"Starting Monday, the effects of the stimulus will begin to reach millions of households across our country," Bush said Friday in remarks on the South Lawn of the White House.
[...]"The money is going to help Americans offset the high prices we're seeing at the gas pump, the grocery store, and also give our economy a boost to help us pull out of this economic slowdown," Bush said.
Hm. The husband's gas bill last month was over $400. Our little piece of the "stimulus" pie might cover that for a bit. No new hat for me, though.
This is roiling in my brain along with John McCain's pronouncements on labor: like women need more training, not fair pay legislation, and his challenge to construction workers last year that they couldn't handle picking lettuce for $50 an hour.
I was at the legislative conference when McCain lost his cool and began this tirade. Your readers are correct, his assertion was that no American would be willing to do this work for $50.00 an hour. There are those who will argue that offering such a wage to American workers would not be adequate incentive, but clearly to an audience of construction workers this is not the case. Our president was behind him on stage when he made this asinine comment in response to the public outcry he received because of his very vocal support of comprehensive immigration reform, Our president(and myself since I worked in the field as well) was struck dumb because our members(not unlike those of the other trades represented in the crowd) work 8-12 hours each day in the heat throughout the country bending over and laying 80 lb concrete blocks, heavy stone & marble, brick, and working in hellish conditions worse than the Arizona summer.
Yes, I know it's a messy stew of only marginally related muck turning over in my head, but it just takes me to the THEY HAVE NO CLUE WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT refrain.
If either of them ever had to work for wages a day in their lives...
Anyway. Stimulus checks. Big fucking deal.
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