Trudy over at the blog that I used to be married to came up with a great idea, except for one little thing, she can’t add.
My son and I came up with a cool idea over Turkey Day prep: instead of giving these businesses the big bucks to cover their incompetence, why not give every American a million dollars?
That’s only three hundred million bucks – a bargain at current bailout rates. It would have to be accompanied by some price freeze legislation, to keep things on an even keel, but hey, it would certainly stimulate the economy!
There are approximately 300 million Americans not 300 Americans. Give each one a million dollars and that becomes 300 trillion dollars and that’s just a tad bit more than the 700 billion in bailout money:
300,000,000 X 1,000,000= 300,000,000,000,000
Piece of advice, next time the govt rolls out a stimulus package, use 20 bucks to pick up a copy of “Math for Dummies” or better yet… a calculator.
Wow. My kindergartener can do better math than that…
…came up with a great idea, except for one little thing, she can’t add.
Add? Don’t you mean multiply?
And yes, saw that and had a chuckle that economics advice like that was being dispensed.
Oh, and the bailout is $8.5 trillion so far, not $700 billion.
I was worried that multiply might have been too big a word. Seriously, I changed the sentence and neglected to proof read – I meant to say her figures don’t add up.
Yeah, we haven’t actually spent that yet 8.5 yet. Still, I was responding to her lame ass idea. I was gonna say that we should give every American a million dollars and a pony! Because ponies are cute and who doesn’t want a pony? LOL
What the hell good is a pony?!? How about the arrest, trial, and conviction of Donald Rumsfeld? Now that is something I’d like to have under my tree for Christmas….;-)
Yeah, we haven’t actually spent that yet 8.5 yet.
3.1 trillion has been committed so far.