Every day, some politician or somebody says something on the idiot box that gets me worked up over this. Yesterday a GOP senator said to Chris Matthews that the $700 billion amounted to $6,800 for every man woman and child in the country. Now I'm not going to get out the latest census reports and do the math, so for the sake of discussion we'll go with that. At the beginning of the year, $300 to every taxpayer was supposed to give the ecomomy a boost and get things going again. That's every taxpayer which is I believe only about 1/3rd of the population. So given that stratagy, why wouldn't given everybody in the country $6,800 sent the ecomomy into orbit ? I know, rather simplistic I agree, but my point is based on what FDR did during the Great Depression with the CCC and WPA. Rather than bail out Wall St, the government put people to work. Since the Chicken Little tag line for this current crisis is that it will create massive unemployment etc etc, why not spend the taxpayers money on the taxpayers. I don't have a clue and one thing I found interesting on Hardball yesterday was Chris Matthews asking Tom Delay to admit that nobody in Washington truly understands what happened, why, how, who etc so they are relying on the very people who are responsible for the mess in the first place for advice on how to fix it.
Just my rambling thoughts for the day
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