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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Jasmina on July 09, 2010, 04:56:08 PM
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Sometime this year, we taxpayers will again receive another 'Economic Stimulus' payment. This is indeed a very exciting program, and I'll explain it by using a Q & A format:
Q. What is an 'Economic Stimulus' payment?
A. It is money that the federal government will send to taxpayers.
Q. Where will the government get this money?
A. From taxpayers.
Q. So the government is giving me back my own money?
A. Only a smidgen of it.
Q. What is the purpose of this payment?
A. The plan is for you to use the money to purchase a High-definition TV set, thus stimulating the economy.
Q. But isn't that stimulating the economy of China ?
A. Shut up.
Below is some helpful advice on how to best help the U.S. Economy by spending your stimulus check wisely:
If you spend the stimulus money at Wal-Mart, the money will go to China or Sri Lanka .
If you spend it on gasoline, your money will go to the Arabs.
If you purchase a computer, it will go to India , Taiwan or China .
If you purchase fruit and vegetables, it will go to Mexico , Honduras and Guatemala .
If you buy an efficient car, it will go to Japan or Korea .
If you purchase useless stuff, it will go to Taiwan .
If you pay your credit cards off, or buy stock, it will go to management bonuses and they will hide it offshore.
Instead, keep the money in America by:
Spending it at yard sales, going to ball games, spending it on prostitutes, beer, and tatoos.
These are the only American businesses still operating in the U.S.
Conclusion: Go to a ball game with a tattooed prostitute that you met at a yard
sale and drink beer all day!
No need to thank me, I'm just glad I could be of help. ;D
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Actually for me this is good news... I am hoping for some stimulus to trigger sales of HDTV because I work in this industry. It is absolutely untrue that all the development in HDTV goes on in China... Here in Silicon Valley I work for a company which is one of the top three companies developing chips used in set-top boxes and Blu-Ray disc players.... It would be excellent news for my company if something like this happened!!!
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Heeey, it was just a joke....did you like the "Shut up" part? ;D I found it hillarious!!
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Hi Jasmina.
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Heeey, it was just a joke....did you like the "Shut up" part? ;D I found it hillarious!!
Yes, I see and I understand it was meant as a joke... It does seem sometimes that nothing is made in America and all the stimulus money goes to foreign countries. I am fortunate to work in the hot-bed of development here in America and I know that there are a lot of very productive engineers here...
I was joking about this very topic last week when I said I wished Obama would give stimulus for purchasing HDTV units..
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Hi Lisa!!! :)
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Funny
stimulus = sugar high
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Sounds like something for the Al Bundy's of America.
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Sounds like something for the Al Bundy's of America.
Quite true ;D
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Actually for me this is good news... I am hoping for some stimulus to trigger sales of HDTV because I work in this industry. It is absolutely untrue that all the development in HDTV goes on in China... Here in Silicon Valley I work for a company which is one of the top three companies developing chips used in set-top boxes and Blu-Ray disc players.... It would be excellent news for my company if something like this happened!!!
I think that a stimulus will do very little to trigger chip R&D... I think electronics companies will always put a set amount of money aside to develop the next up and coming idea... I am against anymore government handouts... One way or another the money comes directly out of hard working Americans pockets in the form of higher taxes or an inflated currency. It's time to let the market dictate the correction that needs to come because in the end the correction will come wanted or not anyway. The continuation of the Bush tax cuts after this year would be the best stimulus of all. Let the shvartza President shove his 3 or 4 hundred dollars stimulus check up his black a-s for all the good it will do in the long run.
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I'm back! ;D
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I'm back! ;D
From Hawaii?
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Allow a new set of cold war to start. All the priorities shall automatically get settled and refreshed.
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Allow a new set of cold war to start. All the priorities shall automatically get settled and refreshed.
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What start it's never stopped... What do you think China is doing playing Tiddlywinks?.... I don't know what settlement or refreshment your looking for but I don't think your going to get the one you like going that route.