All You Can Eat Stimulus Bar. Yes America, apparently We Can Has Stimulus Package. Here’s an outline of the provisions. Note that the home buyer tax credit isn’t there. But the bill might give you indigestion. There might be a provision in there to require an electronically verified “white list” of people who can legally be employed. Anybody want to guess if that’s more accurate than the No Fly List? Business Week says that provision is now gone. Oh, and it turns out that 20% of government contract workers earn poverty wages.
Some Alternative Stimulus Ideas. Tim says why not just pay off everybody’s mortgage (which is what I was thinking when the unfortunately accurately named TARP came out). E.B. Misfit suggests tough love for certain Congressmen who thinks no good ever comes out of government spending. Update: The President is thinking small, but it sure sounds like “let’s pay some of these defaulting mortgages ourselves.” Let’s hope it helps people like this, who played by the rules and are now underwater through no fault of their own.
Food Fight. On one hand, the nice people at This Is Why You’re Fat give us turbaconucken. Vegetarians? You might not want to click on that. On the other hand, we have a guy eating himself skinny on “16 hard-boiled egg whites, one and a quarter pound of meat and four cups of vegetables, sprinkled with an occasional carbohydrate.”
Can you tell me how to get… How to get that upcoming new book about behind the scenes at Sesame Street?
All this and no merit badge. Junior Archeology buff builds ancient Japanese style hut, intends to live in it. More on the Jomon period at Wikipedia.
Happy Birthday Mister President and Mister Scientist. You knew it was Lincoln’s 200th birthday, right? Did you also know it’s the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin?
Oh, and one last thing. I finally joined Twitter. You’ll find me as bmagnus.
I believe $10,488.00 is the poverty line wage for a single adult under age 65.
In the Seattle metro area a one bedroom apartment on the low end is $800.00 per month. No heat. No lights. No laundry.
Poverty wage once assumed being able to afford housing and a minimally nutritious diet.
Perhaps the poverty level computation needs to be re-thunk.