Well, it certainly sounds more effective than the current bailouts, not to mention cheaper.

Actually, wait a minute...  paying 40 million people $1 million apiece?

That's a total of $4 trillion dollars, more than all of the bailouts combined.

I guess it's not such a great idea after all.  Had me fooled for a minute there.

I've lost track of how many billion/trillion/gazillion the bailouts are these days.. .....so I wouldn't know.

I still think the best way to fix the economy is to get rid of the government. 

That would take care of alot of headaches not to mention the budget. 

Give the power back to the states. 

And after this, people wonder why the general populace don't know much what they are talking about. This is important stuff people!

but it keeps changing......it's not going down tho....just up, up, up.  You haven't exactly given me any numbers yourself bucko...

besides, there doesn't seem much the general populace can do about it.  Our judicial system is in tyranny mode with no end in sight. 

Also a big difference between giving someone money (e.g. severance pay), and loaning money (with bailouts). With the loans, you'd hope to get most of the money back, making the actual cost of the bailout far lower than the headline rate. With the severance pay though, you wouldn't expect to get any of it back.

I prefer the low budget solution though - let every failing company (and individual) go under/declare bankruptcy, and use the funds to encourage new companies to start up. The new companies won't be troubled with loads of debt, and can focus instead on providing the market what it wants.

yes, good answer.  I agree.  Let them fail.  There's always someone there to take the empty place. 

Simple. It's because it's not my governement who is giving such amount of money. I won't start tracking the money your tax is used to bail out as well as mine's.

Oh, wait.. I don't pay taxes for now. Well I will in 2 months!

I have to agree on a general scale, except for some occasional exception.

Such exception would be some of the mega-banks, which are essential for the economy to keep rolling. But that's about it. Other companies should be allowed to fail.. But it's not my call to make

If you added to the end: "those people wouldn't be eligible for Social Security- Social Security funding fixed!" then it might be worth it.