Comments on: Stimulus Checks Making Economic Waves

Payments Give Huge Jolt To After-Tax Incomes And Consumer Spending But Boost May Not Last

[feelfree4u]

re: "But Boost May Not Last"

Ya think?

[demwatcher]

"How can people sit and take this *** any longer? The Bush administration thinks Americans are stupid. These reports are as bogus as the lies about oil prices. There is no way that small amount of money is going to stimulate an entire economy of a nation the size of the US. Any economist worth a hill of beans would laugh at it. Enron, did you forget? Rolling blackouts, well, welcome to Oilron. Same ***, different product. Impeach the chimp.

Posted by Lemonskink at 08:57 PM : Jun 27, 2008"

You deny the reported facts?

Typical Liberal, brainwashed dumbarse.

[barocalto]

I''m enjoying the money because if Obama is elected the only change I''ll see is what I have left over.

[ontheleft]

Enjoy the money folks. You''ll be paying it back with interest and also paying the price with even higher inflation over the next year. This whole borrowing scheme is the most inane idea to stimulate the economy. We can not borrow our way out of a recession. Go ahead and elect McCain. He knows even less about the economy than Bush does. Very scary. Iceberg straight ahead!

[lemonskink]

Ma, we''d better fill up the car iff''n we is going to make it to Californnnn I A. Once we get there Ma, well, they''ll be grapes, so sweet and juicy Ma, we can pick them right off the vines. Ma, the oil companies is a gittin rich, but when someone hands ya money, even if it''s crazy and lyin government Ma, well ya just has to take it.

[lemonskink]

How can people sit and take this *** any longer? The Bush administration thinks Americans are stupid. These reports are as bogus as the lies about oil prices. There is no way that small amount of money is going to stimulate an entire economy of a nation the size of the US. Any economist worth a hill of beans would laugh at it. Enron, did you forget? Rolling blackouts, well, welcome to Oilron. Same ***, different product. Impeach the chimp.

[shanev137]

Most people are going to use them to buy groceries, gas and payoff credit card debt.

[barocalto]

''''m using mine to buy a new set of irons.. Pings I think.

I agree I wasn''''t crazy about this whole stimulus check thing. But it did one good thing. It got the Democracts in congress to go along with George Bush once again and give him another victory. And to just think he is a lame duck president and he gets FISA, this Stimulus Package, increased funding for Irag, etc..., etc... Boy if Bush is an idiot then Nancy Polosi and Harry Reid must be dumb as a rock...

[wilmojo1]

See what i mean by the wasted time???? [e-mail]

[wilmojo1]

Why do you peop''s have to continue with the repeated comments??? It''s a waste of time if nothing else! [e-mail]

[barocalto]

I''m using mine to buy a new set of irons.. Pings I think.

I agree I wasn''t crazy about this whole stimulus check thing. But it did one good thing. It got the Democracts in congress to along with George Bush once again and give him another victory. And to just think he is a lame duck president and he gets FISA, this Stimulus Package, increased funding for Irag, etc..., etc... Boy if Bush is an idiot then Nancy Polosi and Harry Reid must be dumb as a rock...

[sociald63]

i gave mine to the my favorite soup kitchen in oakland, ca :)

[gce65]

Bush was hoping his "package stimulation" would create just enough of an economic bump to get him barely through to the end of his presidency. Then he''d hand off the whole bag of problems to the next president.

This is what he''s done his whole life.

Bush is a failure. And America elected him--TWICE!

America deserves where it''s at today.....

[gce65]

"Stimulus Checks Making Economic Waves"
A few waves are not a tide.
This was a gimmick, pure and simple, to trick people into believing the economy is okay. And it isn''''t.

There were a few non-partisan economists who looked at long trends over time and said this would be a long, painful recession. They were right, Bush was wrong.

[mr_totten]

For all purposes, the money might as well have been Monopoly money.

Posted by RandyNason
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Ohh, then give yours to you favorite chaity.

Do you have a favorite charity?

I have one.

If you don''t have on then let me know and I''ll post he name of mine.

[alphaa10-2009]

MJLewis6 said, "President Nixon STOPPED the inflation spiral during a recession by imposing a WAGE & PRICE FREEZE on the market and he had to deal with an OPEC oil embargo against the United States DURING the wind-down of the Viet Nam War....funny how Bush could not think of that."
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Bush is found wanting in a multitude of areas, but his chief hlndrance is he has been indebted to his handlers from his earliest days as a politician. These handlers include the people who claim Karl Rove, Grover Norquist, etc.-- a pantheon of anti-patriots, if there ever were one.

Whether you call them neocons or idiots, The Handlers are ideologues, and find it difficult to think outside their own self-constructed framework. Accordingly, rather than consider other policies from other presidents, they struggled to keep Bush blindered on what they wanted Their President to do.

Nixon, for all his warts, was cunning enough to grasp the OPEC embargo was an Arab vengeance weapon against the US, with the explicit aim of crippling the economy. This was retribution from the MidEast for American support to Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur war.

By imposing a wage and price freeze policy, Nixon quickly was assailted by purists who said no "free market" GOP president should do such a thing. Nixon''s reply, essentially, was he would not permit the Arabs to use predatory market tactics against America. "Now, I am a Keynesian..." Nixon said.

[thomderr]

Don''t forget Congress ... the voted for the economic package, also.!

[randynason]

The only thing that the stimulus checks managed to achieve was to throw us even deeper into debt. Bush is an even bigger idiot than we believed him to be. For all purposes, the money might as well have been Monopoly money.

[davidlar2]

The Wage and Price freeze under Nixon very pointedly did not work. It was a disaster that led to shortages. Inflation was stopped only when Volker raised interest rates above the rate of inflation and left them there until inflation subsided. That is what needs to happen now, except Bernanke is an idiot and won''t do that.

[gce65]

"Stimulus Checks Making Economic Waves"
A few waves are not a tide.
This was a gimmick, pure and simple, to trick people into believing the economy is okay. And it isn''t.

There were a few non-partisan economists who looked at long trends over time and said this would be a long, painful recession. They were right, Bush was wrong.