Economics According to Gus
Don’t ask me who Gus is. He (she?) is the author of one of those e-mails sent to a long list of people and forwarded to me. Whatever, Gus is a brilliant economist.
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As you may have heard the Bush Administration said each and every one of us will now get a nice rebate.
If we spend that money at Wal-Mart, most the money will go to China. If we spend it on gasoline it will all go to Canada, Venezuela, and the Arabs. How would that help the American economy? We need to keep that money in America.
The only way to keep that money here at home is to buy beer or spend it on prostitution, since those are the only businesses still in the US that are plowing their money back into the US.
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Good points, Gus. Except that if you buy beer, it will almost certainly be Danish, German, Japanese or Belgian (or, perhaps, Canadian) because most American beers are more or less undrinkable. As for prostitutes, they’re either enslaved to the Russian mafia, so their wages go God-knows-where. Or they’re Hispanic of one ilk of another, and send their money south of the border to take care of families who are working for pennies a day because of NAFTA. My God! even whoring and beer drinking have become un-American. The decline and fall is in full swing.
Comment by steve alber — March 3, 2008 @ 10:56 am
Doesn’t leave much, does it? Cash your rebate check and leave the cash as a tip in an out of town diner. (Not an in-town diner because you wouldn’t want to raise expectations where you’re known.) When all else fails, make someone happy.
Comment by Al — March 3, 2008 @ 3:53 pm