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Stryguy Donating Member (163 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 02:46 PM
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Your gonna spend your $100 gas rebate check on?
If republican's get their way we'll all get a whopping $100 gas rebate check. What a bail out in this times of need!

I think I'll spend my $100 on filling up my minivan and car just 1 time. It will last me a week and I'll basically be in the same place I am today. Spending money I don't have on gas.

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babsbunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 02:47 PM
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1. Beer!
:toast:
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SmokingJacket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 02:47 PM
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2. Doctors Without Borders will get mine. nt
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formerrepuke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 02:48 PM
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3. Donate it to the ACLU..... that'll piss the R's off.
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poverlay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:46 PM
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31. I've already got the check written... n/t
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High Plains Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 02:48 PM
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4. Gas.
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 02:48 PM
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5. Send it to a worthy DEM candidate for Congress or Senate!
Imagine what a few million citizens doing THAT could accomplish with money that was theirs to start with!
:evilgrin:
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billybob537 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 02:48 PM
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6. He'll just borrow it from China.
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Beelzebud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 02:49 PM
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8. He'll borrow the cash from China, and have workers in India mail it to us.
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yasmina27 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 02:49 PM
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7. Send mine to the DNC, MoveOn, or some other progressive group
:kick:
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:01 PM
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15. Yup. Me, too! You betcha'.
But, what a fucking stupid proposal, "$100 rebate"! :puke: It's not addressing the problem, which is that these companies are gouging the hell out of the American people and being given tons of "the people's" monies to do it.

Why not make them PROVE they're utilizing their welfare toward alternative energy sources? Why not PUNISH them for controlling the market such that the common man is being exploited just for existing in the U.S.A.? Why not threaten to break those freakin' monsters up into twenty separate companies, independently owned and operated, if they fail to reign in their profiteering abuses?

$100 rebate is meaningless, nothing, stupid, irrational, garbage in terms of problem-solving. Typical of the GOP pigs at the trough!!! :grr:
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oldtime dfl_er Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:20 PM
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28. half to moveon.org
and half to mediamatters.com


http://www.cafepress.com/scarebaby/1386797
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LuCifer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 02:50 PM
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9. If it won't cost much...
...I'll use my $100 (what the fuck? I love how the GOP thinks we're all stupid...assholes!) to convert my car to SOMETHING OTHER THAN GASOLINE!

Lu
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 02:50 PM
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10. Nah, the dept of Education
will take it and send me a nice thank you letter demand 11 zillion dollars in back interest.
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DanCa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 02:51 PM
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11. Hookers like Duke Cunningham. (nt)
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 02:51 PM
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12. Buy two $100 Savings Bonds.
Give 'em to relative's kids to pay off the national debt used to send out the $100 'tip.'


Seriously, those on fixed incomes and the long-term unemployed won't see that $100. That's only for folks with incomes. Those who're hurting the most won't see shit.

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radfringe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 02:54 PM
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13. going to go to
the most capable organization dedicated to impeaching bush
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stray cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:01 PM
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14. Progressive patriots fund and a letter to the editor explaining
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:03 PM
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16. 900 rounds of 8 mm Mauser rifle ammunition
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newportdadde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:03 PM
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17. Rebate or advance on next years refund?
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elmerdem Donating Member (312 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:06 PM
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18. canned goods & bottled water...
...and then sit back and wait for the GOP to finish diving this country into the ditch!
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rd_kent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:07 PM
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19. What a load of shit!
I saw this on the news last night. This is just a ploy to try and appeal to low income people. To many, ANYONE who wants to give them $100 must be a good guy, right?
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earthmama Donating Member (313 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:08 PM
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20. adding it to my move back to canada fund ... but really
Edited on Fri Apr-28-06 03:08 PM by earthmama
probably donate to heifer international.
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mb7588a Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:11 PM
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21. I'M GONNA KEEP IT.
Because I don't use an environment-killing, labor-exploiting, gas-guzzling mechanical monster machine to get from Point A to Point B. I live in a city where I'm able to live very comfortably without a car (I wish everybody could!). $100 will actually cover about 3 months of mass transit costs for me. It's about time somebody rewarded me for all the damn walking I do!

BUT seriously, for those of you who do drive.... this is idiotic. What is $100 to you? A week of gas? Two weeks?

I'd entirely prefer not to get it. I'd prefer if it went to the national debt, or to the EPA for research on renewable and cleaner energy. I'd prefer if it went to getting armor for our troops. I'd prefer if it went to getting new text books for our schools, or better loans for higher education students.
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:12 PM
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22. DC prostitute
Have to use money. I don't have votes I can exchange for such services.
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MazeRat7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:15 PM
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23. I think I'll give it to the pizza delivery guy as a tip. (n/t)
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AllieB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:18 PM
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24. Heating oil for next winter
so we can lock in a discounted price. and probably more gas for the car. :eyes:
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jsamuel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:18 PM
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25. 100 cups of coffee
Edited on Fri Apr-28-06 03:22 PM by jsamuel




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LaPera Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:19 PM
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26. Leave the oil companies alone-Its your fault-Here's $100 now shut the fuck
Edited on Fri Apr-28-06 03:48 PM by LaPera
UP! And don't forget to vote republican!!!

$100.00 of our own tax dollars...that we'll have to repay the following year...BushCo blames the American people for wanting & needing gas...

One of Bush's first acts as president was to immediately demolished legislation for higher mandatory MPG in ALL vehicles! Use more gas, buy more gas, more profits, more...more...

Now take take $100.00 leave the oil companies to their billions in PROFITS...and for that hundred bucks we expect to drill in the pristine Alaskan wilderness and give the oil to the oil companies to sell back to you at gouging prices...and give the oil companies a tax break and subsidies from our tax dollars....Groovy!!!!
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berni_mccoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:19 PM
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27. Send it to the DNC!
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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:30 PM
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29. My daughter's glasses (had an eye test yesterday)
She's gonna need 'em. :)

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wovenpaint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:46 PM
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30. Sending it to a worthy Democrat running for office! n/t
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scarlet_owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:47 PM
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32. I'd spend it on pot.
I just don't drive that much.
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-28-06 03:48 PM
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33. Everyone should send it to the Democrats running for congress...
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