That much, huh? Wow. It might take me a while to figure out. Lots longer than it's taking the goofballs in Washington to NOT read the 1000 page bill and vote on something they haven't read.
This is too funny! How dumb can some people be? First of all, they don't even take the time to read the thing and then they expect us to get excited about $13 a week? That's a meal at IHOP for one person! How is that going to save our economy! Why did they even bother with all of the hoopla?! We are really in for some challenging times with these idiots running our country. Who voted for these idiots? And, what must their level of mentality be?
I wish I was getting $13 a week. From what people are telling me, since I stay home to take care of the kids I won't get any (makes sense) and since Jason lost his job and can't find one he isn't eligible either because you have to be working right now to get the money. I was also told that lower class (us) won't get anything because we aren't seen as people who will spend it in the right places.
Food's going up so I guess food. Not that i'll be buying more. I'll probably go buy less food for the extra $13.00. It doesn't help anyone if you think about how EVERYTHING else goes up as well :(
Kimberly L... I'll guarentee that I didn't vote for them! My rep is Jim Marshall... believe me.... I sent a letter, an email AND I called today. It won't make a difference to him... but at least he'll get my message! Both of my senators are Republican and are voting against the bill.
$13 a week is $676 extra a year people! Did you all expect $100 billion in each of your paychecks? Every little bit helps if you ask me! Although I heard it will be an extra $8 a week.
Anyway... any extra money goes to pay off our debt... and extra $52 extra a month is not too shabby if you ask me. Once we are debt free (other then our mortgage) we are putting our house on the market to buy a bigger one! Hopefully it sells but if not at least we live in a great neighborhood! I was planning on being debt free around September but maybe that extra $50 a month will make us debt free by August instead! Then we can save all of our money until the next spring!
Personnaly I think all the spending is a waste but if they are handing it out I'm taking it! I would think all of the budget friendly gatherers would be happy about a few extra $s!
Most of us are looking at the big picture.... read Alex in Wonderland's comment.
Also... this bill spends nearly a TRILLION dollars to generate spending? Really? It's no secret that big ticket items (housing, cars, etc) are the "quick fix" to getting the economy moving. With an additional $13 in their pockets, how many folks are going to rush out and buy those?
I'll assume that you and I are in similar boats... No debt other than mortgage, good jobs with "security", a healthy savings and investing plan, frugal-minded, living within our means.... blah, blah, blah. But let's agree that we are the exception and not the rule!
This bill is about more that just you and me. It's about lifting our economy.
Catfood, Cat litter, and of course butt wipe for me! I may have to start only useing one square though, other wise I will go over my $13.00 =( Can anyone spare a square? =p
Actually... $13 a week would help us! We have no savings... and we are paying off our debt after years of repayment! So that extra $13 a week will help us get out of debt that much quicker so maybe we have extra money to spend it in our economy! So maybe in one year we can buy different house and a new car (that is the whole point of the stimulus correct?)! We may be luckier then others but we have sacrificed a lot after students loans yada yada! So for people like us... that $13 a week does make a huge difference in our lives!
Oh and for those big ticket items there are tax breaks that are larger for the families that can afford them... if a family can't afford a new house at the salary they have anyway... should they really be buying one... and getting approved for loans? And for those families that can not afford the big ticket items... $13 extra a week puts that much more food in the grocery cart. So you see I am looking at the big picture... some will invest that money for the big ticket items and some will use that money to stay a float for a little bit longer... either way it is still and extra $40-$50!
Jamie... wouldn't it be nice if we could pick where our money went! I'd love to use my $13 week to pay toward the national debt... if enough folks did that, we could help curb the outrageous interest we pay on those loans!
"Jamie... wouldn't it be nice if we could pick where our money went! I'd love to use my $13 week to pay toward the national debt... if enough folks did that, we could help curb the outrageous interest we pay on those loans!" That would just give politicians a free pass to spend more! If you have extra money to donate, use it for your local community! A few gallons of paint for a community center or extra dog food for the SPCA would go a lot further! Our communities need to change in order for our country to change!
Samantha, I'm not saying $50 isn't a lot of money (that's half of my weekly grocery budget!), my point is I don't see it as a good "return on value" for a TRILLION dollar investment! Also, most folks won't see this money until sometime this summer and only those drawing a paycheck that has federal tax deductions will see ANY.
I'm concerned that the huge debt credit (and the "just print more" attitude) is going to cause hyper-inflation! That means $50 won't even get us to meeting our current needs let alone hopes of getting further!
There's a trade-off... and we're on the losing end!
And what about those who are retired? Do we get any of the stimulus payments? We still have to live and many of us aer on small fixed incomes. That $676 a year would help a lot.
oh I agree we are on the losing end no matter what! The US map will soon say Property of China! $50 a month into our economy is better then nothing though and I think in their own pompous way the politicians are somewhat doing what they can. After all you can't spin gold out straw! That extra money is not the only part of the stimulus though. There is no changing our government so I will be holding down my own fort with my extra $50 a month... selfish it may be but so were all of the actions that got our economy in bad shape to begin with. So I will be holding down my fort with my extra $50 a month! Hopefully my contributions will help but if they don't they don't and there is nothing I can do about that!
I don't know anything about it...can you tell me where to go for the info and to see if I will get anything? $13 a week would mean the world to me right now.
i have not heard about this one... MIL said we will be getting another Rebate??? so i have no idea whats going on. 13$ a week is not much, it will buy some diapers and wipes... yeih, or some pull ups........... i should watch the news some more
Millions of people receiving Social Security benefits would get a one-time payment of $250 under the agreement, along with veterans receiving pensions, and poor people receiving Supplemental Security Income payments.
Marsha -- It's a $400 tax credit on the income tax you file for 2009 if you own your own business like I do. Or, roughly $13 less taken out of your paycheck (if you get a paycheck)
There are tax breaks for low-income families with children, college students, first-time homebuyers, people who buy new automobiles, and those collecting unemployment benefits.
I'm copying and pasting from websites after I googled it, so we could get more information.
Millions of workers would soon see an extra $13 in their weekly paychecks, and thousands of small businesses operating in the red could get tax refunds under the economic recovery bill nearing completion in Congress.
(This sounds good for the small business owner, eh? )
"Are the democrats that stupid? They cry that it is the end of the world because of the economy, and all it takes is a measly $13 a week to fix it?" (comment above, but representative of many comments above)
Please. Can't we think more dimensionally than this? Are we all that incredibly sluggish-minded? Of course the stimulus isn't just $13 a week.
To begin with, the $13 a week times 300 million people is a hell of a lot of money to put back into the pockets of all Americans. And it does go to all Americans, not just the richest 1% like previously (you know, the 1% who run the big financial firms that screwed up the economy so badly and used taxpayer money to fund vacations and bonuses for its CEOs). Furthermore, the relatively small average individual amount each paycheck is purposely designed to stimulate people to spend it - after all, this is a STIMULUS package, remember. Single lump sum rebates are more likely to be put away someplace - perhaps in your mattress given the confidence we have in the management of banks these days - and saved. Saving it would make us feel like we have a little extra, but does nothing to stimulate the economy. This is a stimulus package, remember, not a rebate coupon at the local supermarket.
Secondly, this is only 4 billion dollars out of near 800 billion dollars. The rest goes to all those projects that people debated ad nauseum, remember. It goes to direct spending by the government to stimulate the economy and provide jobs. It goes to providing funds to the states so they don't lay off people and put them on underfunded unemployment programs. It goes to providing incentives for companies to invest in energy and jobs in the future. It goes to fund the financial sector so that companies - probably yours - that need lines of credit to pay their workers can continue to get lines of credit to pay their workers - perhaps even you.
This whole massive spending is supposed to be a stimulus, remember. For the country. Remember?
Carping on $13 shows a lack of being informed and a lack of dimensional thinking. Remember what that is? Perhaps it needs a stimulus.
Hmmm... I guess having 22% equal 1/3 of the bill actually Stimulus, is not rational thinking either? So why is only 1/3 of a Stimuluis bill actually for stimulating the economy? Why not 3/3 of it? I guess that would be expecting too much...
$13.00??? Can you actually get anything for 13.00?
I am so grateful for this 13.00 gift from the Great-One! I knew when we elected this genius? all my dreams would come true. But when I woke up one morning turned on the t.v. and heard that Barack got me 13.00 a week, I called my job and quit, I ran out and went to church to thank Barack for my good- "FORTUNE".
I won't even believe I'll see 13 bucks until I see it. They're just going to take it out of us some other way anyway. This whole "stimulus" is going to cost each and everyone of us more than we can possibly imagine.
I am just so thrilled wow, a big 13.00... I wont know how to act when I get mine..... We should all bow down to the president and to all of those politicians who made this happen... I would be embarrassed to offer this to the American people... It is peanuts... I wonder how big a raise these politicians will give themselves...This is how much they think of us or do they think that we are all idiots?? I bet they are sitting back, eating steaks, drinking good wine and laughing their heads off at us....
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$13 a week would actually really help us.
Anyway... any extra money goes to pay off our debt... and extra $52 extra a month is not too shabby if you ask me. Once we are debt free (other then our mortgage) we are putting our house on the market to buy a bigger one! Hopefully it sells but if not at least we live in a great neighborhood! I was planning on being debt free around September but maybe that extra $50 a month will make us debt free by August instead! Then we can save all of our money until the next spring!
Personnaly I think all the spending is a waste but if they are handing it out I'm taking it! I would think all of the budget friendly gatherers would be happy about a few extra $s!
Most of us are looking at the big picture.... read Alex in Wonderland's comment.
Also... this bill spends nearly a TRILLION dollars to generate spending? Really? It's no secret that big ticket items (housing, cars, etc) are the "quick fix" to getting the economy moving. With an additional $13 in their pockets, how many folks are going to rush out and buy those?
I'll assume that you and I are in similar boats... No debt other than mortgage, good jobs with "security", a healthy savings and investing plan, frugal-minded, living within our means.... blah, blah, blah. But let's agree that we are the exception and not the rule!
This bill is about more that just you and me. It's about lifting our economy.
Oh and for those big ticket items there are tax breaks that are larger for the families that can afford them... if a family can't afford a new house at the salary they have anyway... should they really be buying one... and getting approved for loans? And for those families that can not afford the big ticket items... $13 extra a week puts that much more food in the grocery cart. So you see I am looking at the big picture... some will invest that money for the big ticket items and some will use that money to stay a float for a little bit longer... either way it is still and extra $40-$50!
That would just give politicians a free pass to spend more! If you have extra money to donate, use it for your local community! A few gallons of paint for a community center or extra dog food for the SPCA would go a lot further! Our communities need to change in order for our country to change!
I'm concerned that the huge debt credit (and the "just print more" attitude) is going to cause hyper-inflation! That means $50 won't even get us to meeting our current needs let alone hopes of getting further!
There's a trade-off... and we're on the losing end!
God Bless!
I'm copying and pasting from websites after I googled it, so we could get more information.
(This sounds good for the small business owner, eh? )
Please. Can't we think more dimensionally than this? Are we all that incredibly sluggish-minded? Of course the stimulus isn't just $13 a week.
To begin with, the $13 a week times 300 million people is a hell of a lot of money to put back into the pockets of all Americans. And it does go to all Americans, not just the richest 1% like previously (you know, the 1% who run the big financial firms that screwed up the economy so badly and used taxpayer money to fund vacations and bonuses for its CEOs). Furthermore, the relatively small average individual amount each paycheck is purposely designed to stimulate people to spend it - after all, this is a STIMULUS package, remember. Single lump sum rebates are more likely to be put away someplace - perhaps in your mattress given the confidence we have in the management of banks these days - and saved. Saving it would make us feel like we have a little extra, but does nothing to stimulate the economy. This is a stimulus package, remember, not a rebate coupon at the local supermarket.
Secondly, this is only 4 billion dollars out of near 800 billion dollars. The rest goes to all those projects that people debated ad nauseum, remember. It goes to direct spending by the government to stimulate the economy and provide jobs. It goes to providing funds to the states so they don't lay off people and put them on underfunded unemployment programs. It goes to providing incentives for companies to invest in energy and jobs in the future. It goes to fund the financial sector so that companies - probably yours - that need lines of credit to pay their workers can continue to get lines of credit to pay their workers - perhaps even you.
This whole massive spending is supposed to be a stimulus, remember. For the country. Remember?
Carping on $13 shows a lack of being informed and a lack of dimensional thinking. Remember what that is? Perhaps it needs a stimulus.
So why is only 1/3 of a Stimuluis bill actually for stimulating the economy? Why not 3/3 of it? I guess that would be expecting too much...
$13.00??? Can you actually get anything for 13.00?
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I would be embarrassed to offer this to the American people... It is peanuts... I wonder how big a raise these politicians will give themselves...This is how much they think of us or do they think that we are all idiots?? I bet they are sitting back, eating steaks, drinking good wine and laughing their heads off at us....
Seeing as how Derric's laid off right now, it doesn't help him much.
So, we won't be spending it, cause we won't get it.
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