Suppose I go to a baseball game, with my teen-age son. I've just been to the bank, and the smallest bill I have is a $100.
I send my son up to get two hot dogs, some peanuts, and two diet sodas. I know that costs maybe $18.
He comes back with the stuff and sits down. I ask him for the change. He looks at me like I'm crazy. "That money is going to be spent on other things! That's leftover money!"
What would I do? I'd grab him by the belt, and shake the money out of his pockets! That's my money! I want my change back. I WANT MY CHANGE BACK!
That's what we should be telling President Obama about the TARP money. I WANT MY CHANGE BACK! Obama and his bunch of geniuses in Congress said they needed our money, that there would be a DISASTER unless we gave them a $1 Trillion bill. Maybe that was true, maybe it wasn't.
But we gave them the trillion dollar bill. AND THEY DIDN'T NEED IT ALL.
WE WANT OUR CHANGE BACK! It is outrageous that they are keeping the change, just so they can spend it on something else.
Tell the President: WE....WANT....OUR.....CHANGE...BACK! Apply the money back toward the deficit, don't treat it like a high school kid at a baseball game, on the equivalent of cotton candy and corn dogs.
6 comments:
few thoughts:
1) the existence of tarp isn't O's doing. it's the former R prez (who's name shall not be spoken)and his team of geniuses at treasury, lead by 3 page rescue plan paulson.
2) according to recent tax analysis, due to the increase in federal income tax credits, only slightly more that 50% of us has an federal income tax liability. so let's make it clear that "we" means 1/2 of us deserve some change.
3) while we're on the topic of trillion dollar refunds, can we still get a refund for spending a trillion (and counting) on instigating a "pre-emptive" war against a country that might destroy us with their mighty weapons of mass destruction that dodn't exist? Or has the refund period expired?
--anonyman
Lighten up, Dr M. Its not like the President specifically promised us change.
LOL, no, the president didn't, but the presidential CANDIDATE did!
the existence of tarp isn't O's doing. it's the former R prez
I can't tell from here, but didn't un-named Senators from IL, NY and DE vote for that?
only slightly more that 50% of us has an federal income tax liability. so let's make it clear that "we" means 1/2 of us deserve some change.
I'll remember to keep twice my share.
We want our Change back.
That's clever.
Change? Wait till BoA pays back their TARP money. I will be betting none of that gets back to pay down the debt. Tax payers will be kissing the whole 700 billion away. You won't even get your dog and diet soda. Just pass over the C note.
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