If the Government gave each individual a check for $2200.00, what would you do with the money?

All these bailouts - we all know they will be never-ending. Now we see

Cities in line asking for money; Real Estate companies want money;

everyone who is doing poorly wants the Government to ';bail them out';.



I HAVE A BETTER IDEA. Interference in the Free Market is never a

good idea; the reason the housing market got into trouble is simple:

The Government interferred in the housing market when the Democrats

put pressure on Banks and lending companies to give out NINJA loans

which means ';no income, no job, no assets';; if you had a pulse, you

got a house, even if you had no job to pay the mortgage. When these

bills came due, there was nobody to pay them.



Instead of interference in the Markets, I propose to take the $700 Billion dollars and divide it equally among EVERY INDIVIDUAL with a

valid social security number: Thats NOT HOUSEHOLD BUT EVERY

INDIVIDUAL - Every man, woman and child. You do the Math: Thats about $2200.00 each person, since there are 306 million people in America - it would even be more than that per person, since not everyone living in America is a citizen with a Social Security number.



The immediate impact of each person getting this money would be:



1. SPEND IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS, helping the retail markets

2. BUY A NEW CAR/TRUCK, helping the auto industries

3. PAY DOWN CREDIT CARD DEBT, with money leftover to spend

4. MONEY DOWN ON A NEW HOME, helping the housing market

5. INVEST IN STOCKS/BONDS, helping Wall Street

6. INVEST IN EXISTING OR NEW SMALL/HOME BUSINESSES.

7. BUY HOME HEATING FUEL, in time for Winter - taking the burden

off the emergency energy assistance programs already stretched

to the brink, with money left to spend!



EACH INDIVIDUAL WOULD GET A CHECK, so for a household of

4 people, they would get a total of $8000.00; a household of 5 would get 10000.00 and so on.....

THIS WOULD NEGATE ANY NEED FOR ANOTHER STIMULUS PLAN.

AND THINK ABOUT THIS: Every homeless person (citizen) would get

the money - a mother with 2 children on the streets would get $6000.

total which would LIFT HER OFF THE STREETS AND GIVE HER THE OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME A CONTRIBUTING TAXPAYING CITIZEN

AGAIN.



IF YOU RECEIVED $2200.00, MULTIPLY THAT BY THE NUMBER

OF CITIZENS LIVING IN YOUR HOUSEHOLD INCLUDING EVERY CHILD REGARDLESS OF AGE, AND THEN ANSWER THIS:



1. FOR YOU, HOW MUCH MONEY WOULD COME IN ?



2. WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH THE MONEY?



This question is serious; instead of bailouts, I would like to get an

idea of how much better it would be for the economy to give the money

back to the American people. Please, serious answers only.



Thank you.If the Government gave each individual a check for $2200.00, what would you do with the money?
You have to remember, by giving everyone a check for $2200 would cause other issues. Where would this money come from? It would get printed from the Federal Reserve which would then be loaned to the government in return for bonds. So now the government just took out a loan for $2200 per person. Guess who gets to pay back that loan.... YOU do! The government uses OUR tax money to pay the loans. So it would be a wash.... well sort of a wash. Because after pumping all that extra money into the economy, inflation will began to happen, which will in turn make the American Dollar worth that much less than it is today. So yes, a stimulus check would be a quick fix, however, the repurcussions it would cause in the future would be as bad if not worse.



Bailouts will cause the same issue. We printed out $850 billion of new currency. That will cause inflation within the next few years and we will see the value of the dollar drop significantly. Now instead of using that money as a bailout, the government will instead by stocks in companies. I believe that is a HORRIBLE idea. The government is putting itself where it does not belong. No government should be part owner in so many financial institutions....If the Government gave each individual a check for $2200.00, what would you do with the money?
Spend some on Christmas and the rest for bills!
Sure I would like to get money back from the government but I wouldn't count on it, if I did get something back I would save it for the next time this happens.
It would barely register as a blip to the recovery of the economy. Spending that small amount of money would not juice it up. The problem is in the fundamentals of the economy. The big money players are being wiped out and they are the ones who gave us the appearance of easy credit which turned us into foolish wasteful drunken sailors.



Read some of the journalists over on the MSN money section. Jon Markman, Fleckenstein or Jubak. They may be doom and gloom at this point but at least they do a good job of explaining the problems in a way that all of us non-economists can understand.
i will spend 20 per cent in fixed deposits with good returns, 20 per cent in mutual funds, 40 per cent to be used in a information tec.-based new personal company, 20 per cent in insurance reliable company and rest in buying some house.
put new tires on the cars.

pay off one credit card and pay down another. :
|I wouldn't spend one red cent on Christmas or none of the crap about putting it backinto the economy. I would do what the banks are doing. I would look after my own azz and sit on it for liquidity and the desperate times ahead.

Just like the banksand all the other corp CEO's, I'd say, let some other sucker fix the economy
I would either use it to improve my house, pay part of my husbands car, or use it on student loans. I would not go blow it on useless crap.