Stop the $85 BILLION dollar bailout of AIG

I'm against the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG. = $85 BILLION dollars. Instead, if they want to give money away, I'm in favor of giving the $85,000,000,000 to American citizens in a 'Good Citizen Dividend'.  It turns out the math of this whole thing was wrong, and if they divided up the $85 billion between all 200 million adult citizens in the U.S. it would come to $425 per person.   Sorry for the confusion.

$425 per person isn't a lot of money, but I'd rather it went to the people than to AIG.    Kinda makes you wonder what our government could really do for us if it wanted to... And it also makes you wonder who the government is really serving.   How about taking the $85 billion and rebuilding our roads and bridges and public school system instead of rebuilding Iraq...?  Our defense budget is $650 billion dollars this year.   Imagine if our government plowed a good portion of THAT into its citizens welfare for the common good?

 As I originally suggested, I still think more people oughta be able to:

* Pay off their mortgage - and we could use a few less banks as well. 
* Buy a house - stimulate the economy, invest in your future, and build your self esteem.
* Refit your home with green, energy saving technology and appliances.  Install solar panels and wind generators and give the coal fired electric generation plants a rest. 
* Pay off college loans - what a great boost to new grads, and Moms and Dads with children in college... and put away money for your children's education - so it'll be there when you need it.
* Promote peace instead of war.
* Buy a new electric car - create jobs and stimulate the economy, and   lower your carbon footprint.
* Invest in renewable energy sources - capital drives growth, the environment is restored, and we can leave the internal combustion engine behind.  * Require all industry to convert to renewable energy sources within five years.  Let's clean up our environment and Go Organic.
* We might even start a new political party or two, and then we might  have better choices during a national election.

When I was growing up, my father was a draftsman for an engineering firm, pretty low on the totem and the pay scale; and yet on that income alone, he bought a nice brick house in suburbia and drove a nice car and my Mom stayed home and raised the children.  How many incomes do we need today...?  The REAL issue is that if they bail out AIG or anyone else, all they'll really do is authorize the Fed to print more money - and further inflate our currency; so our existing dollars will be worth even less.

As for AIG -
* liquidate it.
* Sell off its parts.
* Sell off the real estate.
* Let the private sector bargain hunters cut it up and clean it up.
* Let AIG be responsible for it's own business.

Here's my rationale.  Once upon a time we were a nation of the people, for the people, and by the people.  And our currency was backed by gold.   Sadly, that is no longer the case.  Since 1971, the Federal Reserve has been printing money for nothing.   Our dollars are not backed up by anything of value, (like gold) which is why the dollar now has a purchasing power equal to about four cents.   Every time the World Bank loans millions to some fat dictator so he can have a coronation, they just print more money to finance the deceit.   Every time the government bails out a big bank or a brokerage house, they do so by printing more of our fiat currency, which lowers the value of our existing dollars.  The mere fact that our congress has even breathed a word of such a bailout of big business is proof that the people are no longer represented.

It's about time we were. 

thank you.

blessings