To Bail or Not to Bail...

[Egg]

THey should find the poorest people and give em $20,000 and tell them you have to spend this or you go to jail. That would help.

 

[Karama]

$1.8 trillion... there are 600,000 people in this country... If they want to stimulate this economy, they need to forget about the trickle DOWN effect and work on the trickle UP. Instead of giving money to big business; money that gets wasted... give $30,000 to every CITIZEN (fuck you illegal immigrants) and see how that stimulates the economy. Maybe people would actually be able to pay their CREDIT BILLS, and then the credit industry wont be so fucked. People may be able to afford houses, so the housing industry wont be fucked. etc... And if people want to spend their money on drugs and boos; at least they wont be able to blame the government.

Maybe then people could afford to get a one-way plane ticket to India... so they can get a real job.

I pretty much agree with this other than the fact that there are not 600,000 people in this country there are more around 303,824,640 (July 2008 est.) people and 1.8 trillion dollars would give everyone in the united states about 6,000 dollars granted wtf is an infant going to do with 6,000 dollars but hey they are set for a while and the infant cash would hopefully just go into a bank account which will help the banks. This will be a good start if the legislation granted all that money to people and if you were under 18 it had to go into a bank of your Parent/Guardian's choice under your name. or something like that

 

[Malice]

I love all the talk about how this stimulus package needs to hurry up and be passed, but only a portion will be spent in 2009 as people continue to lose jobs. WTF? This economy is fail.

I would write about what needs to be done, but it doesn't matter since the gubment is going to do whatever it wants anyway and spend the money in areas where I don't think spending is needed along with not fixing the problems that put us in this situation to begin with or hold anyone accountable for putting us in this situation. So the only thing I can do is have faith that things turn around quick.

But if you are really looking to stimulate an economy that is built on spending, you could start with actually giving money to people to spend and stipulate that they have to spend it so it's not holed away in a bank. And then from there, work towards fixing the other segments of our economy.

And for bonus WTFness, the government plans to spend $1 trillion + but don't know how. That's awesome.

 

[KowtowRobinson]

$1.8 trillion... there are 600,000 people in this country... If they want to stimulate this economy, they need to forget about the trickle DOWN effect and work on the trickle UP. Instead of giving money to big business; money that gets wasted... give $30,000 to every CITIZEN (fuck you illegal immigrants) and see how that stimulates the economy. Maybe people would actually be able to pay their CREDIT BILLS, and then the credit industry wont be so fucked. People may be able to afford houses, so the housing industry wont be fucked. etc... And if people want to spend their money on drugs and boos; at least they wont be able to blame the government.

The problem you face there is that you can't give people $30,000 and expect them to use it for specific purposes. Normal people aren't that different from the people running this show, in that they're largely selfish and stupid. The people in charge just have more shit to play with. You give 30 large to a normal person who's having a credit crisis, odds are they're gonna use it to buy more stupid shit. Cars, expensive TVs, DRUGS, things like that. Not many people who are in financial crisis are there completely free of fault. Some were just unlucky like that, but most of them are just fucking stupid.

The real problem we face, is how to distribute any bailout or spending packages to fix the problems we have now, while minimalizing the possibility of someone doing something fucking stupid with all that chedda. I'm honestly not sure there even is a way to do that.

 

[OuTk@sT]

Well, whatever you guys decide to do, you better do it quick, cuz your ecomony is fucking our economy in the ass without a condom.

The MAIN problem is not the system (although it's obviously pooched). It's ppl taking advantage of the system, instead of changing it, to line their own pockets to carry out the rest of their measly 75 year life span in luxury... they don't give a flying fuckwad if their children's children have to fit the bill... they will be dead and it won't bother them.