Stimulus with Stipulations

With all this talk about "stimulus packages" being proposed by the Bush administration and now the Obama administration, I've been thinking - I think if any more dollars are printed out of thin air, driving the government further into insolvency, they should have some rules about how they're spent.

I think if any U.S. citizen receives a single cent from the government as part of a "stimulus package," (I'd call it bankruptcy package but that's just me) there should be a requirement that they only spend that money on goods and services sold by U.S. companies. Yes, what a novel idea.

If this isn't a stipulation of the stimulus checks, Joe Shmo will just take his check, cash it, then drive down to Wal-Mart and by some Chinese furniture, a Japanese television and some tacos.

But wait, I bet you're asking yourself why didn't the powers that be think of this? Surely they are smart enough to have thought of this. Well, if you don't understand why the government doesn't care if you spend stimulus dollars at Wal-Mart on Chinese crap, do some research on how U.S. GDP numbers are computed. About 70% of our GDP is based on "clownsumer" spending - so, basically the government is going to finance this quarter's/this year's GDP numbers by giving people free money that they'll go blow all over town because Americans can't save money.

Cover up the problem with duct tape and paint and superglue, but by God, don't try to actually fix it!

The Definition of a Bank

Bank (n): An establishment that charges you a fee to lend your hard earned money to someone else and give you a cut of the profits.

My New Blog

Hi everyone. This is my new blog, which will contain mostly me complaining about things I encounter during my work day.

Big thanks to Brook Miles and Graham Batty for maintaining this awesome server (``todo") and not yelling at me for not giving them enough money for space on it.

Last but not least, I do not feel comfortable transitioning from my old simple site to this without retaining the content, so here it is (yes, this text was the entire content of my site's home page):

<zooka> i written a 32 bit (i think) encription program
<|^JaMeS^|> i got my CS degree in visual studio
<aclysma> does using asm count as compiling?
<wndproc> Anyone know how to CreateInstance an array?
<JJPeerles> when people refer to "C" it really C#..right.. or is there just plain old C too?
<James007> hey can SetTimer considered to be multithreading?
<adfdfgdsf> i've heard that getlasterror does some bad stuff