Sunday, March 22, 2009

Bailouts or Bullshit?

Question: If this government can give over a trillion dollars, OK?, over a TRILLION! dollars to big companies, who then use millions of said money to give bonuses to already rich employees and bosses, OK?, BONUSES!, because this will solve the problem of how to boost our economy, why can't they just divide that money up between each American, and let us boost the economy?

Seriously, if I had a nice chunk of change, I assure you, I'd pay off any debt I had and I'd certainly be spending a lot more money than I am now. Isn't that the problem as defined by the government in the first place? Didn't WE get blamed for this problem? We, the people, got ourselves into debt and then stopped spending any money and that's what caused this problem. Didn't I hear somewhere that it's all our fault? The fault of all us little, average, everyman Americans? All the biggies failed without our little guy support? Isn't that what I heard? Did I not hear it right? It's OUR fault?

Answer: Well then, it seems ridiculously, fantastically obvious, at least to me, that if we created this problem, we should be the ones receiving said bailout money! This way we can undo the problem which we, the people, have created. We, the people can bail us all out of said problem. Once we have these 'bonuses' in OUR hands, we would create the perfect jump start to the economy . We'd be paying off loans and mortgages so the banks and lending institutions wouldn't fail. We'd be paying and spending and buying and investing and paying it all with all that lovely bail out money. Doesn't it seem that if the opposite situation created this problem, then this is the only real viable solution? I do.

Hey, Gov, pass a trillion dollars this way, thank you very much.

Signed,
We, The People.
(OK, just me for now.)

PS: In case you don't know what one trillion dollars looks like, check it out.

One TRILLION dollars.

Start with a$100 dollar bill.

$100

This is a packet of one hundred $100 bills. It's less than 1/2" thick and contains $10,000.

$10,000

This is $1 million dollars (100 packets of $10,000). You could carry it around in a grocery bag.

$1,000,000 (one million dollars)

$100 million fits on a standard pallet.

$100,000,000 (one hundred million dollars)

And $1 BILLION dollars is quite a bit more, but look at the comparison of human to money.

$1,000,000,000 (one billion dollars)

Look at ONE TRILLION dollars. The bail out money the government is giving away is MORE that this! Can you even see the little human at the corner of the money? Realize that a trillion dollars is a million million. It's a thousand billion. It's a one followed by 12 zeros.

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$1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion dollars)

Notice these pallets are double stacked.

Are you shocked?

Do you want a piece of that?

Do you think if you got a piece of that, you could help start the economy moving?


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

That is crazy shit. I'm responded to you on Twitter.

Lady Lif said...

Holy cow!! That's a lot of moulah!