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Lyric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-09-09 01:07 PM
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11. Not likely. Recall that these were the Congresspeople
who caved in to Repuke outrage about the poorest of the poor getting $600 like everyone else last time. They cut it in half, and the most needy people in the country got the least amount of money. That was soooo stupid; poor people are the best bet for "stimulating" the economy, because they spend their money. They don't have savings, they don't have retirement accounts to contribute to, and most of them don't even have credit cards to pay down because they don't qualify for credit. They would have spent it on groceries and household necessities, thus stimulating the economy far more than some middle-class family who paid on credit cards and socked the rest away in savings. *sigh*

The way this country treats the poor is a disgrace; we have lost our nobility and replaced it with greed and selfishness. :(
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