Comments on: Poll: Bill-Paying Tops Rebate Check Plans
Most Americans Expect To Receive Rebate, Half Plan To Use Money To Pay Bills
- Careful that you don''''t "burn your bridges" - according to Chris Mayer writing in Agora Financial''''s "Rude Awakening" newsletter:
"Chinese investment soared from only $66 million in 2006 to $9.6 billion last year."
lolll...if their investment levels keep surging at that rate, they''''ll be our masters within a decade.
(Don''''t ya know when you hear the word "surge" anymore you''''re about to be poked?)
Anyway, way to go, Bill Clinton and the rest of the Republicans - ya done sold us.
Posted by ibsteve2u at 10:22 AM : Apr 29, 2008
America burned its bridges when it allowed outsourcing and pimping of American businesses overseas with no protections for its domestic market--to date, we were the only nation not to put safeguards in place to protect our own workforce--those bridges have been long gone, the only reason most Americans never realized this, is that we have been using all the carcasses at the bottom of the pit as a means to get to the other side--but now...even they are deteriortating and we are going to discover that we have no saftety net. - Reply to this comment
- Since when is it the responsibility of the U.S. government to pay your bills.
Posted by mbcsmith at 10:26 AM : Apr 29, 2008
to my knowledge, the government has never paid my bills--I make far too much to ever qualify for any rebate. But you miss the point--since when does the government jump in to pay anyone''s bills? This rebate is a joke--but to work, it would have to be done every single month...probably twice a month. - Reply to this comment
- Posted by veteran72 at 10:33 AM : Apr 29, 2008
Reverend Wright, is that you? I could tell by the hatred and America bashing. - Reply to this comment
- In Los Angeles back in the early 80''s, I was talking to this Korean guy who told me they didn''t use banks or other regular forms of financing their businesses. They belonged to a "club", in which each member put up $5 or 10K, and they''d draw names out of a hat, and that person got the money to start his own business, and had a certain amount of time to pay it back, then they''d draw again, and so on, until they all had their own businesses and didn''t have to work for anyone. I thought that was a pretty smart thing.
He said not one of them had ever failed to pay back the money, and there was a 100% success rate of businesses. I think other Asians like Vietnamese were doing this also. There aren''t too many of these people that work for Corporations like Americans do.
Why is it most Americans would rather work for some Corporation, with all their rules and control over their personal lives, than become their own bosses??
I think Fat, Lazy and Stupid has become the description which best describes most Americans.
The middle class "American Dream" lifestyle is gone and it isn''t coming back.
Get out of the matrix, people. Fire your slave owner Corporate bosses and take back control of your own life.
Do something, ANYTHING, even if you have to set up shop at a swap meet to begin with, get out on your own and don''t look back. Living week to week on a paycheck from some Corporate Nazi Slavemaster is no way to spend your life. - Reply to this comment
- Uh huh..long as we keep counting our corporations'''' overseas profits as part of our GDP...
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Posted by ibsteve2u at 10:27 AM : Apr 29, 2008
Yeah, so? - Reply to this comment
Posted by zoe2006 at 09:41 AM : Apr 29, 2008
The word is lose. Loose is the opposite of tight.
I am an Obama supporter, I think HRC is Bush in a blue pant suit. If she is the nominee, we will be voting for McCain. I don''t like her UHC plan with some of her largest contributors being big pharm, health care and insurance companies, I don''t like her divisive campaign tactics, I don''t like her lies, I don''t like her spend, spend, spend mentality (as long as it''s not her money) I don''t like her duplicity in NAFTA, CAFTA and her and her husband making 800K by triangulating who is for or against issues. I don''t believe in dynasties or monarchies for our country and since I DO read the issues, I KNOW that the cause of the 1990s economic boom was NOT Clinton or the Dems. It was the higher taxes raised by Bush SR that cost him a second term, by severe cuts across the military and social programs, the dot com industry and Clinton not vetoing the cuts and the GOP controlled Congress not spending the surplus--I can think of no greater disaster than a Corrupt Clinton administration coupled with a spend happy Democratic congress while this country is already on the ropes economically, socially, and spiritually (ie the immoral Iraq war) Sorry--McCain is still a lesser evil than the dynamic duo of Hillary and Bill and given the ploys to get in office, I will not aid or abet that kind of campaign with my votes and neither will the people I influence.- Reply to this comment
- The American economy is still the 800 pound gorilla. Ten times larger than any other Gross national product on the planet.
Posted by mbcsmith at 10:25 AM : Apr 29, 2008
Uh huh..long as we keep counting our corporations'' overseas profits as part of our GDP... - Reply to this comment
- Dear Bush and Congress:
In order for the tax rebate to truly work and jumpstart the economy, Americans will be needing the same amount every other week for the next two years. LMAO
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Posted by b-easy63 at 09:57 AM : Apr 29, 2008
Since when is it the responsibility of the U.S. government to pay your bills. - Reply to this comment
- The British pound is rising faster than the Euro. At present, the pound is worth over 2 times the value of the dollar.
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Posted by b-easy63 at 10:00 AM : Apr 29, 2008
The American economy is still the 800 pound gorilla. Ten times larger than any other Gross national product on the planet. - Reply to this comment
- They said the last one was not taxable also--but it appeared as a tax credit on my next years return (because I did not get the rebate) and I bet it did not appear as a credit on any of those who did get a rebate. You always pay, they just have rewritten how you are told that horrible truth, that''''s all.
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Posted by b-easy63 at 10:12 AM : Apr 29, 2008
The last one was just that, a credit. Money you didn''t have to pay. This one is NOT taxable according to legislation paseed by Congress. - Reply to this comment
Ex-NBA ref Tim Donaghy 
