basiceconomics

do you remember your high school economics class? no, the one where you made brownies and a stuffed bunny was home economics. the other one, where they made you make a budget and learn to write checks. it seems as though our elected representatives have forgotten this class, even if they have remembered how to write checks... really...big...checks. there is a basic, and i mean BASIC, tenet of economics that can bail us out of the current "crisis." when you have a recession, put money into the middle class and the poor. it really is beyond simple. the middle class and the poor spend money. they buy stuff because they don't already have everything that they need. they pay off debt (mortgages! credit! hello!). they buy products/ services that create jobs. all of which puts money back into the economy. do you want to fix the shakeup in our economy without succumbing to the national shakedown proposed? call up your elected representative and suggest that they give all of this suddenly available flow to the taxpayers. if we guess that there are 200 million people over 18 in this country, we could each reap 3,500 dollars from a 700 billion dollar bailout. if we restrict it to the middle and poorer classes (those of us earning less than 250 thousand a year), it would be even higher. i am all for it! let those who suffer the most when the economy is troubled rebuild the economy from the bottom up. reaganomics is a sham that has cost us our shirts. start dialing, folks.

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