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Stimulus? I Don't Get It

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: February 11, 2009

Banks and financial institutions, they got it. Even though they're a major cause of the problem.

Car companies, they're getting it, although they have misread their market and overpaid their employees for years. But they're getting it.

Homeowners in foreclosure may get it, although their bad decisions contributed to the mess. Construction companies, and their many illegal alien employees, look like they'll get it too. But I don't get it.

I'm a near-retirement solid citizen who bought a home she could afford and has never missed a payment; pays her credit cards off each month; managed to salt away almost enough for retirement, until over a third of it disappeared last year; owns a small (actually, teeny) business that keeps four employees going; drives a hybrid car; and saves the dog water to water my plants.

But I don't get it. Really, I don't get any of it.

Some economic stimulus.

LOIS KOSTROSKI

Tampa

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