Translation(Lammert)of the economic mumbojumbo--We are in an economic free fall with a hard landing. Now, who wants lemonade?

With personal and public debt at galactic levels, recession, endless war squandering our wealth and draining our treasury, energy costs thru the roof, falling dollar, credit crunch, housing and construction in trouble, outsourcing, unemployment, the loss of 3 million mfg jobs under Bush, current accounts deficit and scheduled to grow and our crumbling infrastructure, the need for stimulus is nothing more than a psychological tool to dupe the people into believing that the inept, incompetent government that has created the mess we're in knows what it's doing.

I heard that the all powerful, all knowing United States government is going to borrow three hundred dollars somewhere and send it to me. I know just what I'm gonna do. First I'm gonna buy a gun. Then .......

The Democrats support the rebate to help the economy and the common citizen. Meaning they see more money in the citizens hands as a good thing.

Then why do they want to raise taxes on everyone. You moonbats do understand when Bushes tax break expire because the Democrats do not support it the working guys current tax rate will increase by 50% from 10% to 15% bracket.

So moonbats please explain how today having more money in the working guys hands is good for the economy and in the near future taking money form the working guy is good for the economy?

If the want to fix the economy, why don't they install $200 Billion worth of solar panels on all our roofs and force the utilities to buy back 100% of our power at the "peak" retail rate for the next 20 years?

We all start getting checks (so we spend more over 20 years), greenhouse gases are enormously reduced, tens of thousands of construction and factory workers get their jobs back, and the utilities who have been bleeding us dry disgorge a teensy percentage of their ill-gotten gains, instead of turning the "renewable energy" boom into an all new opportunity for monopoly, manipulation, wilderness death and eminent domain.

why can't we ever get our tax dollars to be invested in US when they are constantly throwing our money at utilities who rip us off, bulldoze our beautiful open spaces, and set our neighborhoods on fire with their sloppy transmission lines?

Wowza.

Ya mean giving debt-ridden, recession-fearing, wage-droppin plebes a few bucks to buy foreign goods isn't priming the US economy?

Whodathunkit.

Bribing people with their own money ...

This will create another trillion in the system with debt based fractional banking allowing more and more bailout money for the banks.

Doubts? I have no doubt that it will accomplish nothing.

If you live in a high cost metro area, chances are you make too much money too qualify for the tax rebate. You'd be hard pressed to afford even a small condo in San Francisco with a salary of $90,000 per year. But at least it should give you an idea of who the folks in Washington consider rich. Be prepared for a big hike in your income taxes in 2009 and later, even if the House leadership says any tax increase would "only apply to the rich". Think about what your take home pay will look like in 2009 before you vote in November, especially if you make too much money to qualify for government subsidies. If you are a retiree who depends on investment income to pay most of your bills, find out where your preferred candidate stands on the taxing of dividends. Be careful about what you wish for; you may not like the results.

Let's see...Exxon/Mobile just announced 40 billion dollar PROFIT last year. Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo! for $44 billion. That's just over half what Shrub wants to lend us from next year. As Lewis Black says in his routine from a few years ago..."if we all got together and spent our $600 at the exact same moment it might put a blip on the radar...otherwise, fuggedaboudit."
Shrub came in on a recession which he blamed on Clinton when in actuality he and numb nuts Cheney spent the last couple of months of Clinton's tenure talking down the economy to justify his tax give away to his, appropriately named, "base". Who is he blaming this one on? The slim majority the Democrats have in Congress, of course.
It's going to be a dark ride folks. We now get to pay for the disaster Bushco has created. At the same time we get the pleasure of hearing the nimrods in dumfukistan laying the blame everywhere but at their own doorstep.

In plain english the $600.00/$1200.00 "rebate" is insignificant in an economy as large as ours. Even if it had some impact the results would not be seen for many quarters - so this is not an "instant" fix. It's a BINKEY - the same kind your mother gave you when you cried for the bottle. It feels good, but contains NO nurishment. Add to this the "rumor" that the so-called rebate is a shrink of your 2008 income tax (filed by 4/15/09)refund. More smoke and mirrors??

man are these so called Economic Experts slow. Just about everyone in America new this.. YOu cant help the economy by giving the same corporations who drove us into this tail spin a reward. They will just continue on doing what they did to get us here.

Since pre 1929, all our economic downfalls were caused by the US style Capitalist. Greed driven narcissism , its all mine and I deserve it all, Capitalistic Aholes.
You stop them, you can stop much of the problems.
No , capitalism isnt a bad thing, its just that US style capitalism of greed, supreme power over even our government, and exclusion of Americans is.

The $3 trillion Bush's proposes spending in 2009 would be the first time that milestone has been reached. Bush also presided over the first budget to hit $2 trillion, in 2002. It took the government nearly 200 years to reach the first $1 trillion budget, which occurred in 1987 during the Reagan administration.

Within the larger framework of Macroeconomic Saturation, Decay Model G is a perfect fractal fit. The CRB reached an intraday high on 1 February 2008 before falling. It is likely the contracting global money supply has pushed the CRB to its saturation high. From its low on 16 August 2007, gold, the CRB's proxy and an anacronism for wealth in a nuclear world, completed a 11/28/22/18 day Lammert fractal progression with a 9 day base in the final 18 days. From this base a 9/21/21 day fractal was completed with day 21 of the third fractal resting midposition in a 5 day saturation cup from days 19-23. On 1 February gold potentially completed a 17/34/34 month growth fractal from its 20 year lows in 2000. For the Wilshire 1 February completed a 20/50/49 day averaged x/2.5x/2.5x deteriorating growth fractal dating from 16 August 2007. Can Federal Reserve monetary policy and congressional fiscal/tax/late mortgage policy alter Macroeconomic fractal progression? Expect a nonlinear devolution break on 4 February 2008