I got my Economic Stimulus Payment Notice in the mail the other days. It says I should get $300-600 from the IRS this May because I make over $3,000. Wow, that’s all you need to make?
First off, I am totally against the this “stimulus”. The people that are making $3,000 probably aren’t saving their money. They are spending it. Yeah, I know that’s the point of this thing, for Americans to go out and shop.
However, it’s not the lower class people that need to go out and spend money, it’s the top 20% and greater. The more you ear, the more you spend. But it is relative and obvious. When you make $12,000 a year and get a check for $600, that’s 5% of your income for the year as a bonus. That is only 1% above inflation!
The bottom 80% of Americans will use this stimulus payment to go shopping, not to pay off debts or to put into a high yeld savings account. The only people who will benefit from this stimulus are the rich.
The money is basically going from our government to the rich elite of America via the person who makes $3,000-75,000 a year. This money will be spent paying for the outrageous gas prices (it will fill your car ten 
times), it will be spent buying iPods and video games. It will be spent on vacations to Disney World. It will be spent going out to eat. It will be spent going to see movies.
This money will be put back into the hands of who had it first, the rich.
Economic Stimulus Payment Notice… ESPN, parent company? ABC. Parent company? Walt Disney. Sister companies?
- Film
- Walt Disney Pictures
- Touchstone Pictures
- Hollywood Pictures
- Miramax Films
- Buena Vista Home Entertainment
- Pixar
- Broadcast Television
- ABC Network
- Owned and Operated Television Stations
- WLS – Chicago
- WJRT – Flint
- KFSN – Fresno
- KTRK – Houston
- KABC – Los Angeles
- WABC – New York City
- WPVI – Philadelphia
- WTVD – Raleigh – Durham
- KGO – San Francisco
- WTVG – Toledo
- Cable Television
- ESPN
- ABC Family
- Disney Channel
- Toon Disney
- SOAPnet
- Lifetime Network (partial)
- A&E (partial)
- E! (partial)
- Radio
- ABC Radio
- WKHX – Atlanta
- WYAY – Atlanta
- WDWD – Atlanta
- WMVP – Chicago
- WLS – Chicago
- WZZN – Chicago
- WRDZ – Chicago
- WBAP – Dallas
- KSCS – Dallas
- KMEO – Dallas
- KESN – Dallas
- KMKI – Dallas
- WDRQ – Detroit
- WJR – Detroit
- WDVD – Detroit
- KABC – Los Angeles
- KLOS – Los Angeles
- KDIS – Los Angeles
- KSPN – Los Angeles
- KQRS – Minneapolis – St. Paul
- KXXR – Minneapolis – St. Paul
- KDIZ – Minneapolis – St. Paul
- WGVX – Minneapolis – St. Paul
- WGVY – Minneapolis – St. Paul
- WGVZ – Minneapolis – St. Paul
- WABC – New York City
- WPLJ – New York City
- WQEW – New York City
- WEVD – New York City
- KGO – San Francisco
- KSFO – San Francisco
- KIID – Sacramento
- KMKY – Oakland
- WMAL – Washington DC
- WJZW – Washington DC
- WRQX – Washington DC
- KQAM – Wichita
- KKDZ – Seattle
- WSDZ – St. Louis
- WWMK – Cleveland
- KMIX – Phoenix
- KADZ – Denver
- KDDZ – Denver
- WWMI – Tampa
- KMIC – Houston
- WMYM – Miami
- WWJZ – Philadelphia
- WMKI – Boston
- WDZK – Hartford
- WDDZ – Providence
- WDZY – Richmond
- WGFY – Charlotte
- WDYZ – Orlando
- WMNE – West Palm Beach
- WEAE – Pittsburgh
- WDRD – Louisville
- WPPY – Albany, NY
- KPHN – Kansas City
- WQUA – Mobile
- WBML – Jacksonville
- WFDF – Flint
- WFRO – Fremont, OH
- WDMV – Damascus, MD
- WHKT – Norfolk Radio Disney
- ESPN Radio (syndicated programming)
- Music
- Buena Vista Music Group
- Walt Disney Records
- Hollywood Records
- Lyric Street Records
- Publishing
- Book Publishing Imprints
- Hyperion
- Miramax Books
- ESPN Books
- Theia
- ABC Daytime Press
- Hyperion Audiobooks
- Hyperion East
- Disney Publishing Worldwide
- Cal Publishing Inc.
- CrossGen
- Hyperion Books for Children
- Jump at the Sun
- Volo
- Michael di Caupa Books
- Disney Global Children’s Books
- Disney Press
- Global Retail
- Global Continuity
- Magazine
- Automotive Industries
- Biography (with GE and Hearst)
- Discover
- Disney Adventures
- Disney Magazine
- ECN News
- ESPN Magazine (distributed by Hearst)
- Family Fun
- Institutional Investor
- JCK
- Kodin
- Top Famille – French family magazine
- US Weekly (50%)
- Video Business
- Quality
- Parks and Resorts
- Disneyland Resort
- Walt Disney World Resort
- Tokyo Disney Resort
- Disneyland Resort Paris
- Hong Kong Disneyland
- Other
- Buena Vista Theatrical Productions
- The Disney Store
- Disney Cruise Line
- ESPN Zone
- Disney Toys
- The Baby Einstein Company
- Walt Disney Internet Group
Basically, they now own you. For more proof, just scroll down, and down, and down and down and down until you see how much the Iraq War has cost compared to the government actually trying to fix our economic/energy crisis.
I’m clearly in a mood…
Oh, and I will probably spend my $600 check on a new lens, because I don’t want to disappoint the American People.