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Shortly after George W. Bush proposed his first stimulus rebate check program it was about March last year, or February, with the checks beginning to arrive in June. Remember this? And what was the amount of those checks? Was it $600? Six hundred dollars for a single and $1,200 for a couple, something like that, right?

I want to remind you of a quote from the first lady, Michelle Obama.

In context, remember, Obama’s stimulus tax plan gets you 13 bucks a week starting in June, and that reduces to eight bucks a week starting in January.

Michelle was in Michigan. This is just after she and her girls had an Access Hollywood interview, making fun of their dad’s ten-year-old slacks.

Michelle speaking to a group of people in Michigan:

“You are a getting $600,”

…meaning the rebate.

“You’re getting $600. What can you do with that? I mean, not to be ungrateful or anything, but maybe it pays down a bill. But it doesn’t pay down every bill every month. Barack’s approach is that the short-term quick fix kind of stuff sounds good and it may even feel good for that first month when you get that check and then you go out, you buy a pair of earrings.”

Remember that quote? So the first lady in June of 2008 making fun of a $600 rebate check, and is now praising her husband, whose rebate plan gets you $13 a week.

Revisionism Politics begins early in this new administration.

I realize that some of you, particularly you Democrats, do not want to hear a detailed analysis of all of the provisions in the stimulus package that passed Congress; you have that in common with the politicians who voted for it.

So I’m going to meet your expectations and cut to the chase. I’m going to give you to bottom line and answer the one burning question you have:

“What’s in this stimulus bill for me?”

Well, if you work, you’re going to get a tax credit from Obama — if you make less than $75,000. Not the $500 he promised you during the campaign, but a $400 credit. You couples will get 800 bucks, not the thousand you were promised. After the government does the paperwork — and adjusts your withholding taxes — you’re going to get about $13 a week. Next January, it goes down to $8 a week.

Now, don’t sneer. That’s a lot of money. You can buy a Happy Meal every day. If you’re frugal and save it all up, you might be able to go to the gas pump and splurge once a month. Fill up the tank to the brim!

So you see, folks, in America, hard work pays off after all. The hope and change we prayed for has arrived. Hope can be delivered to everybody everybody! — for a mere 13 dollars a week (until January)… and you even get to keep the change after you buy that Happy Meal.

Nice…

Can’t wait to see what’s next.

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