Check’s In The Mail (Not Yet) Poem by Joe Rosochacki

“I’d gladly pay you Tuesday, for a hamburger today” Is what Wimpy said Popeye.

“Our economy is still strong, ” is what President Bush said to the country.
Which one is the comic character? It is not I.
Tell that to Wall Street Investment Groups who bet on sub-prime loans,
And wrote hundreds of billions dollars off the ledgers and forecast charts,
It is good when you are the CEO in charge of Wal-Mart,
Halliburton or of the Exxon-Mobil Oil Company.
What prompted the President to get economic stimulus package in before the Congress?
If the economy is then good why all the fuss?
Yes, we are in a Recession for all of you that are in a depression.
The plan would include “TAX REBATES” in order to have you spend more money.
First of all, why does the government have money? It is not bank.
It non-profit, based the idea supposed to be a non-profit, organization,
It does not manufacture money, Whose money is it anyway?
IT’S OUR MONEY, WE THE TAXPAYERS.
So what we to do with this money that was confiscated by the IRS?
According to Lakshman Achuthan, a respected economist that appeared on CNN,
On Saturday January 25,2008 approximately at 2: 00 pm,
He suggested that we may spend it on a Video Cassette Recorders, VCR, WHAAAT? ? ?
What shall I buy either analog BETA or analog VHS? Or a Laserdisc?
Shall I buy quadraphonic receiver with quadraphonic 8 Track by Magnavox?
All circa 1980’s, this is 2008, what’s with guy? H E L L O?
Earth to Lakshman? Earth to Larkshman? Come in please, Lakshman?
Is it a space oddity? Ground control to Major Achuthan riding in his tin box.
Was Achuthan a Pharaoh? Because he speaking presently about some past things.
A time warp if you will, Captain Kirk says “Zulu, warp factor one.”
I couldn’t believe my ears, though they are dirty at times.
What the American taxpayer do with $300.00?
Hardly jump start the economy by feasting out at: SONIC, BURGER KING, McDONALD’S. The fine cuisine of life, ----beware of the fat police of the FDA. That’s if we get the check by Christmas 2008. It’s a band aid on a ruptured artery;
It’s like putting super glue on the Titanic,
Not the model, the one that sunk,
Oh! It’s too late. Without all the foreclosures,
With a $19,000,000,000,000.00 credit card debt, To put it perspective,
If the government gave $300 to a USA citizen, uh—uh, Like in Iraq uh Africa, uh-uh,
In the US, (According to Lauren Caitlin Upton) That $300 times 300,000,000 people,
Would be $90,000,000,000.00, it is hardly a dent,
In the debt we owe, we will have to try hard not go down with plunk,
It makes one go out to package liquor store invest $300.00 and get drunk.

(1-27-2008)