Oh, I do make suggestions! And I've often recommended that everyone else do so, as well. Here's the index of addresses to which those suggestions should be sent: Vote-Smart

As to the recession "hitting home", well...if & when, I'm prepared.
Been saving for a lifetime, have no debt whatsoever, and live frugally. I can weather quite a storm, if need be. w/o "help".

Do I want to see these things happen? To anyone? No, of course not. But I believe strongly in planning for the future & taking care of yourself. And I'm very much against gov "assistance" (handouts) to those who failed to do so!

[MegalosSkylaki]

Errr...Ed_S We are talking about people's right to try to make a living. Not hand-outs.

And while you can live on next to nothing , you cannot live on nothing.

So when those starving multitudes wend their way to your door, will you be prepared to live on nothing?

You may also recall that the economy was bumpng along as it does fairly alright until some Federal employees --called "The Fed" decided that interest rates were not smart enough to be set by the market economy, and convinced some cowardly congressmen to pretend they understood a word he was saying (Greenspan:"Withdrawal of liquidity"; English: "to sell") and allowed the Fed to micro-manage --and worse, talk down the economy to " a soft landing" like they could orchestrate it.

A stimulus package at this point is absolutely necessary to restore liquidity where it counts the most--in the hands of those who will spend it.

The Fed, in my opinion, should be pretty much abolished and let the market set interest rates. The market pretty much does anyway, so why have some jokers "badmouth" public expectation with "rate hikes" and create a self-fullfilling premise with speeches you need yellow sub-titles to understand.

My especial hopes to all those who seek a job to earn a living, Godspeed ! DOOOG

[MegalosSkylaki]

I HAD heard iy right!

Now that noble body of unlimited debate , unable to "pass" any Bill of its own--Hmmm..not enough 'proof' in the BEEG DOOG Congrssional Laxative or are their salaries just chump change to them--to , in the words of Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott,

"I am pleased that we have agreed on a procedure to begin discussions towards achieveing an economic security package."

Hmm... "agreed on a procedure to begin discussions" .....must have at least induced a sense of "urgency" !

Ah! Congress !
Errr...which Member lives "near" all this hub of of underwhelming activity ?


Has a Recession been officially declared yet ?

D G