I WANT MY $9,718.49
I have been having pain in my stomach lately and my doctor told me I a have a severe case of I.B.S. No! Not what you think it stands for…it’s Irritable Bailout Syndrome.
When I read that $126 million dollars of the bailout package is being allocated to rehabilitate alcoholic Indians living on reservations, it aggravated my condition.
Then I read that Obama wants to cut the military budget of $512 million, at least 10% or a $50 million dollar reduction. Like that makes him prudent and sensible!
This bailout thing is starting to smell like rotten eggs.
Yesterday, I learned of a new and interesting plan from CNN Money and there are many people starting to think the idea is brilliant and sure to get the economy rolling again fast:
CNN Money.com took the total of the bank bailout, $700 billion, and added that to the proposed stimulus spending in the House of Representatives Bill proposing $819 billion. That amounted to a whopping $1.519 TRILLION.
CNN divided that number by 156.3 million people, which was the total number of U.S. income tax filers in 2008.
The resulting total is $9,718.49 and that amount would go to each and every U.S. taxpayer.
Would you rather get a check from the government for $9,718.49 and spend it your way, rather than let the government squander it on drunken Indians? And if so, what would you actually spend it on?
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- Published:
- 02.04.09 7:02
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- Finance, Makes sense to me
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