http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eat-the-pr ess/2007/01/31/irena-briganti-quote-mac_ e_39570.html

oh I take that back, a 2 year old probably would have stopped the game when the money ran out!

The Ben Stein Proposal

On Larry King Monday, ( 2008.09.29 ), Ben Stein proposed that instead of rewarding the banks, who caused this situation in the first place, that Congress should simply give the money to us. ( $700B / 300M Americans = about $2,333.33 ea. ). Americans could use these funds to help pay off those bad loans, which means that some of the “bad paper” would now become “good paper”, thus benefiting some of the banks.

Those banks most able to recoup from this would be the ones not overextended in the bad credit/loans in the first place. Those most overstretched would go under anyways — as well they should. The whole issue of Golden Parachutes becomes moot.

Those of us Americans who are not in this category of having bad mortgages or credit could simply spend the money, which would boost the economy as a whole.

This is not perfect nor without faults ( like inflation ), but it puts Main Street out ahead, before those lending institutions who created this mess. In the Monday’s proposal, Congress would have saddled the American Public with a $700B debt, while still enforcing those bad loans on everyday-America - and not offering much, if any, relief for them.

We need to do Ben Stein’s proposal. And the clock is ticking.

Please forward this to as many people as possible. This needs to go viral. Let Congress know, that you believe that Americans should get first dibs on their own money!