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[Bobby Headrick]

It would be nice for the Government to do something like this. Instead of giving the money to bail out some mega rich ceo's co, give the money to the people and we will get the economy going. WHo better to give it too, like the post above said, mortages could be paid off, bills could be payed off, etc, etc. It would get the country back quicker than letting the one's who broke us have more of our money to lose again. They could get by with giving around 300,000 to each TAX PAYING and Working Family and some others. Car's truck's boat's alot of big ticket items would move, jobs created, this is not a stupid plan actually it sounds better than the one GW and boys ahve drawn up, if they really want to help America then help American's

[RoadToad]

Wow, bad math and a total lack of understanding of basic economics, in one. You're right, Tim, and I hope whoever came up with this isn't in charge of any real money. Let's ignore the math problem (as Tim said, $85,000,000,000 ÷ 200,000,000 people = $425 a head, not $425,000), and say yes, go ahead, give everybody in America half a million bucks. Then we'd all be well off and live happily ever after, right? WRONG. The next day, gas would be $100/gal. Before long, we'd be like Nazi Germany just prior to WWII, with citizens carrying wheelbarrows full of money to the store to buy a loaf of bread. It's called inflation.