Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:05:18 -0500
From: Mary Horsley <mphorsley-AT-earthlink.net>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Bailout issue


Tell me once again, someone, about this new regulation the government has
placed upon children's books and used toys? Just went to a favorite thrift
shop and all of these items were bagged up to be taken to landfill. Is this
stupid or what?

Mary H. 


On 2/16/09 12:33 PM, "Charles Taylor" <cecetaylor-AT-verizon.net> wrote:

> Bailout issue

In rethinking Jim Gamble's remarks of yesterday:

There is one
> major flaw in Jim=B9s tonngue-in-cheek-answer for Americans 
facing the bailout
> issue and that is:

Jim humorously implies that ALL the Economic Stimulus
> Payments will be 
sent to  taxpayers.  That money is only a small portion.
> The majority 
of money will be divested in many ways.  One of the ways will be
> 
infrastructure that we badly need: the building of roads, bridges,
> 
buildings, parks, schools and other needed infrastructure.  This will 
create
> massive jobs, not too unlike the W.P.A. of the New Deal by 
F.D.R., Franklin
> Delanor Roosevelt.   We had many puppeteers that made a 
living from W.P.A.
> Ralph Chesé, Vera Leaper, Bob Bromley, Wayne Barlow 
even Bob Baker, as a
> young boy comes to mind.

Jobs are an important part of this stimulus package.
> Any store you 
spend your money will need clerks, stock personnel, human
> resources etc. 
That employs people.  People with jobs and incomes can pay
> their 
mortgages keeping their houses from being repossessed and preventing
> the 
housing market from collapsing further.

People with jobs and knowing
> they have financial security are more 
likely to hire a puppeteer than if they
> are watching their pennies for a 
next meal.
It is all interrelated.  When we
> lose confidence in money, we fear we 
will run out of the real necessities of
> life: food, shelter and 
clothing. We begin to hoard. I remember that hoarding
> brought about food 
stamps. People in the thirties and forties bought freezers
> for their 
garages to store large amounts of food. They stocked their pantries
> full 
for emergencies.

In California, we are encouraged to keep extra
> supplies outside of the 
house in case of earthquakes.  That hoarding is
> caused by fear.  Fear 
causes the collapse of the economy. That is why  FDR in
> his first 
inauguration said, =B3There is nothing to fear but fear
> itself!=B2

There are many sides to this issue. There are not easy solutions but
> 
something MUST be done or we could see a total collapse of our economy.
> 
That, I don't think any one wants to
> happen.

Charles
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