Bailout Ballyhoo

Just how naïve am I? Perhaps the question should be just how stupid are we as a population?

Layoffs, foreclosure, consumer debt, we, the workers, the general population; we are the ones that are being impacted by these conditions. We, the general population, are faced with hardships that are incomprehensible, to these poor, long suffering CEO’s.

Daily we are shown images of rooms full of executives, discussing bailout and stimulus, in suits that cost more than your mortgage payment. Let’s not be bone stupid here, do NOT think for one moment that the suit they wear on Monday is the same suit they wear on Tuesday; or; wear to dinner the same evening.

Dinner; I am NOT talking about a macaroni casserole out of a cardboard box!

I am talking about dinner at some of the most expensive restaurants in the country. The cost of the aperitif, the wine, the meal, the desert, the Brandy (or the after dinner drink of choice), cigars (where permitted) and the tip; is enough to feed a family of four for a week!

These Kings, Queens and Princes of Banking and of Industry, do they know what it is like to budget?

Not bloody likely!

Do you remember history? Do you remember the Bastille? Do you remember; “Let them eat cake.”?

Do you remember how to organize, to protest?

Do you remember the Guillotine?

It is time we used the power we still possess, to chop off these corporate heads, and, while we are at it, it is time to include our so called “government representatives” in our scrutiny.

The government is providing stimulus/bailout; what is the current figure?

The numbers attached to dollars are almost incomprehensible; $700 billion, $800 billion; lets just round it out to $1 trillion.

Now that is $1,000,000,000,000.

The population of the United States is 300,000,000.

If the STIMULUS money was spread out through the population, each person in the United States would receive $3,333,333.33.

Ask yourself, is that enough to pay off my credit? Is that enough to pay off my mortgage? Is that enough to buy groceries?

The obvious answer, “yes it is”.

Why bailout banks; just so they can LOAN you money at a hefty INTEREST rate, so THEY, can continue to show BILLIONS of dollars in PROFIT!

GET A GRIP PEOPLE!

When the people have the means to spend, they buy. Someone has to make what the people buy, and jobs are created.

Give the PEOPLE the MONEY. Put a MORATORIUM on PERSONAL CREDIT in the United States for five years.

The Banks and Industry will still make their profits, just not quite so much; and NOT, by standing on the throat of the economy; and more to the point; NOT by standing on the throat of THE PEOPLE!

Oh, by the way, the Bailout/Stimulus, if it goes down the way “they”, and the president, want, conservatively, your grandchildren’s grandchildren will be paying for it.