"Leonard Blaisdell" > wrote in message
...
> In article >,
> "Dimitri" > wrote:
>
>> I have been thinking about this whole bail out deal a lot. I am not going
>> over what the bail out is about, you guys already know and if you don't
>> just
>> search the topic in the search bar.. Anyway, instead of giving the banks
>> that threw us into this mess the 700 billion why not cut every American a
>> check for a million bucks??
>
> Although the numbers being tossed around now are ridiculous, three
> hundred million Americans times a million dollars equals
> $300,000,000,000,000 or three hundred trillion in US parlance. Or I got
> the math wrong and it's worse. If not, bzzzzzt. We're only into single
> digit trillion debt, not multi hundred trillion debt so far. Come back
> next year for relevancy.
>
> leo

The version I saw was to give people over 55 the money with some
stipulations. They had to buy or pay off their house, buy a car, and quit
their jobs so that others could work. There are flaws of course, but it is
better than ****ing the money away to AIG and GM.

Thee was a time that you could live comfortably off of a million bucks. Now
it willbe gone in 15 or 20 years depending on investments. .