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1. #1
   On February 23rd, 2009 at 4:23 pm, sonofdy said:

   WAAAHHHOOOO $1 worth of government CHEESE and 8 dollars less tax!!!

   Thats enough for 1 and 1/2 big mac happy meals!!!!

   WWWAAAHHHOOO recession is OVER!!!

   

2. #2
   On February 23rd, 2009 at 4:24 pm, wighttrasch said:

   That’s ok–the dollar bills that the checks are good for haven’t been printed yet.

   They’ll print more when they need them!

3. #3
   On February 23rd, 2009 at 4:25 pm, flmom said:

   You really have to try hard to be as stupid as the fools in Washington, believe me, I’ve tried, it’s not as easy as it looks.

4. #4
   On February 23rd, 2009 at 4:26 pm, Jeddite said:

   Washington State would be paradise if we can just relocate the liberals into the Puget Sound. Or, if that would have an adverse effect on the local ecoloy, might I suggest the Pacific Ocean?

   I sorta knew what I was getting myself into when I moved here, but yeeeeeeeeeeeeesh

5. #6
   On February 23rd, 2009 at 4:29 pm, sonofdy said:

   Have you seen the dow? Lets party like it is 1997!!!!!!

6. #7
   On February 23rd, 2009 at 4:35 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

   Maybe China will buy the food stamps! Hillary’s on her knees now, begging them to buy our junk bonds! (any mind rending visuals incurred, are unintentional and not my fault!)

7. #8
   On February 23rd, 2009 at 4:38 pm, DagneyT said:

   Their ultimate goal is to get more stimulus money by increasing the welfare roles; it provides incentives to increase them, and removed Clinton’s only ONE “achievement” of his presidency; Welfare Reform! I keep expecting him to squeal like a stuck pig…/sarc.

8. #9
   On February 23rd, 2009 at 4:40 pm, onlybeef42 said:

   For another good laugh go to http://www.recovery.gov to ‘track’ stimulus spending. Notice the asterisk by ‘tax relief.’ Clicking the more info link (http://www.recovery.gov/?q=content/investments) reveals what the ‘tax relief’ in this ’stimulus’ really is.

9. #10
   On February 23rd, 2009 at 4:40 pm, onlybeef42 said:

   * Tax Relief – includes $15 B for Infrastructure and Science, $61 B for Protecting the Vulnerable, $25 B for Education and Training and $22 B for Energy, so total funds are $126 B for Infrastructure and Science, $142 B for Protecting the Vulnerable, $78 B for Education and Training, and $65 B for Energy.

   Where is that tax relief in that

10. #11
    On February 23rd, 2009 at 4:41 pm, DagneyT said:

    Onlybeef, we have to laugh…to keep from crying!

11. #12
    On February 23rd, 2009 at 4:43 pm, DagneyT said:

    $25 B for Education and Training

    Wonder if Ayers is in charge of this boondoggle?

    Anyone want to hazard a guess as to what the he!! is “Protecting the Vulnerable”?

12. #13
    On February 23rd, 2009 at 4:45 pm, sonofdy said:

    onlybeef42: I think is relief in the same way getting slammed repeatably in the testicals with a sladgehammer releives a man of the stress of fatherhood. Its about that logical and about that funny.

13. #14
    On February 23rd, 2009 at 4:45 pm, ErinF said:

    LOL! That sound like something Maine would do. My state actually ADVERTISES out to other states about how great our welfare program is up here, and people move here like cockroaches for that very reason.

    In fact, our state has bent over backwards to get thousands of America-loathing somalis up here. They get free housing, food, automobiles (I’m talking really nice new Toyota vans that I can’t even afford), and don’t have to work at all.

    And last week, I heard we’ll be starting to take in thousands of Iraqi refugees in the same manner.

    My state sucks. My senators and governor suck. Seriously thinking of moving to Alaska.

14. #15
    On February 23rd, 2009 at 4:45 pm, Cosmo said:

    Well, at least Washington State isn’t buying a $435 hammer to beat this into the heads of their citizenry.

    Of course, the hammer story is fake–this is, sadly, all too real.

15. #16
    On February 23rd, 2009 at 4:46 pm, Paul Revere said:

    That’s a lottery ticket!

16. #17
    On February 23rd, 2009 at 4:47 pm, sonofdy said:

    Where is bill ayers?

17. #18
    On February 23rd, 2009 at 4:53 pm, shooter said:

    the checks mailed Feb. 17 trigger an additional $43 million in federal food benefits.

    Ribas says the $1 check is a one-time move to leverage the federal money. He says next year the state will be able to trigger the federal assistance through a routine deposit in food stamp accounts.

    The whole thing is a trigger to send money to whomever they want to send it.
    Its a SCAM. A federal bailout scam to send money to more people now and in the future than ever before.

18. #19
    On February 23rd, 2009 at 5:00 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    I guess, the market slumped again. But all is not lost. My brother-in-law has made a ton of money shorting the market in the last few weeks and he and my sister are now retired-good thing. If he had lost my dear sister would he hitting me up for bail money.

    But who are the fools going long? But we have another version of it here in the border states: Illegals or even visitors having a baby here, applying for Social Security Supplemental for the darling child and going home.

    #
    Benefits For Children (09/04) (05-10085), En Español
    Hey, at least they are going home.

    Budget deficit, what deficit? Viva Mexico! Get to work you Yanqi punta. But an up and coming business here is wire transfers to Mexico, Latin America and such.

19. #20
    On February 23rd, 2009 at 5:03 pm, Flyoverman said:

    I know of a small town in my area that will give you two four dollar bills for that Obama eight dollar bill.

20. #21
    On February 23rd, 2009 at 5:04 pm, zyzzyg said:

    I wish the article had explained why it was necessary to mail the checks when it could have been done electronically, into the existing food stamp accounts. Was that the only trigger that would work? What were the requirements for the program? The reporter did a lousy job. Seems like it was just a press release that was copied and reprinted by the newspaper.

    Speculating – Is it because the food stamp accounts do not accept cash?

21. #22
    On February 23rd, 2009 at 5:04 pm, Flyoverman said:

    Another brilliant fiscal move from the people who want to manage my health care. MAG-nificent!

22. #23
    On February 23rd, 2009 at 5:11 pm, T J Green said:

    An essentially worthless gesture designed to “trigger” a 172-to-1 federal “match” of funds… or is this fraud on a grand scale?

23. #24
    On February 23rd, 2009 at 5:18 pm, The Ugly American said:

    The recovery package that we’re passing is only going to be one leg in, at least, a three-legged stool.

    Stool Boom!

24. #25
    On February 23rd, 2009 at 5:20 pm, behiker said:

    I hope the recipients are wise and don’t spend it all in one place. /sarc

25. #26
    On February 23rd, 2009 at 5:22 pm, sonofdy said:

    a three-legged stool.

    The most unstable type of stool.

26. #28
    On February 23rd, 2009 at 5:27 pm, BlameAmericaLast said:

    I can only blame the idiots who put these people into office in the first place.

    Not an elected position? Blame the idiot who is at the top. The buck stops there.

    So to say…

27. #30
    On February 23rd, 2009 at 5:33 pm, graysonret said:

    Another brilliant fiscal move from the people who want to manage my health care. MAG-nificent!

    You beat me to it, flyoverman. You really have to laugh over this. Otherwise, it would ruin your day knowing the idiots in control.

28. #31
    On February 23rd, 2009 at 5:44 pm, Joy said:

    #9 – That’s what hussein is calling tax relief? Calling Michael Steele! There’s another AD we need to air on Cable/TV etc.

    Not holding my breath.

29. #32
    On February 23rd, 2009 at 5:45 pm, Flyoverman said:

    You beat me to it, flyoverman. You really have to laugh over this. Otherwise, it would ruin your day knowing the idiots in control.

    Yes, I agree, you do have to laugh….

    Obama and his “team” remind me of that well told comment supposedly lifted from an Officer Efficiency Report that said,

    “His men will follow him anywhere, but only out of a sense of morbid curiosity.”

30. #33
    On February 23rd, 2009 at 5:46 pm, madshark said:

    I wouldn’t be too harsh regarding the $8 per week stimulus from the Federal Government. That should be enough to offset the increased sales tax and vehicle registration fees that were just imposed in my illustrious state of Kalifornia.

    /sarc

    BTW… Shouldn’t there by a TAX CHEAT stamp underneath the Treasury Secretary’s signature???

31. #34
    On February 23rd, 2009 at 5:47 pm, old trooper said:

    This is beyond foolish. Some punk appointee wants to leverage the Federal Government with a $1.00 check cheap trick?
    He is out of his mind!

    The Parliament of W*ores in DC can’t be shamed, they have no shame only an Agenda!

    If this was not the Nation that I Love I’d be laughing. These clowns have broken everything that needed fixing and things that weren’t broken and didn’t need to be fooled with as well.

    Incredible Arrogance and Unbelievable Ignorance abound. leadership, Hah, little L.

32. #35
    On February 23rd, 2009 at 5:49 pm, tarpon said:

    Acting President Obama is all about, well you know, acting.

33. #36
    On February 23rd, 2009 at 5:59 pm, RTater said:

    madshark – check it out: http://michellemalkin.com/2009/02/08/strike-back-at-tax-cheat-tim-geithner/

34. #37
    On February 23rd, 2009 at 6:02 pm, old trooper said:

    ErinF, my apologies but they wouldn’t let us stay longer in Mogadishu for rule .308 to prevail. Thank Bill Clinton for that.

    I Love my Country but every morning anymore it resembles a Third World Deployment country more than My America, and that is a very sobering view.

    A meat packing plant brought in Ethiopians two years ago. They don’t speak English but understand it. They live off a sniff of a chicken bone but send money home to get more of them here. They ignore VISA expiration dates
    and the only good thing is the fact that they don’t like anyone including our neighbors from South of The Border.

    Watching America become an entitlement Nation and Spanky & Our Gang loot the treasury. Ain’t it Grand!

35. #38
    On February 23rd, 2009 at 6:16 pm, The Ugly American said:

    Here’s yet another moronic money-wasting idea, courtesy of our own Mayor Villardonothing…

    Los Angeles residents can expect two free compact fluorescent light bulbs to be delivered to their front doors some time in the next three months as part of an energy-saving campaign announced today by the Department of Water and Power.

    DWP crews will personally deliver two CFL light bulbs to 1.2 million households during the next 12 weeks.

    Distributing the light bulbs will cost the utility about $3 million.

    Meanwhile, we’re still waiting for the rest of those 1,000 new police officers he promised us.

36. #39
    On February 23rd, 2009 at 6:30 pm, tiredofit08 said:

    On February 23rd, 2009 at 5:20 pm, behiker said:

    I hope the recipients are wise and don’t spend it all in one place. /sarc

    maybe they can con McYuckles to sell them half a sandwich off the dollar menu then splurge the remainder on bus fair for a couple of blocks…

37. #40
    On February 23rd, 2009 at 7:35 pm, CrazyFool said:

    I watched the news today and they showed our Governor (Wa. State) getting ready to go meet Obama to beg for some of that generation-theft loot. I think she had her kneepads in hand and everything – just to be ready.

    Disgusting!

38. #41
    On February 23rd, 2009 at 8:16 pm, tre said:

    It’s been said that the cream rises to the top. Well, I think a new metaphor is in order here.

    When gold is refined, the scum rises to the top and the gold stays on the bottom.

39. #44
    On February 23rd, 2009 at 11:35 pm, rightisright said:

    Who’s Michael Steele?

40. #45
    On February 23rd, 2009 at 11:36 pm, rightisright said:

    ooops…sar. off

41. #46
    On February 24th, 2009 at 6:12 am, tpitman said:

    Hillary’s on her knees now

    She probably asked Bill for some advice on dealing with the Chinese before her trip, and he said, “Well, I can’t say for sure, but that’s how Monica always did it.”

    Sorry.

    And what’s this about 8 bucks? I thought it was supposed to be 13. Are my expectations getting lowered again?

42. #47
    On February 24th, 2009 at 11:10 am, kthomas8268 said:

    Oh for …….. does anyone see a pattern here? How dumb elected officials are! (at least most of them)

    Does that reflect on the intelligence of American’s that vote? Something really needs to be done with education hahahha