Buying friends

[pasithea]

Oh now this is just fucking sad. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18956496&ft=1&f=1001

It's like Bush is admitting he's a complete failure. He's trying to buy friends.

Or is he trying to bribe voters for November because otherwise his party doesn't have a snowball's chance in Hell.

OOOOH and an extra 300 per child for breeders. Isn't that nice. Of course, it's a mere $152,000,000,000 in taxes, but WHO CARES! With interest, he's only going to steal $1,000 per person to give you $600 and most of that will be carried by people like me who'll pay closer to $2,000. But if you're working part time at Wal-Mart with no healthcare and you have a half dozen screaming larvae, you'll probably only end up paying back $500 of it or so. WHAT A GREAT GUY.

Oh. An also, here's a person message from the president:

BTW, poor people and fags. FUCK YOU. If you earn less than $3000/yr or you're a 'single' person who make more than 75K/year, you get dick. I make more than 75K/year but my partner made nothing last year. We've been together for 10 years but fuck that. We'll get dick. THANK YOU MISTER PRESIDENT.

So in addition to paying a couple thousand or so in extra taxes for the privilege of letting Bush try to buy friends, he won't even try to bribe me. Isn't that extra special.

Most of my neighbors who're good little breeders will be getting about $3,000 per family. I predict half of them will use it to buy big screen TVs so they can scream even louder at football games. (While I'm on the subject of heterosexuals, did I mention the jackass sitting in his living room last Sunday blowing an airhorn for the fucking super bowl?)

Comments

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, raising the damn minimum wage would do a LOT more to 'stimulate the economy'.

[captpackrat.livejournal.com]

Or a WPA-like program. $150 billion could employ 3-5 million people to repair bridges, build highways, and upgrade infrastructure. That would not only stimulate the economy, but we'd actually get something useful out of it.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Or.. Crazy concept. Put 152B into public healthcare. People who aren't sick are more capable of working and therefor more capable of doing work which gives them money to buy things which creates more jobs because they're buying things.

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

They tried logic like that when they were trying to insure all the poor people in California. You know, that it's cheaper to have everybody get regular checkups than it is to let things go until people have to make expensive emergency room visits they can't pay for. It was shot down, of course. Can't reward people for being poor.