Simple Arithmetic All Democratics Should Have On The Tip Of Their Collective Tongues [View All]

[ThomWV]

As you get the chance to talk to folks about the most recent fiscal outrage from this Republican Administration see if you can work this into the conversation. There are about 300 million people in the United States. A Billion dollars works out to a bit over Three Dollars per head* for every man, woman, and child in the country. That means that the AIG 85 Billion dollar bailout cost my wife and I $566, it cost my son, his lady, and his three children $1,415 - to be paid, with interest, for the rest of their lives. This is just for the most recent outrage. There have been others of course. In total Bush and Paulson have arranged roughly $400 Billion in bailouts thusfar - that works out to more than $1,300 per person.

Three dollars per person per billion. Keep it in mind. This is not chickenfeed.

* On Edit: $1,000,000,000(dollars)/300,000,000(people) = $3.33 per person