On Mar 10, 2009, at 11:23 PM, George Rogato wrote: > I heard from my far right wing buddy, that the plan is to get to $15 > Trillion by the time they are all done. > > Seriously. > > For the record, I am not sure if anyone else has noticed, but I have > yet > to actually meet anyone, anyone from the far left to the far right, > and > we have plenty of both around here, that think any of this bail out is > worth while.
Yeah, I've heard similar comments from folks on both ends of the spectrum. There's lots of skepticism. Me, I don't bother having an opinion because, as much as I keep up on this stuff...well, I don't know dinky-do. I have *no* idea why I'm responding to this thread. Normally I like to pretend I'm smart enough to stay out of such discussions ;-). Must be all that economic stress is addling my brain! Chuck > I hear, give Americans a free tax year and let us stimulate that > way. I > hear let them fail, it's natural for the weak to fail, and it;s there > own fault. > But I just have not heard one person say, I agree what a great idea. > And > I come across a lot of people. > > > I like the idea money will be spent on broadband, but not citigroup, > myself. > > George > > > Chuck Bartosch wrote: >> LOL, dude, some pretty trivial math would tell you that's clearly not >> even in the ballpark! >> >> Maybe if the stimulus were $7.4 trillion, not $740 billion. But, hey, >> what's a factor of 10 or so between friends, eh? >> >> ;-) >> >> Chuck >> >> On Mar 10, 2009, at 10:32 PM, Brad Belton wrote: >> >>> Is it true that the amount of money spent in "stimulus" plans would >>> be equal >>> to or less than the government writing every household in America a >>> $70k or >>> $80k check? >>> >>> Something tells me that would have been better use of taxpayer funds >>> to >>> "stimulate" the economy rather than what has and is been done so >>> far... >>> >>> Brad >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] >>> On >>> Behalf Of Travis Johnson >>> Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 7:34 PM >>> To: WISPA General List >>> Subject: Re: [WISPA] schools >>> >>> Too bad this isn't really helping much. I am heading to a Public >>> Hearing >>> right now for our school district. Even with the stimulus money, >>> they >>> are still talking about getting rid of 20-30 teachers and counselors >>> next school year. And the year after that there may be that many >>> more. >>> That's a 10-15% reduction in our school district. >>> >>> So now it's looking like we did a $700 Billion dollar "loan", and we >>> are >>> STILL going to have a ton more layoffs and businesses going out of >>> business. :( >>> >>> Travis >>> Microserv >>> >>> RickG wrote: >>>> Where is this headed? >>>> http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/leg/recovery/factsheet/overview.html >>>> Is this an income stream possibility for a WISP? >>>> -RickG >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> ---- >>>> WISPA Wants You! 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