Fradam

Thanks to Kevin Rudd’s desire to stimulate the economy, I now have some unexpected cash. It’s a strange position. I did nothing to earn it, yet it’s there. There’s actually a peculiar discomfort with it. I cannot quite articulate it properly, so I might just fumble around a little and try. It’s an undeserved gift, if you will.. sounds familiar in a way, except there was no opportunity to accept or decline the gift, it just appeared in my account yesterday.

Now the question is, what to do with it? I feel there’s a sense of responsibility associated with it. The government wants me to spend it to help our economy, but as I understand it, unless you’re buying from wholly Australian owned businesses, that money is going overseas. That means most of the suggestions people have given me (car, chocolate, electric blanket mobile, computer parts etc) won’t really meet the intended goal.

I sort of feel like I’ve won the lottery and that the money should be going to a cause, or to help a need that I know of, but being woefully socially ignorant as always, my mind is drawing blanks. How shameful right? I know there is a tonne of need around me - locally, globally, and in people closer to me… and here I am wondering what to do with the money the government has given me. Something feels so self-indulgently unwholesome about this position.

So, my question to anyone who happens to reading this… what are you doing with your stimulus package? Do you have any suggestions? Just to reiterate, yes, chocolate has been suggested many times, but I don’t think even I could justify that much of it unless it was going somewhere else. Hmmmm…