Why, it’s almost unpatriotic.
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- March
- 17
So I get home last night and there’s an envelope in my mailbox telling me it holds my economic stimulus check.
Great, I think. I’ll have this baby spent in no time.
But I open it, and two things catch my attention. One is the size of the “check:” $7,000. The other is the Saturn logo in the upper left corner.
Why, this wasn’t a stimulus check from the government. It wasn’t a check at all. It was an advertisement for a car sale. Saturn of White Plains is offering a bunch of deals. But they don’t tell you that on the outside of the envelope.
No, all it says outside is ECONOMIC STIMULUS CHECK ENCLOSED and OPEN IMMEDIATELY DO NOT DISCARD. The return address says only “Program Headquarters.”
Well, you can’t not open that.
So I open it, and pull out this car ad. The $7,000, by the way, refers to the amount taken off the price of some of the cars to get them to sell.
I mean, I understand times are tough and we need to do what we need to do. And I know Saturn’s parent company, General Motors is hurting. (Though suddenly their stock is doing better than Gannett’s.)
But still. It’s tax time. This stimulus bill is the biggest thing happening in the country today. The question of whether it works will have a big impact on the country’s immediate future. To exploit that seems, well, almost un-American.
Then again, who am I kidding? Shameless advertising is as American as Uncle Sam (whose image, by the way, is on the Saturn ad.)
Sigh.
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