This is for Knabe

[common sense]

My current favorite Chuck Lorre quote of the week:  #248
I believe that Newton's first law of motion is the reason we will emerge from our current economic woes. That law states that an object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. How does that relate to the financial #$%*storm we're now cowering under? Allow me to explain. There are slightly less than seven billion people on this planet. Assuming that roughly half that number are either too young, too old, too lazy, or too loaded to work, that still leaves almost three and a half billion people getting up in the morning to chase the almighty dollar, the transcendent rupee, the zen yen,the dear ol' euro, the what's goin' on yuan, the... well, you get the idea. Now, call me crazy (and many have called me far worse), but I happen to think that three and a half billion motivated people is one big damn object in motion. And the only thing acting against that object is the friction caused by a small bunch of greedy, dumbass, screw-the-pooch, Ivy League pot stickers (the unbalanced force). I therefore assert that the unbalanced force (you know who you are, shame on you), will eventually be overwhelmed by the object in motion (three and a half billion people with pluck, aka pluckers), thus allowing the object in motion to continue its relentless journey forward, thriving and conniving until it is once again slowed down by other unbalanced forces, or a very large meteorite. Or a plague. Or fundamentalists with nukes. Or atmosphere-eating nanobots. Or a super volcano. Or Skynet. Or Cylons.

However#249 could easily be a close second!

DISCLAIMER:  This is meant entirely with a sense of humor! 

 

[knabe]

 

[loveRedcows]

Hey Julie, I'm with you...  I believe if the stimulus $$$ had been distributed to every TAX PAYING U.S. citizen we could have really stimulated the economy by going out & spending our own money thereby creating demand for products which would have created jobs to produce the products, etc., etc.

 

[knabe]

Hey Julie, I'm with you...  I believe if the stimulus $$$ had been distributed to every TAX PAYING U.S. citizen we could have really stimulated the economy by going out & spending our own money thereby creating demand for products which would have created jobs to produce the products, etc., etc.

i'm thinking you capitalized TAX PAYING to emphasize those that pay net federal income tax, as opposed to those who don't.  my thinking is that voting should follow a similar concept, similar to how it all started.  in other words, you can CHOOSE to not pay federal income tax, but you don't get to vote if you don't, especially for items that show up on property tax.

 

[GoWyo]

Hey Julie, I'm with you...  I believe if the stimulus $$$ had been distributed to every TAX PAYING U.S. citizen we could have really stimulated the economy by going out & spending our own money thereby creating demand for products which would have created jobs to produce the products, etc., etc.

Or people could have taken the money and paid down debt, which would have put money into the banking system and relieved bankruptcies, foreclosures, etc and made taxpayers who actually paid taxes, wealthier to stimulate the economy with debt free assets and cash to spend.

 

[Doc]

Well the county I live in is doing their part to stimulate or stifle (Idon't know which) the economy. I got my property tax notices today for the house & the land & it went thru the roof. I geuss I'm going to go discuss it with them.