[Peace-discuss] FW: Interesting Economic Recovery Plan--- Please read ---This is clever

[John W.]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Stuart Levy <slevy at ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote:

This plan isn't as clever as it seems -- like another posted here recently,
> it dropped a few decimal points.  Dividing the AIG bailout by the US adult
> population yields more like $425 per adult, not $425,000.
>
> It's interesting to divide the national debt, nearing 10 trillion dollars,
> by the population.  *That* amounts to more than $30,000 for every person
> in the country.


Could that explain why the balance in our IRAs, etc., is dropping
precipitously from month to month?  Could we actually be paying off the
national debt?  If not, where on earth is the money GOING?  Who's getting
it?  Does anyone know?

John Wason




> > An interesting take on US bailouts.
> >
> >     Subject: The Birk Economic Recovery Plan
> >
> >     Hi Pals,
> >
> >     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.
>
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