What logic is Bush* using to explain giving average Americans $800?

[Toots]

Is he suggesting that if you give to lower class it will help the economy? I thought that was completely counter to Supply Side Economics. He should be demanding we give Exxon millions instead. Let those millions trickle down to us peons. Is he somehow suggesting that if he gives the peons money it will trickle up? :shrug: I am sooo confused...Everyone knows Demand Side economics can not work...At least that is what Republicans have been saying for decades now...It was only a fluke and some left over results of Reagan that when Clinton applied Demand Side Economics in the nineties America experienced the greatest economic expansion in history..Why o why is Bush* sending us such mixed signals????

[fasttense]

1. Buying votes. n/t

[Johonny]

5. yip

It "worked" in 2000. He's a one trick pony, unfortunately his only trick is crapping on the rug.

[napi21]

2. I don't begruge giving this $$ to someone who it will really help,

but for everyone else...don't forget-you'll hae to pay income tax on it next year! Remember that last time we all got a check in the mail!

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. I don't want it, whether I have too pay it back next year and especially if future generations have

too pay it back. bu$hco should keep their crumbs and come with a viable plan, not this shell game.

[annabanana]

9. It's worse than that.. We have to DEDUCT that whole rebate from

our refund when we do the taxes for '08.. He's giving us NOTHING... just an advance on a future refund....

smoke & mirrors, folks, smoke & mirrors...

[KansDem]

3. Bribe...

He's saying, "If I give you money, maybe you'll like me again!"


See? I'm holding an 'Murican flag! Don't you like me now?
And I'll give you $800! Don't you like me more? Please...?!

Pathetic wretch...

[L. Coyote]

6. STOP the Roman rabble from rumbling. It's an election year, after all!

Bush Junta Economics 101: Give them cake today, charge it to the grandkids! Let someone else worry about it after the election.

[Turbineguy]

7. What it boils down to

is do we want an imperfect temporary solution allowing longer term solutions to be put in place or stay on the road to a worldwide financial meltdown resulting in vast dislocations, our pensions (what there is) wiped out, riots etc. The US population is heavily armed. And no matter who blames who for what, once the shooting starts it will get very bad.

[spanone]

8. he's looking for a battle with congress....congress bad, bu$h* wants to give you money

[Toots]

10. Except Congress will want to up the ante

Democrats will jump on this with glee. Why stop at $800? Let's give each tax payer $2000. and watch Bush* veto a bill that would send money to Americans...

[sandnsea]

14. There were stimulus proposals BEFORE Bush's

He is the one who is pretending to up the ante. Obama's proposal rebates FICA and adds to SS and unemployment, so that everybody gets help. Bush's is only for those who earned enough to pay taxes in the first place, so only the upper income people will get any help.

[ladjf]

11. Attempted bribe.

[Eurobabe]

12. Logic and Bush never belong in the same sentence together

You should know better.

:rofl:

[sandnsea]

13. You have to pay taxes to get them back

This is NOT money for the lower class. This is money to the upper 25%, just like the last tax credits were.