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Sometime this year, we taxpayers will receive another stimulus payment.  Let’s examine:

Q. What is a stimulus payment?

A. It is money that the government will send to taxpayers and to people who don’t pay taxes at all.

Q. Where will the government get this money?

A. From taxpayers.

Q. So the government is giving me back my own money?

A. Only a smidgen of it.

Q. What is the purpose of this payment?

A. The plan is for you to use the money to purchase a high-definition TV set, thus stimulating the economy.

Q. But isn’t that stimulating the economy of China?

A. Shut up.

Consider this:

* If you spend the stimulus money at Wal-Mart, the money will go to China or Sri Lanka.

* If you spend it on gasoline, your money will go to various Arab nations.

* If you purchase a computer, it will go to India, Taiwan or China.

* If you purchase fruit and vegetables, it will go to Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala.

* If you buy an efficient car, it will go to Japan or Korea.

* If you purchase useless stuff, it will go to Taiwan.

* If you pay off your credit cards or buy stock, it will go to management bonuses and they will hide it offshore.

Instead, keep the money in the USA by:

1) spending it at yard sales, 2) buying tickets to sporting events, 3) renting a hooker, 4) beer, or, 5) tattoos

These are the only American businesses still operating in America.

Conclusion: Go to a basketball game with a tattooed hooker you met at a yard sale and drink beer all day.