I want my piece of the pie...

Okay, so this one has been bugging the tar out of me for a long time. Especially since I've had several weeks to sit and watch it unfold. I'm talking about the 'stimulation' of the economy. Can someone please tell me why, for goodness sake, are the leaders of our country throwing good money after bad and helping out the people who screwed up. Let's just look at the math, and you tell me if it makes sense.

$7.6 trillion (that's 12 zeroes) - the amount of money allocated so far to stimulate the economy. It's like a cow peeing on a flat rock. Everyone's getting wet, but when you realize what it is, do you really want to be standing next to the rock?

303,824,640 - the estimated population of the USA in July 2008. So... (I get "so" from the Dr Suess books I read my son.) I'm guessing that the total number of people seeing the $7.6 trillion dollars so far is probably the last six numbers that started this paragraph.

Just for "fun" devide the population into the dollars allocated. Did you get the number I did?

$25,014.43

Are you serious. They're planning to spend more than $25 thousand for every man, woman, and child estimated to be living in the United States, and we don't get one bit of a say so in the process. Can you say CRAZY!!!!

I'll just take my family for example. What could I do with $75,000 dollars? Let me tell you, a whole hell of a lot, and it would stimulate the economy too.

- I could put it in the bank of my choice(not the one that is on hand and knee begging to be kept a float)
- I could invest it into a business I've always wanted to open. (Bush's Chicken - If you haven't tried it you are totally missing out)
- That would create local jobs to employ local people.
- I would be paying taxes, and my employees would be paying taxes. The money would be going back to the Gov't.
- I wouldn't have to wonder how I was going to pay for the mortgage on my house, or loans on my cars.
- I could afford to pay for my child to go to school.
- I could afford to have insurance.
- I could afford to put food on the table for my family.

In short we all would be spending money again. Put it in a bank, start a business, pay for our jacked up mortgages, or throw one hell of a party. You get the idea. The list could go on forever. You could do whatever you wanted, and either way, your $25,014.43 would be stimulating the economy. And then, really and truly, the American people would get their vote on who should stay afloat, and who should go under.

But then again, what do we know, we're just the American People. We don't really have a say so, do we?

As for me, and for now, I'll stay on the Unemployment Line. Fill out my applications every week, collect my Unemployment check, and keep putting one foot in front of the other.

And waiting for the next line to come...