Comments on: Addressing The Dodd Amendment http://grassshackroad.com/addressing-the-dodd-amendment Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:46:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: MeetingsPodcast Guys http://grassshackroad.com/addressing-the-dodd-amendment/comment-page-1#comment-11237 MeetingsPodcast Guys Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:00:39 +0000 http://meetingspodcast.com/?p=297#comment-11237 This is a very interesting idea Gary. How are you promoting it besides the facebook group? Something like this really needs some serious traction. Thank you for the comment! Hopefully we can all band together and help us get through this time. Mike This is a very interesting idea Gary. How are you promoting it besides the facebook group? Something like this really needs some serious traction. Thank you for the comment! Hopefully we can all band together and help us get through this time.

Mike

]]> By: Gary Knowles http://grassshackroad.com/addressing-the-dodd-amendment/comment-page-1#comment-11235 Gary Knowles Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:30:33 +0000 http://meetingspodcast.com/?p=297#comment-11235 Friends in Travel- Your efforts to stop the demonizing of meetings and conference travel is closely related to our efforts to establish B.E.S.T. - the Bottom-up Economic Stimulus through Tourism program. I hope you'll join the travel industry leaders who have already signed-on to support "Everyone Gets A Vacation" at http://tinyurl.com/dju7qd ...Details follow. B.E.S.T. Send America on vacation to help the economy! After pouring billions into a black-hole bailout no one seems to understand and which gave us only greedy, rich, no-account executives getting richer and greedier as their businesses crumbled, it's time for a stimulus program that will work immediately for all hardworking American taxpayers. Let's ask President Barack Obama and Congress to put money where it will immediately create jobs and raise morale. Let's ask them to put dollars into the hands of those who will rapidly inject the money back into the local, regional and national economy. We need the Bottom-up Economic Stimulus through Tourism program. Call it BEST for short. It will send every adult taxpayer, their dependents and every adult Social Security recipient a check for $500. These checks will be good for use in 2009 only. And they can only be used in payment for a vacation (at least two nights and 100 miles from the home address) at state certified travel businesses (resorts, lodging, dining, transportation, amusement and tour operators) within the United States. Each state will publish a list of certified tourism businesses so individuals can quickly make reservations and start enjoying their "stimulus." This will money into travel businesses that will immediately hire workers to deal with increased demand. These businesses historically offer good employment to millions of people who are young, older, new to the workforce, minorities, students and many in need of part-time jobs. These people, and the businesses that employ them, spend and reinvest their earnings as fast as they get them. So they rapidly circulate the dollars back into their local communities. These earnings support other local merchants and organizations. These are the people who get a paycheck and spend it locally. They buy cars, make mortgage payments, pay for rent, food and other consumer goods. These businesses and their employees pay local, sales, state and federal income taxes, so revenues will increase. Of course a vacation would do everyone some good, improve morale, help families bond, build an appreciation of nature, educate traveling students and literally help get this country happily back on the road again. It will not solve all of our problems. But it will be a better, quicker and more successful shot in the arm than the useless and massive transfusion we gave to the walking dead in the financial community. We need BEST now! You can easily support the idea on-line by joining the FaceBook group: Everyone Gets A Vacation at http://tinyurl.com/dju7qd Gary Knowles, of Madison, WI is a travel writer and marketing consultant to travel, hospitality and entertainment businesses who served as Director of Communications for the Wisconsin Division of Tourism from 1979-93 under Govs. Lee Dreyfus, Tony Earl and Tommy Thompson Friends in Travel-
Your efforts to stop the demonizing of meetings and conference travel is closely related to our efforts to establish B.E.S.T. – the Bottom-up Economic Stimulus through Tourism program. I hope you’ll join the travel industry leaders who have already signed-on to support “Everyone Gets A Vacation” at http://tinyurl.com/dju7qd …Details follow.

B.E.S.T.
Send America on vacation to help the economy!

After pouring billions into a black-hole bailout no one seems to understand and which gave us only greedy, rich, no-account executives getting richer and greedier as their businesses crumbled, it’s time for a stimulus program that will work immediately for all hardworking American taxpayers.

Let’s ask President Barack Obama and Congress to put money where it will immediately create jobs and raise morale. Let’s ask them to put dollars into the hands of those who will rapidly inject the money back into the local, regional and national economy.

We need the Bottom-up Economic Stimulus through Tourism program. Call it BEST for short.

It will send every adult taxpayer, their dependents and every adult Social Security recipient a check for $500. These checks will be good for use in 2009 only. And they can only be used in payment for a vacation (at least two nights and 100 miles from the home address) at state certified travel businesses (resorts, lodging, dining, transportation, amusement and tour operators) within the United States.

Each state will publish a list of certified tourism businesses so individuals can quickly make reservations and start enjoying their “stimulus.” This will money into travel businesses that will immediately hire workers to deal with increased demand.

These businesses historically offer good employment to millions of people who are young, older, new to the workforce, minorities, students and many in need of part-time jobs. These people, and the businesses that employ them, spend and reinvest their earnings as fast as they get them. So they rapidly circulate the dollars back into their local communities.

These earnings support other local merchants and organizations. These are the people who get a paycheck and spend it locally. They buy cars, make mortgage payments, pay for rent, food and other consumer goods. These businesses and their employees pay local, sales, state and federal income taxes, so revenues will increase.

Of course a vacation would do everyone some good, improve morale, help families bond, build an appreciation of nature, educate traveling students and literally help get this country happily back on the road again.

It will not solve all of our problems. But it will be a better, quicker and more successful shot in the arm than the useless and massive transfusion we gave to the walking dead in the financial community.

We need BEST now! You can easily support the idea on-line by joining the FaceBook group: Everyone Gets A Vacation at http://tinyurl.com/dju7qd

Gary Knowles, of Madison, WI is a travel writer and marketing consultant to travel, hospitality and entertainment businesses who served as Director of Communications for the Wisconsin Division of Tourism from 1979-93 under Govs. Lee Dreyfus, Tony Earl and Tommy Thompson

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