A bailout for the rest of us
The other day I posted an email that’s been making the rounds that endorses giving all the Federal bailout money to, well, us (rather than banks, insurance companies, real-estate conglomerates, failed car companies, and that asshole from A.I.G. who thinks he’s being treated shabbily). Someone has now taken a stab at the math and his results are in: Your personal bailout would amount to all of about $5100. Which makes sense when you think about it this way: $18 billion to the folks who during escalating foreign-oil dependency came up with the Hummer, and just enough for each of us to buy a right quarter section of one of their vehicles.