Quote Originally Posted by maplemaker View Post
Just for the poops and laughs files, the money they're talking about paying would be enough to pay every single American roughly 2 million dollars each. Tell you what, congress, give me that money. I'll spend it much more wisely than you or AIG can...

I am not sure what money you are talking about, but the $700 billion bailout amounts to about $2,300 per person in the USA, not $2 million. $700,000,000,000 / 302,000,000 - that is the bailout divided by the population (approximate).

That is not to say it is good or bad, just that it is a few orders of magnitude smaller than you stated.

Lou