This is not my thought, but it obviously is from someone who understands money.

Well Now Here’s A Thought!)

I’m against the $77,000,000,000.00 bailout.

Instead, I’m in favor of giving $77,000,000,000 to all Americans as a ‘Dividend’.

To make the math simple, let’s assume there are 200,000,000 bonafide U.S. Citizens 18+

Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting every man, woman and child.
So 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up..

So divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billion that equals to a hefty $380,500.

My plan is to give $380,500 to every person 18+ as a ‘Dividend’
Of course, it would NOT be tax free. So let’s assume a tax rate of 30%.

Every individual 18+ has to pay $114,150 in taxes. That sends $22.8 Billion right back to Uncle Sam.

But it means that every adult 18+ has $266,450.00 in his or her pocket.
A husband and wife have $532,900.00.

What would you do with $266,450.00 to $532,900.00 in your family?
Pay off your mortgage – ‘housing crisis solved’
Repay college loans – ‘a great boost to new grads’
Put away money for college – ‘it’ll be there’
Save it in a bank – ‘create money to loan to entrepreneurs’
Buy a new car – ‘create jobs’
Invest in the market – ‘capital drives growth’
Pay for your parent’s medical insurance = ‘health care improves’

Remember this is for every adult U S Citizen 18+ including the folks who lost their jobs at Lehman Brothers and every other company

If we’re going to re-distribute wealth let’s really do it…instead of trickling it out

If we’re going to do an $77 billion bailout, let’s bail out every adult U S Citizen 18+

Here’s my rationale. We deserve it and we were not
invited to the last 10 years of ‘party time’ .
And remember, That this plan only really costs $54.2 Billion because
$22.8 Billion is returned instantly in taxes to Uncle Sam.

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It’s in the nature of any bureaucracy for the older personnel to move up in the organization, and so I suspect that the folks at the Tennessee Democratic Party headquarters are in their 50s and 60s.

What does that have to do with the price of tea in China, you ask?

I was born in 1962, and so I have a foot in both the Baby Boomer camp and the Gen-X camp. It’s my experience that folks older than I am (especially people my parents’ age– they were born in the late 1920s) tend to look to central authority for guidance, whatever the setting might be. It’s not that they can’t exercise initiative, they’re just reluctant to use it; they tend to defer to guidance issued by “experts”, which is presumably better than their own judgement. I think this has to do with having grown up in a world that was “run by experts”– whether it was the Great Depression, World War II, the Fabulous Fifties, or the Sixties, it was a world run (for better and sometimes worse) by an elite that was seen by many to have all the answers. And for a while, that world worked pretty well, especially after 1945.

People my age or younger grew up in a world in which it seemed the “wheels were coming off”. The economy basically went sideways (or worse) from the late ’60s through the early ’80s– the Seventies weren’t anywhere near as bad as the Thirties, but my father lived through both eras and was getting pretty nervous and cranky by 1980, watching this country go down the tubes, as he saw it. As I see it, looking back, it was a time when the “rule by experts” failed to deliver the goods, because it had reached the limits of what it could do.

Ronald Reagan, for all his faults (and he had many), was such a breath of fresh air after the Suffocating Seventies. His message of smaller government and more reliance on individual effort and initiative was music to many people’s ears, including my own. And his message worked. The ’80s were Good Times:

1) a roaring economy (which is still roaring, MSM doomsaying notwithstanding. Anybody out there remember the “misery index” from the Carter years? And do we hear about it now? I thought not, and I think we all know why);

2) a Soviet Union in full retreat, after it seemed unstoppable just a few years before, and on its way to the dustbin of history; and most importantly of all,

3) ordinary people finally getting the message that they were indeed masters of their own fates, instead of being told that they were mere playthings of the experts.

Reagan’s message reverberates to this day, I think– young people still want to “get involved”, but they’re not receptive to the “vibe” of “central direction” coming out of high places, a vibe leftover from the ’50s and ’60s that failed so spectacularly in the ’70s.

All of which, I suppose, is just a long-winded way of saying that if young people aren’t “getting their needs met”, it may be because the TNDP HQ and its field personnel are stuck in the past, and their message is turning off the young.

And the worst part of it is that the senior folks in the TNDP just don’t get it– the old ways worked for them, and now they can’t understand why they aren’t working today, or understand why those old ways are so repellent to young people.

It’s sad, really.

Even if I wouldn’t be caught dead voting for the Democrats, at least on the national level, it’s still sad. (Some of us remember how we, at the urging of the Democrats, sold the South Vietnamese down the river in 1974-75.)

Now, if the Republicans weren’t so authoritarian, and the Libertarians weren’t strung out on 9-11 Truther Kool-Aid, there would be someone I could actually vote for.

*sigh*

Hale Adams
Life Member, Libertarian Party
Pikesville,
People’s Democratic Republic of Maryland

Young people not getting their needs met? Like what? Tickets to a concert? Insufficient sex? Gold Blackberries? When I was young, if my needs were not being met I went and got what I needed. If that meant getting a job as part of it, well so be it. There is nothing stopping a 18yo from getting what they want. That includes lowering the drinking age if they organize.

Oh you are talking politics. Hate to tell you but the 18-25 demo generally could care less about politics regardless of party. Those that do who have a problem. Like they can’t whip out the cell and call the party headquarters? Pleeeze. That single paragraph destroys the balance of your whole article.

Instead, organize the people that they don’t think they need and TAKE IT AWAY FROM THEM. Elect some folks locally, if you can. Make networks with similarly situated people elsewhere. Obviously you have the Internet and know how to use it (Instapundit linked). Do they? Beat them over the head with it until they understand.

But if you want the organizing done, and the big guys can’t be bothered, you will just have to do it yourself. It’s America.