Has ANYONE done the math?

Once again, forgive me, but my cynicism is marked: regular voters a few months ago got an “economic stimulus” package that never paid more than $1200 for couples, and that was for a very few.  But this $ 700,000,000,000 that the banks are getting is monumental!  That’s right, just in case we had all forgotten, the figure has 11 zeros after the 7.

I divided that up by the number of citizens in the country–approximately 300,000,000 three hundred million, and the number I got was $2333.33!  Why don’t we get that much money and a measly, maybe $600 per head?  Perhaps the government could be even smarter and at least give us $2333.33 worth of stock in the companies we are investing in by taking on their FAILURES in our taxes.

And let’s be honest.  This bailout won’t be paid off by the one-foot-in-the-grave politicians writing the laws, but by ordinary people, and we’ll be paying it off for a long, long time.  In fact, I’m confident that my children will pay it off too (I’m 24).

The basic idea is this: if we’re helping out the largest financial insitutions in this country and also in the world, shouldn’t we become shareholders and make them at least partially answerable to us?

~ by hmkedar on September 23, 2008.