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If you are expecting a big stimulus rebate, how does $10 a week sound?
The Intellectual Redneck ^ | February 2, 2009 | The Intellectual Redneck

Posted on 02/02/2009 6:38:42 PM PST by Askwhy5times

Many people remember the $600 or $1200 dollar stimulus rebate they got from President Bush. They were expecting more from Barack Obama. They were wrong. The Democratic stimulus bill before the Senate only gives individuals a maximum of $10 a week more in take home pay. Joint filers can get a maximum of $20. That is $500 per individual and $1000 per family spread over one year. Some low end and high end wage earners won't even get that much.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: 10; rebate; stimulus
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I think I will spend my ten dollars at McDonald's.
1 posted on 02/02/2009 6:38:42 PM PST by Askwhy5times
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To: Askwhy5times

Why?


2 posted on 02/02/2009 6:42:27 PM PST by mplsconservative
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To: Askwhy5times

Oh geeze I’ll make you dinner. I could use the money. LOL


3 posted on 02/02/2009 6:42:37 PM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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Hey thats 40 bucks a month...I could take a date to the pizza prlor down the street that has 99 cent beer and chow down once a month. Well Obama said he was gonna make government “cool”.


4 posted on 02/02/2009 6:45:07 PM PST by screaminsunshine (f)
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>>I think I will spend my ten dollars at McDonald’s.

How awful! You can’t use that to support Big Food!!!! You need to use it on the local mom and pop stores. So figure on a single 50 count set of napkins, 1 40 of Malt Liquor and a 4-pack of Pampers for your dime.


5 posted on 02/02/2009 6:45:11 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks.)
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I think I will spend my ten dollars at McDonald's

Are you going to have a McRibb?

Might as well have some pork with your pork!

6 posted on 02/02/2009 6:46:32 PM PST by hercuroc
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To: Askwhy5times

Well lets see....

A trillion dollars divided by the 40 million people who actually pay any taxes = $25,000 cost per tax payer.

In exchange I get $10 a week back?

Yeah, that’s about right for a Democratic program.

For the record, my wife and I would just get our $50,000 in cash.


7 posted on 02/02/2009 6:46:49 PM PST by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.)
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To: cripplecreek

And the little skinny runt puts crooks in office.


8 posted on 02/02/2009 6:48:18 PM PST by jocko12
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To: Askwhy5times
Worse than that, Obama will give us all debit cards with his picture on them, you can only use the card at certain stores that need stimulating such as Piggly Wiggly.
9 posted on 02/02/2009 6:50:28 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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What was the amount the Democrats estimated the average American family would save when the price of gasoline fell due to drilling in ANWR and the outer continental shelf? Remember? The amount that they said was “insignificant.”


10 posted on 02/02/2009 6:51:57 PM PST by Steely Tom (RKBA: last line of defense against vote fraud)
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To: Askwhy5times

No 72 inch BFLCDTV???? :-(


11 posted on 02/02/2009 6:52:12 PM PST by Dallas59 (Not My President)
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“And the little skinny runt puts crooks in office.”

With Republican Senators helping to vote them in. I guess they don’t want to be called racists, so they side with traitors bent on destroying the Republic.


12 posted on 02/02/2009 6:55:29 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two wolves and one sheep deciding what's for dinner.)
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A woman who works at the local general store, angrily told the breakfast crowd, as she served them their morning coffee, eggs, pancakes, etc; that she had just found out her IRS tax refund check would be short the amount which she had received in the last "stimulus" check..she had expected $1200 and was only getting around $900.
She WAS NOT HAPPY!
(Reality Bites)

I never got a check. I didn't want a check and hope that the one that got it..had a ball!

13 posted on 02/02/2009 6:57:27 PM PST by fight_truth_decay
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how does $10 a week sound?

I want my $93,000 a year cover my expenses. $10 a week is $520 a year? The royals of Congress think they are worth way more than that. We get $520 a year, they get $93,000 a year? And it all comes out of the same pocket....which ain't their pocket!

14 posted on 02/02/2009 6:57:32 PM PST by PistolPaknMama (We're mad, but when do we get REALLY mad?)
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I’ll have to save up a long time to buy that muffler at $10 bucks a week. Or maybe Michelle could fork over to me the the cash she would use on earrings.


15 posted on 02/02/2009 6:59:40 PM PST by A message
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To: fight_truth_decay

The “stimulus” check doesn’t effect your refund.


16 posted on 02/02/2009 7:09:55 PM PST by Graybeard58
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To: Askwhy5times
Last time they too many people saved the money and it did not have the desired affect which made the socialists in Congress angry, so this time they want to dole it out $10 a week thinking people will not want to save the such a small amount each week. We should start a movement to do exactly that and added another $10 to amount saved

What they are doing with the stimulus package is shameful. With the current stimulus package the Democrats are condemning future generations to fiscal slavery. SHAME ON THEM!

17 posted on 02/02/2009 7:12:03 PM PST by reader25
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Democrats estimated the average American family would save when the price of gasoline fell due to drilling in ANWR

Little on and off topic:

People are driving less, better mileage vehicles, gas prices dropped...so my state govt. just implemented higher toll rates which started today. If you pay ahead or upfront with an EZPass you can still go through for $.60 (the cheaper booths); but if you pay with..yes..CASH, it will now cost $1.00 in that scenario. Being a more rural state and many parts a much poorer state than most, 39th in population..will hurt those that do not have credit cards, or live bare bones minimum. The back roads will see heavier traffic. They figured would get the tourists, but being Govt idiots they do not realize that vacationers south of us already have the EZPass as more highways whence they come ..Thus, hits the poorer in state families, small business etc. I had 18-wheelers lined up behind me. The lady in front of me did not have a $1.00, so as the line grew while the attendant took a picture of her license plates and they passed back and forth papers..when I think I have seen it all!!!

18 posted on 02/02/2009 7:15:39 PM PST by fight_truth_decay
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Her refund will be $300 less..taken as an "earlier" refund aka stimulus..everyone was talking about it today.
19 posted on 02/02/2009 7:18:20 PM PST by fight_truth_decay
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To: Askwhy5times

Make mine Subway.


20 posted on 02/02/2009 7:19:49 PM PST by kalee (01/20/13 The end of an error.)
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