Stimulus package explained

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Sometime this year, taxpayers will receive an Economic Stimulus Payment. This is a very exciting new program that I will explain using the Q and 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. No, they are borrowing it from China. Your children are expected to repay the Chinese.

Q. What is the purpose of this payment?
A. The plan is that you will 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 US economy by spending your stimulus check wisely:

- If you spend that money at Wal-Mart, all the money will go to China
- If you spend it on gasoline it will go to Hugo Chavez, the Arabs and Al Queda.
- If you purchase a computer it will go to Taiwan.
- If you purchase fruit and vegetables it will go to Mexico , Honduras , Chile , and Guatemala.
- If you buy a car it will go to Japan and Korea.
- If you purchase prescription drugs it will go to India.
- If you purchase heroin it will go to the Taliban in Afghanistan.
- If you give it to a charitable cause, it will go to Nigeria.

And none of it will help the American/Canadian economy.

We need to keep that money here in America . You can keep the money in America by spending it at yard sales, going to a baseball game, beer (domestic ONLY), or tattoos, since those are the only businesses still in the U.S.

Any questions?

Congress is full of a bunch of idiots

Video here.

Once again, Jon Stewart is the voice of reason among the cacophony of idiots. Why oh why do we care how high a trillion dollars worth of $100 bills stack? Or how many times those bills would circle the earth if taped end to end?

Am I the only one who thought about how expensive it was just to create the posters? (Cost of printing two posters: $100 easily, if not more. Time to research and design poster, or pay an intern to research and design a poster (at conservative estimates of $25 an hour, for three hours): $75.

Assuming a paper bill is 0.0043in thick:

$1x10^12 x (0.0043in / $100) x (1ft/12in) x (1 mi/ 5280ft) = 679mi high. Yup, that's right.

Oh! I know, let's use those trillion dollars worth of hundred dollar bills to build us a paper house! Mmmm, I call the master bedroom.