8 responses

• Jim Cowie May 05, 2008
   

  Apologies to those who live outside the USA, who will not be receiving a big fat check from the government for doing nothing at all. It's the American way!

   
• todd May 05, 2008
   

  the IRS dropped direct deposit over a week early, so these dates are already wrong, jim.

   
• jessica May 05, 2008
   

  I wonder how much of a boost these checks will give to the economy.

   
• notgneiss May 06, 2008
   

  Do you still get the check if you're hiding out in a cabin in Montana protesting the right of the Federal Government to levy illegal taxation on an unwitting population? If I'm left out, I'm going to be very pissed.

   
• Jim Cowie May 06, 2008
   

  For maximum stimulus impact, every citizen should have to go to the local county courthouse steps, where their local congressman would be standing with a big bag full of twenties (the bag would have a huge dollar sign on the side, of course). Then the congressman would count out your stimulus money into your open palm, as the gathered crowd chants "TWENTY! FORTY! SIXTY! uhh... SEV.. EIGHTY! ONE HUNNERD!"

   
• Jim Cowie May 06, 2008
   

  all this direct deposit nonsense eliminates the valuable theatrical component of getting the country into the mood for spending.

   
• Jim Cowie May 06, 2008
   

  I plan to race through the streets of manchester, new hampshire yelling WOOOOOOO with dollar bills in my fists and falling out of my coat pockets, like in the cartoons

   
• jessica May 06, 2008
   

  We need a photo of that for Babbledog.