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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (51719)	9/7/2001 5:18:29 PM
From: BWAC	Respond to of 70976

<$300 is:> You better figure out who replaced the Feds hand in your wallet before spending that $300 all in one place. <g> I have some suggestions to make the $300 go farther: 6 fillups for my SUV (Expedition with the BIG engine): A lot of people's gas bill will go down as they become unemployed and don't have to commute to work. See saved you about $250 bi-monthly there! an average-size commission for my option trades : Being serious here, YOU ARE GETTING RIPPED. Try Ameritrade at $8 plus 1.75 per contract or Brown at $10 plus 1.50 per contract. a lot less than we spent in back-to-school shopping for our K, 2nd, and 5th-grader (and we shop at Walmart) : My wife is a K and 1st teacher. Do like a lot of the other parents do. Don't buy no supplies. Let the kind hearted teacher spend her measly salary and do it for you. less than I will spend for a year of lunches for each of them at school : Lunch Money? No!!! Apply for free lunch and breakfast like the kids wearing the $120 Nike shoes do. I mean why pay for lunch when you can buy 2 pairs of shoes and a $60 FUBU Tshirt. not enough to upgrade the tiny 17" monitor on the old PC : Can't help much there. Hold out until the Flat Panel Displays get down to a reasonable price. Now take all the savings and pay the cable bill/broadband internet/phone bill that keeps going up because the Fed and the real US monopolies have killed and prevented competition from accessing the consumer. And yes me too "I got slightly nauseated, listening to the Shrub's "I feel your pain but it's not my fault" speech" Quite disgusting as well.

To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (51719)	9/7/2001 5:47:19 PM
From: w0z	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

re: $300? Come on, be serious Let's see...$300 times 150 Million taxpayers (I'm guessing...98 Million checks sent out includes couples)...why that's almost real money ($45 Billion)! If you wanted more than that Jacob...you must be a greedy, mean-spirted, bourgeois Republican!

To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (51719)	9/7/2001 8:20:54 PM
From: Jerome	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

Jacob its about time you got things right..... 1) The Dow is in the sewer 2) The Nasdaq is going subterranian 3) Unemployment is rising 4) Recession on the near horizon 5)We have an energy crises that needs to be solved in the eyes of Bush and Cheney There is only one solution in the American tradition....Bush and Cheney need to ask for a big raise. After all its hard running this country in between vacations. Regards, Jerome

To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (51719)	9/8/2001 12:25:32 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

" I got slightly nauseated, listening to the Shrub's "I feel your pain but it's not my fault" speech." Jacob, Just saw it again this morning on the news. He is a sniveler. And I buy into Jerome's thesis that he helped tank the market at the end of the day. It really is too late to blame this on Clinton and expect the American people to buy it, even if there is some merit in it. Question for the thread If it wasnt an election year and clinton stayed on as president(with no more babes under the desk) would the economy and or markets be in the same sorry condition? My vote is that the economy would be in pretty much the same shape but the naz would be about 700 points higher with the dow at 11K. Yestedays news would have been recognized correctly as the last gasp of the bear. We should be expecting and wecoming bad employment news for the next couple of months as the economy recovers. Picture a lean and mean company with increasing sales and productivity. But with sorry National leadership, media predictions of doom may become a self fulfilling prophecy. Bush has left the entire job to Greenspan of fixing this economy with his slithery call for balancing the budget(not violating the lockbox) and the rumors of limited tax cut repeal. Fiscal policy should be the exact opposite. Simple, americans want growth and understand in bad times you sometimes even the government may have to borrow. mike