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[...] quotes a House leadership aide thinking really [...]

what the united states goernment is doing by bailing out wall st and private enterprize is condeming its citizens to poverty for generations to come. But washington is really cutting off the hand that feeds it and sooner or later will go down with the rest of us.

ran,

Your math needs a little work. If you give 200 million people (200,000,000) over the age of 21, 1 $million each ($1,000,000) it adds up to 200,000,000,000,000. That number can also be expressed as 200 million, trillion dollars.

Some people would call that 200 quadrillion, quite a bit of money.

IMO ~ Bailout + Stimulas package = Spread the wealth. No, Obama is right, that IS the way it has always been. Let us just see if THIS TIME it gets spread around to the "little folk". We Americans who see their "package deductions" in our paycheck every pay period! And another thing while I have your attention,...What about that BAILOUT of Citi while credit card "rate-jacking" is going on! And NOW IT AFFECTS ME!!! I have ALWAYS piad my bill ontime etc, etc, etc according to the "little words @ the bottom so outta site anyone smart would read them, but!!!... " highway robbery/loan shark...

We need to vote out all of these clowns in 2010 and replace them with people who will actually uphold the constitution as they have sworn to do. Borrowing and spending got us into this mess. It's not going to get us out. Basic economics and even more basic common sense. Oh but it's all about jobs. haha that won't matter when bread is 10 bucks a loaf.

Yes, ran, your math is wrong. You forgot six zeros ($200,000,000,000,000).

So when did this aide acquire so much greater knowledge then a blue ribbon economic team. Or we going to revert back to the Bush years when ideology and personal opinion trumped intelligence?

naqib, just a point Clinton did leave in debt but what you missed was Bush Sr. and the fact that Clinton was actually paying down debt and left congress and the American people with trillions in surplus to be dwindled but the MBA president Bush that apparently doesn't know how math works.

Ran – your math is way off. If you gave 200 people $1million each, it would cost 200 million.

Naquib – I'm not sure how much debt Reagan left us, but Clinton left us with a surplus.

What are you guys smoking?

Ran,

Check your math.

This will be the "Mother of all Pork" programs.

Infrastructure? How many people does a bridge employ once it is built?

Try creating some products, and wealth, and jobs. One time "stimulus" packages are just that.

And they dont work

Down With Pork!

To ran: Your adding is wrong. There are more than 200 adults in America.

I'm out of here.....

Unless my adding is wrong. If we gave every citizen over 21yoa $1million it would cost only $200million to get us the people out of this mess over night.

So, Obama puts this blue ribbon economic team together and this nobody in Congress thinks he knows best and wants to ignore the recommendation of the team???

Does anyone in Congress THINK, or is it all limited to involuntary brain stem functionality???

$350 billion in 77 days and another $500-600 billion in the future.

America please remember this come 2010. Kick 'em ALL out!

So, what is the point of the blue ribbon economic team if some nobody in Congress thinks he knows better and now thinks he alone knows what is best for economy?

Does anybody in Congress think anymore???

Reagen left us 3 Trillion in debt
Clinton left us 5.5 Tillion in debt
Bush will leave us 10 Trillion in debt

When does it stop?