Thom Hartmann: If you suddenly got $100 - would you hold it or spend it?

[thomhartmann]

Well - if you chose to spend it - that $100 could lead to great things for our economy.

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[House of Roberts]

1. The decision would depend on how easily I could get

the next $100.

[abelenkpe]

2. good point! nt

[1StrongBlackMan]

3. Or how badly you wanted to eat ...

or pay the rent, or pay the light bill.

it's a shame that so many have the luxury of saving ... so as to forget/ignore that others do not (realistically) have that choice.

[Larsonb]

4. Hold it and put it into savings.

[maddiemom]

5. Thom, just STOP! you're making too much sense. Having grown up in a

very Republican community where my mom was one of the few active Democrats (welcoming JFK when he passed through in his campaign), I can remember when there were "good" Republicans. They were complicit in cooperative government, and were used to working things out. Today, potential Republican candidates are being destroyed if cooperative. Bill Clinton ran into enough problems and became a major disappointment to me. Barack Obama, for whom I actively worked, has finished me off, politically. The Republicans are obviously controlling the system...or WAIT!... the powers that be are playing us in a way I could swear was not the case fifty years ago.

[CFLDem]

6. What $100?

That's how quickly it'd be gone

[DFW]

7. I tend to spend it, but not on just anything

I do not need a flat screen TV in every room of the house, a new car every two years, a new house (at all), or the penthouse suite at the Pierre every time I'm in New York City, and I wouldn't buy all that stuff even if I could.

On the other hand, we try to buy stuff we do need (food, household stuff when it falls apart) and want (vacations when we can find the time), and we try to buy from local merchants--wherever we are--rather than national chains, even when we know we'll probably be paying more, as that maximizes the multiplier effect. Obviously, we have the luxury of being able to do that, but it's our decision to do so. Spread the wealth, lessen the pain, so to speak.

[CTyankee]

8. if it's a check I deposit it. If cash, I use it for next week's groceries...