A five hundred dollar tax credit for individuals or one thousand dollars for couples. Let’s see, that comes out to be about nine dollars a week for an individual or nineteen dollars a week for couples. Be still my heart.

It’s funny but I just cannot get the picture out of my mind of all the people who went down to the Arch grounds the day “President Elect” Barack Obama came to town and promised them he was going to take them to the promised land. That all their troubles and worries were going to be over and they would now be able to sleep at night.

I would have sworn he was riding a cloud as if it were Ascension Thursday and the tongues of the Holy Ghost were above the heads of all in attendance. We are saved.

There’s your stimulus package. There are no stimulus checks being sent to people this year, so stop looking for the mailman. Big business, Wall Street, and the Auto makers got it all. Tax breaks are fine for people if you have a job. But what can you do with an extra nine dollars a week? Does this mean they will tax people less on unemployment benefits? I doubt it. Does it mean you will get more in food stamp assistance. No. If you get unemployment benefits, it reduces your food stamp allotment.
This is the guy people thought were going to save the country. They voted for him and before he is even sworn in, he has proven it was a words. Now you have to live with your decision. An eight hundred billion dollar stimulus package sounds good, but someday, someone is going to have to pay for and repay all of this.

Jim Kozlowski
St. Louis