The federal government is helping to bail out one of the nation's financial rocks, Bear Stearns; the State of Illinois is thisclose to junk bond status. But we're getting free money from the feds and, if you're a senior, free rides from Illinois. Is this a great country, or what?
The Hound household received their "important message from the IRS on the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008" in the mail over the weekend with the warning: "Do not throw away!" In Illinois, when the feds tell you not to throw anything away, that could mean your indictment is days away from being filed.
In any case, the mailing from the Department of Treasury informed The Hound will be getting some money, as will 130 million American households, starting in May. It's a one-time payment. Darn, The Hound thought Uncle Sugar just has an unlimited suppy of money. Well, when it comes to Iraq, that appears to be true.
Regardless, The Hound gets some money to goose the economy. Plus, the family figures, with all the Hounders and Houndettes running under foot, there is some money coming back on the income tax refund. These dogs will be rolling in dough come May. Sounds like a road trip to a nearby casino to double our money!
In the meantime, Gov. Rod "Hot Rod" Blagojevich has given all you senior citizens free rides on mass transit. That began on Monday, if you have registered. It makes Illinois the only state in the nation to give seniors free mass transit rides. There are former Soviet states who don't give their seniors free mass transit rides. They don't even get that in Cuba. Hmmm, Blagojevich. Has sort of a subversive name, eh?
But The Hound digresses, as usual. Free rides aren't only guaranteed in the six-county Chicago area. If you live in Bloomington, Normal, Champaign, Urbana, Danville, Decatur, Rock Island County, St. Clair County, Madison County, Peoria, Pekin, Rockford and Springfield, you get gratis bus rides, as long as you are 65 and older.
Between George Bush and his head-in-the-sand Hooverville advisers and Rod Blagojevich's Supreme Soviet advisers, the middle class is being squeezed like sand in the hour glass. What a country.
