Toon: Americans Go Splurge-Crazy With Their Stimulus Checks!
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Of course, I'm lactose intolerant and I don't own a car--so I'm buying an extra quart of rice milk!
But seriously--these stimulus checks are such a joke, especially the idea that we should spend them on crap we don't need, like fancy appliances or big-screen TVs. Considering rising food and gas prices and the housing crisis and rising unemployment and health care costs and stagnant wages, the amount of debts so many Americans are in, that one-time check is going to evaporate real fast.
A one-time stimulus check worth $600-$1,200 isn't going to do much for folks facing foreclosure--it probably won't cover even one missed mortgage payment. Though with the average American family in something like $9,000 worth of credit card debt, it could be a nice start towards becoming debt-free.
I'm planning to give some as-yet-undetermined portion of mine to a deserving charity (probably one helping with the global food crisis, like Oxfam America). The rest will go to savings or the hungry open maw that is the cost of attending cartooning conventions.
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Money honorably spent, Mikhaela.
I was thinking recently about the right-wingers who are always insisting that what this country really needs is to go back on the Gold Standard, because what we have now is a currency that's not backed by anything but government decree. And in a way, they're right; not about the Gold Standard bullshit, but our economy really has become illusory, not backed by anything material. The only way that we can drive our economy any more is to buy the piles and piles of useless shit that super-rich corporations build overseas and then ship back here. Most of us build our lives not on funds that are even as substantial as the $600 tax refund, but on credit. That's what's gonna bite us in the ass.
What's truly pathetic is that this "tax rebate" is just more theft from future generations. Funny, I thought the "Christians" had a Commandment against this: "Thou Shalt Not Steal."
Maybe this is really why the GOP is anti-abortion, it reduces the number of feti from which it can steal.
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