Tuesday, October 28, 2008

My solution for our economic slowdown

Here's some very quick math: The Congress approved a $700 billion bailout plan. There are, according to the latest census count, about 228,889,959 citizens in the United States over the age of 18.

If instead of writing checks to big corporations for the $770 billion, which yes, might eventually trickle down to us at some point, they were to distribute that amount equally to every adult in this country, we'd each receive a check for $3,058 in the mail.

Now imagine how quickly this economy would spur ahead if we were each given an extra three grand to spend - on bills, on Christmas and Holiday gifts, home improvements, clothes, or vacations. I think we would see faster and bigger results this way than by bailing out multinational companies.

There, that's all I'm going to say on that.

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