Found: Economic Stimulus Check (hiding where nobody planned)...
You came to us in May... that big bounty from our government. You were to find a home in the purchase of, say, video cameras and iPods, maybe Gameboys for the kids.
But we didn't find those things in our house. And we began to worry. Where was ol' economic stimulus check? Were you lost? You had come into our home with such high hopes and a promise to keep the good times rolling. Now we couldn't find you.
Imagine the relief when we finally figured out where you had gone. A note from the bank that told us that our escrow account didn't come close to paying off the local tax bill -- that's where you were you sneaky little eco-stimulus check.
The little trickster.
You were in there in the taxes that pays the city that has complained about being starved by the state's cutback in funds and the federal government's indifference. And those taxes that pay for the schools, which have been ordered by the feds to make sure the kids pass those tests (you know, No Child Left Behind and all).
This was the second time in the last six months that escrow had to be bumped up to cover such things. But eco-stimulus was now around, able to help.
Now you were found, or at least most of you. Pieces of you could also be spotted in the 40 percent increase in a pound of apples, the nearly $4-dollar-plus gallon of milk, not to mention the gas. Oh that's where a lot of your eco-stimulus brothers and sisters are tucked away, huh.
It's funny, the folks in Washington who gave birth to you and your buddy checks thought you'd be in shiny new toys and trinkets, maybe even part of new car down-payments... you know, boosting the economy.
But that's just like a kid... they have their own mind don't they.
Instead of big time purchases, little eco-stimulus check, is hiding in the places that are keeping us afloat.
We appreciate it.
I wonder if the Washington folks feel the same.
