USA: What are you going to do with your rebate check?

[goo0h]

With news the USA gov is going to issue rebate checks to help save the economy, how are YOU going to use that money. Maybe that bran spanking new CV 35 F1.4 everyone has been drooling over?

 

[Tuolumne]

Ummm. given the amount it will be, I'd say - buy some new shoe laces.

/T

 

[rogue_designer]

invest heavily in China... in the hopes that when they purchase the United States, they'll remember me fondly.

(but seriously, probably part of a new scanner)

 

[MikeL]

I'll be using the money to help expedite a large sum of cash from the Nigerian Government to my bank account. I got this email out of the blue. Wahoo!

 

[rover]

It will probably go onto the home equity line so the wife can spend it as part of a "project" or into the boy's 429 so he can spend it on a text book some day.

 

[akptc]

Definitely buy some Leica stock

 

[mwooten]

Does it seem strange to anyone else that the USA single person amount is about the same as one of the new CV 35's?

What else do Stephen and Mr. K know?

 

[rover]

What else do Stephen and Mr. K know?

Not what, who?

 

[Al Patterson]

I'm going to put it directly into my money management account. Sadly, most folks will instead ignore their high credit card debt and interest or their total lack of any savings and go buy that new LCD TV.

<rant over>

I used the last rebate checks as partial funding of my Roth IRA.

Sadly, being single I won't GET enough for that new LCD TV.

I will get enough for a railroad charter event in NM in october, so maybe I'll go stimulate the economy of Chama, NM.

 

[cmogi10]

Spent some on the Sonnar, will spend the rest on film.

 

[Trius]

Please add the following choice:

I'll get back to you once I find out what my wife does with it.

 

[brachal]

I'm putting mine in my savings account. Just for spite.

 

[Bryce]

Nobody has mentioned donating it to the third party of your choice. Amazing!

 

[BillBingham2]

I'm kind of confused. They say the money must be spent now to save the economy but the checks come in June. Does anyone really trust President Bush on this one?

B2 (;->

 

[brachal]

I'm kind of confused. They say the money must be spent now to save the economy but the checks come in June. Does anyone really trust President Bush on this one?

B2 (;->

I live in New Orleans. I haven't trusted Bush since "Heckuva job, Brownie."

 

[Eric T]

I am going to buy euros.
Eric

 

[Al Patterson]

I'm kind of confused. They say the money must be spent now to save the economy but the checks come in June. Does anyone really trust President Bush on this one?

B2 (;->

Just to be accurate, the CONGRESS passed this law. All W has to do is sign it.

And besides, by the time the "stimulus" arrives, the recession is usually over. Although I do think the coming trouble will be more like the 1970s than the more recent downturns, so there will be plenty of bumpy road ahead AFTER the check is in the mail...

 

[Finn]

Hey if they want to write me a check to generate warm fuzzies during an election year, who am I to stop them?

 

[bcostin]

Now I know what to tell my wife when she looks skeptically at that new Canon 40D. "I had to buy it honey. For the good of the country!"

We don't really carry much debt so it'll probably go into savings. I'd prefer a tax cut, since stimulus packages like this don't generally do much, but anything that lets me keep more of my income is ok by me.

 

[splitimageview]

Yes, more tax cuts will do the trick much better. This 'stimulus' package represents about 1% of the USA GNP. It's pretty much nothing but election year pandering.