Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Stimulating the economy with a stimulus check



Hopefully, most of you have received your stimulus check. How did you spend your windfall? Did you stimulate the economy and give it to Walmart? Maybe you paid some bills? I am just curious. If I was a betting man, I would gamble that most of you put it back into your gas tank.

Let’s do some simple math; the average couple without children would have received $600. At $4 per gallon of regular unleaded, you could have splurged and treated yourself to 140 gallons of gas. 

Did anyone get a chance to spend any of it on their significant other?

Did you get your special guy a football jersey of his favorite player?

How about a new pair of earrings or a new nightgown for your special lady?

I was able to get my wife some flowers and her favorite meal from a local Chinese restaurant.  So being the patriot I am, I stimulated the economy while treating my wife to a good meal and some flowers. Hey, it’s not much, but I did my part. Did you? 

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