Tag Archives: economy

your stimulus dollars hard at work

Posted on 11. Feb, 2009 by Jill in current events

Here’s another brilliant way the government plans to ward off a financial meltdown: electric golf carts. Apparently the stimulus package will contain somewhere from $300,000,000 to $600,000,000 of taxpayer dollars with which the federal government plans to purchase electric vehicles, including these precious little golf-cart-looking things. Thank goodness! Our economy is saved!

the sky is falling (for real this time)

Posted on 06. Feb, 2009 by Jill in current events

Once again, I’m baffled. A few months ago, we were told by a breathless Hank Paulson that we were perhaps hours away from a complete financial meltdown, the likes of which we’ve never seen. Remember? They said credit had frozen and it was an impending capital-D-Disaster. And the only way to avert Disaster was for [...]