The Big Bailout (OT, or not)

On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:55:51 -0700 (PDT), riverman
wrote:

Just got this in the email. Food for thought...
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I'm against the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG.

Instead, I'm in favor of giving $85,000,000,000 to America in a We
Deserve It Dividend.

To make the math simple, let's assume there are 200,000,000 bonafide
U.S.
Citizens 18+.

Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman and
child. So 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up..

So divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billion that equals
$425,000.00.

My plan is to give $425,000 to every person 18+ as a We Deserve It
Dividend.

[... Remainder of effed up math snipped]

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BTW, just where DOES that $85B go to, anyway? Is it just an infusion
so the Wall Street Block Party can carry on, as usual? That's some
party.

--riverman

Ugh - I think I'm gonna puke - but I actually have to agree with Dick.

Maybe this was written by an Englishman - where a billion is a million
million.

In the USA, a billion is a mere thousand million, so the hand-out per each of
the 200 million recipients would be a scant 425 bucklettes.

/daytripper (and the answer to your question is clearly: yes)