Stimulus Needs To Stop!
ByThe American Heritage Dictionary defines the word Stimulus as “anything causing or regarded as causing a response. Something that rouses to action; an incentive.”
We continue to pour money to bail out AIG, banks, auto industry and the like. Instead of doing that, why not give every adult over the age of 18 a stimulus in the amount of 1 million dollars? That would be far less than we are pouring in to failing companies with no end in sight. What would happen if my company fails tomorrow? Would the government bail me out?
Look, I love my country. I’ve raised and educated my children, taught them how to be model citizens and not expect that they are entitled, rather they must earn their way in this world. We are telling generations to come that it is okay to fail because someone will bail you out if you do. In fact they will bail you out so much so that they will even pay you when you do fail. Is that a crazy concept or what? Don’t worry, if you fail we’ll give you money and prop you up.
If there is no fear of loss there is no fear of failure! Am I the only one that feels this way? I’d like to hear your comments as well. What happened to the american work ethic? I know – we’ve sent it overseas!
3 Comments
March 18th, 2009 at 11:23 am
i dont think the government shou;d have to bail eny body out.i think u should do it your self.
March 19th, 2009 at 10:39 am
It’s a nice thought but I think we need to double-check the math. I think it’s more like $3,612 per adult and not $1,000,000. See calculations below.
Stimulus bill – 800 billion (prox)
Total public debt (including stimulus) – 11 trillion
(prox)
US Population – 306 million
Over age 20 (72.4%) – 221.5 million
Stimulus per capita – $3,612
Total public debt per capita – $49,661
March 19th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Curt,
I think you missed the point. I understand the math but I was being facetious. Although I would prefer a million I was trying to drive home a point that we are throwing money away just to bail out companies that shouldn’t be. It is a problem with our business society where it’s okay to fail because the government will bails us out!