Three news events just this week in our town:

- A local brick plant is laying off a majority of its employees due to lack of business because of the crappy economy.

- A local restaurant is closing its doors after 40 years, in part due to high gas prices.

- Our local electricity provider is petitioning the state for permission to raise electricity rates by 20%, mostly due to high prices for coal, which has almost doubled in a year to now over $100 per ton. In an effort to make customers feel good, they point out that their rates are still lower (even after the rate hike) than other electricity providers in the area. Part of the blame goes to “high demand in China.” OK, so we are told that we are sitting on more coal reserves in the U.S. than oil reserves worldwide and that coal is the fuel of the future. And they tell us that drilling oil in the ANWR will lower oil/gas prices in America? Bulls*it. If that is the case, then the coal companies would be selling coal to the electric companies at a lower price than what the coal prices are on the world market. Right? But this is not the case.

My neighbor called me 2 week’s ago, he is in the same situation I am, poor but getting by alright.He didn’t know how to get his check and I told him he would have to file…He ran out and got the form’s and filed that day…I told him it was adding to the debt and I wasent going to go for it…He’s planning a trip back east and want’s the money for gas….I told him I’m not going anywhere and will do just fine with out the cash….

It’s none of my business or major concern what other’s do with this check, most people need far more than the amount being sent….Personely I think our country would of been better served with rebuilding our infrastructure, school’s, housing the homeless, employment benefit extensions and creating job’s but that’s just me….I’m not buying this crap and I have a choice to not comply to filling out a dummy return for money I can get along with out and not add to our massive debt…My shredder is gonna love chewing up this paper work and my bank account will stay the same…….Blessings

What George W. Bush meant was:
“Now,… close your eyes and click your heals and say three times…
‘There’s no place like home…’”

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Why not wait for him to spend his money?

Bush can take the bail out money and send that money (which is ours as well) and give it to us instead of the bail out.
Come on Bush, its our money and you want us to have it. \

Then let “your” family bail out the Bear…………….!

The rebates only add to the debt and interest and the overall Federal budget gets squeezed more and more….thanks to the so-called “MBA President.” But then that’s what they ultimately want…to squeeze govt. until it’d down to the size that it can be “drowned in a bathtub” (Grover Norquist).

Interest payments: http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/ir/ir_expense.htm

It’s up to almost $200 BILLION in the first 5 months of 2008.

STOP the war idiots – that will help boost the economy.
Our focus would get back to creating jobs AT HOME and offering career opportunities for the albe and willing.

As things are right now, OUR money in the federal government is being stolen every day by war profiteers.

That’s the welfare that is bringing down our economy. CORPORATE WELFARE.

Corporations get tax breaks and government contracts without having to try whey WE THE PEOPLE get what?

Oh yeah $600 max.

FREAKING unbelievable!

These bastard will get their Karma.

Even if you don’t loose it in next year’s taxes, the govt has to make up that money somewhere. So do you pay it now, or do you pay down the national debt later ?

Of course, what is $600 in comparison to the trillions for the invasion and occupation of Iraq ?

He probably went to an academically inferior school. Perhaps he didn’t go to a real school at all, but got his diploma in the mail. McWars Says:
March 27th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
woodguy Says:
March 27th, 2008 at 6:20 pm

Your accountant is dead wrong. Bet he went to college in the South, huh? Or is he a correspondence school grad?

This comment doesn’t make any sense.

Your accountant is dead wrong. Bet he went to college in the South, huh? Or is he a correspondence school grad?

This comment doesn’t make any sense.

If a Democratic administration suggested a rebate the MSM would be screaming; “Redistribution of wealth blah, blah, socialism, blah, communism”.

And the Republicriminals would shut down the government rather than let it happen.

I believe if anything they are obtuse. Or is that the person who posted the comment? I’m so confused.

Obama won’t have to hand out any money. We’ll all make plenty in a Democratic economy, just as we did in the last Democratic Administration. Maybe Shrub and McShrub can both take some basic economics courses while Obama cleans up the mess that Shrub has made of the booming economy that he inherited.

This isn’t free money…it’s basically a loan

I just got off the phone with my accountant and asked him if this rebate check will count against next years taxes, and was advised it would not. You will never file this on any return.

Your accountant is dead wrong. Bet he went to college in the South, huh? Or is he a correspondence school grad?

Quit Whining! In other country’s you would’ve had to waited almost a year to get the treatment. Damn Leach!!

Should have been posted preceding #76