Sensibly Spending my Stimulus

1. June 2008 by Greg Kelver.

If I tried to get people to like me a little better by sending them “rebate” checks using money that I did not have in my bank account but could only get by forcibly taking it from someone else (aka theft), it probably wouldn’t be very long till Sheriff Mollenhauer and Prosecutor Beckman sent out a few of their guys to bring me in for a little chat.

But somehow, when our esteemed politicians do exactly that same thing and give it a fancy name like “Economic Stimulus Payment” nobody seems to notice that Big Gov is spending money that it doesn’t have either.  And the only way that they can get it is by forcibly taking it either directly in the form of increased taxation or indirectly by printing more inflation stressed dollars that cause $4 gallon gas and struggling families to pay more and more for less and less.

In the spirit of economic good sportsmanship, President “W” and his Congressional Cohorts who gave birth to the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008, should be thrilled to hear that I have just received and quickly spent my “Economic Stimulus Payment” - every last cent of it.  To get the biggest bang for my stimulated buck, I just invested it with some guy named Bob Barr 08 http://www.bobbarr2008.com/, and Libertarian Partiers in Washington D.C. www.lp.org , Indianapolis www.lpin.org, and LaPorte County www.lplp.org .

Let the good times roll!

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