I am not one to think too much about money I don't have, but I gotta say that slinkerwink's current reclist diary got me thinking....
There is surely a big facebook movement to forgive student loan debt and a Serious Person over at the Huffington Post even wrote that it was a great idea.
So I was surely thinking, and damn if I didn't figure out an even better way to end the financial crisis:
Give everybody a check for $100,000!
Think about the political upside. Giving everyone a hundred K would create a huge class of Democratic voters loyal to President Obama and the Democratic agenda as well.
And as opposed to the idea of just giving College Grads the big break, this plan is not gonna get gramps all riled up.
What better way can you think of to stimulate the economy? Think about it. What is a 500$ stimulus check or fuel efficiency tax cut gonna do for Our Country Tisofthee? Now think about how much stimulatin' we could do with 100K!!!!
Let's discuss this. If we are gonna bail out the scoundrels on wall street and the scientists, and the ditch diggers, and the pothole fillers, and the mass transit workers, and the auto companies (and their unions), then why the hell not a MEANINGFUL stimulus check for US?
UPDATE:
I was thinking some more, and I realized we could give everyone $200K.
UPDATE 2:
More thinking and I have settled on 1 Million Dollars, baby!!!!
We deserve it!!!!
UPDATE 3:
Many of you have noted that it would be nice to get a pony too. I am not sold on the idea, but what is populism if not geared toward a popular idea.
Fuck it, we're going live with the pony!!!!