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Old 02-17-2008, 12:17 PM
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I'm pretty sure I'll get something, but not sure how much and don't really care. It will impact me little in the grand scheme of things. I'll put it in my Vanguard account, where it will do pretty much nothing for the economy.

While I agree with the portion of the stimulus package that focuses on businesses, this consumer tax rebate portion is a laugher. We're "solving" a problem by giving out money to the same people that CAUSED the problem in the first place, and expecting them to fix it? I realize there is no sensible solution to the approaching recession, but this seems absurd. Giving someone $1,000 isn't going to fix or change anything ... they'll spend it and then be right back where they started. It's like giving a homeless man a cheese sandwhich one Tuesday afternoon and expecting to find him managing a very successful upstart company by the weekend. He's going to wolf that sucker down, take a nice nap, and then wake up later that evening and say "oh crap, what am I going to do for dinner?"

Don't get me wrong, my greedy little hands love getting extra money, but it makes me a little queasy to see the rest of the country get all giddy over such a slapdash economic effort.
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