The bill is still laden down with billions of pork and very little of it will actually create jobs or even help the economy (likely the opposite) but at least they cut out some tiny amount of waste. picked by 2manyusernames 10 months ago tags simulus bill porkulus congress economy |
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Wonder where all that money is going? Well wonder no more, here are 14 pages of fun economy stimulation. picked by Gammerus 10 months ago 0 comments edit related share politics |
A guy stops off at his local Taco Bell after work and decides to pay with a $2 bill instead of a $50 to make things easier for the cashier. 12 comments edit related share entertainmentHilarity and Asshatery ensue. picked by doggylives 2 years ago |
They may skim it, but Harry Reid refuses to allow a week to pass so that all the public can review the bill - much as they did with the stimulus bill. All this despite the promise Obama of a 5-day wait before any bill was signed into law. picked by 2manyusernames 5 months ago 5 comments edit related share politics |
At least in this video he is. Bill Gates is retiring from Microsoft to spend full time on his immense charity. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago 4 comments edit related share plime.com |
The chairman of Microsoft and one of the world's richest men, Bill Gates, is stepping down from his job running the world's largest software company. picked by psycmoe 1 year ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
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[sarcasm]I know this will make many of you cry[/sarcasm] but Bill O'Reilly has announced that he will step down from his very successful syndicated radio show. picked by bernardblack 12 months ago 9 comments edit related share entertainment |
The US Senate has approved a rescue bill designed to prop up America's battered housing market. Will it help at all? picked by Jerry520 1 year ago 2 comments edit related share politics |
Here's a collection of rare early Bill "Calvin and Hobbes" Watterson's toons from The Kenyon Collegian, his college paper from Kenyon, Ohio. They're a little edgier than the Calvin and Hobbes strips (but not as funny) picked by titojuante 2 years ago 7 comments edit related share plime.com |
Ten Thousand Cents" is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task. Workers were paid one cent each via Amazon's Mechanical Turk distributed labor tool. Site also has a video with all 10,000 parts being drawn simultaneously. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago 2 comments edit related share arts |
In January, Congress approved $152 billion in economic stimulus checks for millions of American households, intended to boost the economy and avert a recession. Just how this money will be spent remains to be seen. This website is dedicated to personal stories of what some Americans decided to do with their checks. picked by TraumaMamma 1 year ago 8 comments edit related share plime.com |
Coming soon to a cash register near you: a new $5 bill sporting some touches of color for the first time. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago 4 comments edit related share plime.com |
Klassik Bill Bailey. picked by PumpkinSeeds 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
An outstanding utility bill could have caused an elderly blind woman her property. But, thanks to some kind citizens, her debt has been settled. Update on this post. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
Jessica Brovitch was relieved when her 7-year-old son was only scraped and bruised after a van collided with his bicycle on Nov. 9. But she was shocked when the child later received a bill for $650. picked by muppet 2 years ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |
President Barack Obama cited his own long struggle to quit the cigarettes he took up as a teenager as he signed the nation's strongest-ever anti-smoking bill Monday and praised it for providing critically needed protections for future generations. picked by bingo 5 months ago 4 comments edit related share plime.com |
Born in 1900, Bill Stone first tried to enlist in the Navy when he was 15 to serve his country. He successfully enlisted aged 18. 5 comments edit related share plime.comHe stayed in the service until 1945 and was the last veteran to have served in both WWI and WWII. He is survived by Henry Allingham, 112, and Harry Patch, 110 who both served in WWI. picked by pocksucket 11 months ago |
Help wanted: pharmacists, engineers and nurses. Believe it or not, even some banks are hiring, at least for their technology teams. 3 comments edit related share plime.comWhile the recession has claimed 4.4 million jobs, the economy has created others, many of them for highly trained and specialized professionals. More than 2 million jobs openings now exist across a range of industries, according to government data. picked by bingo 9 months ago |
A Canadian man has been shocked to receive a mobile phone bill for nearly $85,000 picked by maxriter 2 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
The new version of the bill would allow the president to "declare a cybersecurity emergency" relating to "non-governmental" computer networks and do what's necessary to respond to the threat. picked by Bornbad 3 months ago 4 comments edit related share politics |
Jim Carrey as Fire Marshall Bill on the Star Ship Enterprise. picked by MeLip 1 year ago 3 comments edit related share entertainment |