Barack Obama stimulus gives us middle class $13.00 a week...Whoopi

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Real Estate Appraiser with Lanier Appraisal Service CR004373

$13.00 a week, WOW now that is going to stop this recession dead in its tracks! Give me a break and John Stossel would say! Within that 1110 page package which no one has read in its entirety before signing including Barack Obama, we have that middle class tax cut that is going to CHANGE the economy, get us back up on our feet, move us in the right direction! I just spent $13.00 in electricity, Internet connection and my coffee that I am drinking right now putting this blog together! 

"The most highly touted tax cut in the original proposal now translates into $7.70 a week for middle-class workers," said Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky".  Full story here:  http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D96A51G80&show_article=1

 I don't know about you, but I think we need to get back to basics and start all over again. This country has spun off track and throwing good money (meaning ours) after bad makes no sense to me.

If Obama wants to really do something good for this country, he should refuse to sign this bill and advise that everyone must read every page including himself, it should be posted on the internet for all of us to read and comment on just like he promised in his campaign and then and only then make an informed voting decision.....Until we truly have this transparency this bill is being passed with blinders on and we are all going to suffer the consequences.

Sure we need to put people back to work ASAP, we need to stop the blood flowing on foreclosures, but we need to do it RIGHT this time, not just FAST!

So Obama be smart, tell people to go back to the drawing board and develop a bill that will really work and not put us into a depression.

Thanks for letting me RANT!

Mary Thompson

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Comments (7)

Susan Haughton
Long and Foster REALTORS (703) 470-4545 - Alexandria, VA
Susan & Mindy Team...Honesty. Integrity. Results.

Poor, poor, misguided Mary (j/k)...you honestly thought this was about the taxpayers, the middle class, the folks who are the backbone of this great country?  You expected something different?  You didn't know it was political payback time? 

It's a free pound of coffee each week...hoo rah!  Now that's something to celebrate.  Oh, wait, I'm a 1099 self employed person.  And I am SURE, without seeing ANY details, we do not qualify for any tax cuts, anyway, because according to this administration, we are now RICH!  We ascended from the middle class a few thousand dollars ago.

I totally agree with your sentence about making the bill available, but I disagree with the basic premise BO wants to do something good for this country...I have yet to see any evidence of that.  Not saying it won't happen, but I don't see any sign of it yet.  Thanks for a great post! 

Feb 14, 2009 01:39 AM
Susan Haughton
Long and Foster REALTORS (703) 470-4545 - Alexandria, VA
Susan & Mindy Team...Honesty. Integrity. Results.

p,s.  We lived in Canton, GA a few years ago...know your area well...very pretty and lots of great folks.

Feb 14, 2009 01:39 AM
John Walters
Frank Rubi Real Estate - Slidell, LA
Licensed in Louisiana

Mary all they had to do was suspend the FICA taxes for the rest of the year.  We would have billions more to spend.  But no they want control of your money, period.

Feb 14, 2009 02:07 AM
Mary Thompson
Lanier Appraisal Service - Flowery Branch, GA
Lake Lanier Appraiser in North Georgia

Susan: I just Love your acronym for our illustrious president. LOL. Did I ever say BO wanted to do something good for our country? NO! I had doubts along time ago, these details just point this fact out so very clearly....

He has pretty much gone back on everything he promised and his entire cabinet is a bunch of tax cheats and evaders...what a riot!

I am also a 1099'er but I wish I was making $250,000 plus not to qualify! However I am thinking that self employed people will get the BRUNT of this bill....and we are the ones who keep the economy going, shut all of us self employed entrepreneurs downs and we take a bunch of people with us.

Life goes on................

Susan: There are alot of great folks down here, I am a Chicago transplant, yes the very city where our President is from.....and it is much nicer down here in the Good Ol South

 

 

Feb 14, 2009 02:35 AM
William Feela
WHISPERING PINES REALTY - North Branch, MN
Realtor, Whispering Pines Realty 651-674-5999 No.

I said it becore and will say it again.  This Bill is nothing but spending.  It does little to boost the economy.  Like you said...$13!?  They are out of their minds.  The Bush stimulus checks did more than this piddly amount!

Feb 14, 2009 03:03 AM
Tammy Lankford,
Lane Realty Eatonton, GA Lake Sinclair, Milledgeville, 706-485-9668 - Eatonton, GA
Broker GA Lake Sinclair/Eatonton/Milledgeville

Susending FICA taxes is not the answer.  Social Security and Medicare funds should have NEVER crossed over the budget lines in the first place (directed at John's comment)

And Mary how refreshing it would be if just someone in washington took the time to read that freaking bill before it's signed, but I really don't they that happening.  Looks like the "change" we are getting is new signatures on more of the same.  I'm SO disappointed.

 

Feb 14, 2009 11:56 PM
Evelyn Johnston
Friends & Neighbors Real Estate - Elkhart, IN
The People You Know, Like and Trust!

Have you forwarded your post to the White House yet?  Why don't you?

Feb 16, 2009 02:08 AM

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