14 Responses to “Get Your Share of the Stimulus”

1. #1 |  Rob Robertson |  February 15th, 2009 at 7:44 pm

   When I was five I prayed to God, and I sent a letter to Santa, and wished on every star, all to no avail; now I’m going to picket the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston until I get a pony, dammit. Now!

2. #2 |  Rusty Shackleford |  February 15th, 2009 at 7:59 pm

   $825,000

   You know those guitars that are like, double guitars

   Atlanta Falcons

   Dianne Feinstein

   /can’t wait

3. #3 |  Judas Peckerwood |  February 15th, 2009 at 8:33 pm

   Sweet! Is my check in the mail yet?

4. #4 |  Hugh Jass |  February 15th, 2009 at 9:20 pm

   $10,000,000

   Do a study of the stimulus bill

   Paul McCartney

   Nancy Pelosi

   Laughed my ass off when I read it.

5. #5 |  bobzbob |  February 15th, 2009 at 9:37 pm

   Funny, but the joke is inserted in the bill just a few paragraphs above the real item that provides money that I can compete for, and if I win I will hire employees and start writing sub-contracts (with american firms) within 30 days AND in the end provide state-of -art technology that will further the development of new lifesaving drugs and materials.

   Its all fun to make jokes about things you don’t have to understand when you live in your parents basement, but here in the real world life is a different story. This the kind of “insightful” reasoning that has come to pass for real analysis when it comes to “reason” magazine.

6. #6 |  NutellaonToast |  February 15th, 2009 at 10:13 pm

   But Bob, congress is spending money and that’s ALWAYS bad! Don’t you realize that the best way to get over the worst economic downturn ever is to just do nothing?!?!?! God, you’re so silly sometimes.

7. #7 |  Chris Berez |  February 15th, 2009 at 11:33 pm

   Hurray! $2,000 for DVDs, weed, strippers and porn. And free Red Sox tickets for life. Oh, how I love you, Reason.

   Real life… not so much.

8. #8 |  Boyd Durkin |  February 15th, 2009 at 11:50 pm

   Silly me, Nutella! ALL goverment spending is stimulus! Wahoo! We am all gonna be rich if we spend enuff. Next up: eat more to lose weight.

9. #9 |  Boyd Durkin |  February 16th, 2009 at 12:03 am

   350 large for pimpin’.

   Who out of Congress? That my bidness.

10. #10 |  Andrew Williams |  February 16th, 2009 at 1:57 am

    :ROFL:

11. #11 |  Michael |  February 16th, 2009 at 1:58 am

    I am anxiously awaiting the help, so I can become a tax paying member of society again! I am tired of being unemployed! Who says a college education is really worth anything! I am living proof it is not!

12. #12 |  Eric |  February 16th, 2009 at 12:39 pm

    I am intrigued that from the look of the comments above, most people asked for only a small slice ($825,000, $10,000,000, $2,000, “350 large”). I asked for $300,000.

    Of course it is just silliness, but I wonder what the different average asks would have been from readers at other sites.

13. #13 |  Kristen |  February 17th, 2009 at 2:51 pm

    Bobz & Nutella need senses of humor. Perhaps they shoudl apply for a stimulus check?

    Me:

    $350,000,000,000
    several hundred acres in Vermont to study some kind of wildlife or something
    Minnesota Vikings
    James P. Moran

14. #14 |  markm |  February 20th, 2009 at 6:41 pm

    I guess I’m a piker, I only asked for 100 billion for my private space program.

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