Don't want it? Give it to me. For the sake of convenience, you can write me a $52.00 check at the end of each month. Thank you.

Well I disagree with the never get better statement. It will, in time.
Everything else is right on.
To tell the banks to figure it out themselves. To tell the big three (no longer, I guess they're the mismanaged three) to get bent.

The banks would not fail. The banks would do something. We gave them a shitload of money and they did something, they went to insane resorts and had a party. If we gave them nothing, they'd liquidate some assets like all the houses they forclosed on.

In my wildest dreams, Ford would go up in smoke. GM would straighten out it's act and Chrysler would get bought out by GM and the brands would be dissolved.
If real life, Ford would survive on the massive sum of cash they're sitting on. Chrysler would get some sucker to buy them and GM would go up in smoke. Toyota or perhaps Honda would buy all GM assests at a very low percentage on the dollar, hire a lot of the GM workers and everything would be dandy.
Business is like nature. You can mess with it all you like, but the fact of the matter is quite simply, you can't stop the tornado or wildfire. At best you can avoid it and maybe delay it, but it will still burn.

Oh, and that Tokay gecko is gonna cost you $300 to set up a small habitat for him. The light bulbs you need to replace every six months run about $40 each.

No energy policy gave us the gas crisis. Government "fairness" directives precipitated the irresponsible lending. We have elected a wet-behind-the-ears Chicago lawyer and expect finanacial brilliance. This is the biggest spending bill in history. A decent tax cut would have stimulated the economy. Hope? Change? Help!

The people 'at the lower end of the pay scale' do not have tax liability and will therefore have a zero net gain from this. The money may hit throughout the year but will come out of there end of year return handouts credits.

As a result of the stimulus, Walmart has boosted its quarterly projections as they expect consumers to spend more ($13/week), most likely on cheap foreign made electronics and non-essentials. As I said in another thread awhile back, as with last years stimulus checks, the only retail winner in this stimulus is Walmart.



Some things should be allowed to fail. We are merely slapping a band-aid on the inevitable... many of the recipients are still terminal.

what he said.