I'll pay $7,000 to keep the USA alive if everybody else will

WHEREAS: The US Treasury wants — and says it needs — 700 billion extra dollars right now.

WHEREAS: The US Treasury wants — and says it needs — taxpaying US citizens to provide these dollars right now.

WHEREAS: Roughly 100 million US citizens are taxpayers, let's say.

WHEREAS: 700 billion dollars ÷ 100 million taxpayers = $7,000.

WHEREAS: The price per taxpayer to "get the country outta this mess" would seem to be approximately $7,000.

WHEREAS: President Bush says the Treasury absolutely needs the $700,000,000,000 right now.

WHEREAS: President Bush says there's no time to dawdle, or talk, or think.

WHEREAS: President Bush's urgency can mean only one thing: that he believes terrible consequences will befall the USA if the Treasury does not get its way.

WHEREAS: The terrible consequences that will befall the USA have not been clearly described.

WHEREAS: The vague specter of terrible consequences naturally gets us thinking about the worst terrible things that could actually happen.

WHEREAS: One of the worst terrible things that could actually happen to the USA is that it could suddenly die.

WHEREAS: The concept of "sudden USA death" sounds both absurd and funny, but is actually neither absurd nor funny if we're thinking creatively.

WHEREAS: It's a safe bet that at least some of the USA's friendly neighbor nations are thinking creatively.

WHEREAS: You and I take for granted that we cannot know — and will not ever know — exactly why the US Treasury needs all this money right now, and where all the money will go if they get it.

WHEREAS: You and I have not been reassured that the USA will not suddenly die if the Treasury does not get the money.

WHEREAS: We, the taxpaying citizens of the USA, tacitly demand that the USA doesn't suddenly die.

WHEREAS: I, personally, superdon't want the USA to suddenly die.

LET IT BE RESOLVED THAT: I, for one, will pay $7,000 to keep the USA alive if everybody else will. I'll go get what cash I have out of the bank right now, okay? It'll be about $2,000. And I'll put as much of the rest of the $5,000 as I can on my VISA.

Comments

[Publicado por: Anna]

Right on, brother. Thanks for the explanation. I'm in the same boat re: the $2K and $5K on my Apple credit card.

[Publicado por: BAILERT]

The bailout bill represents the most fascist centralization of power in America since the Patriot Act - and many would argue that it even trumps that.

[Publicado por: aulden timmer]

Nothing more than a logical progression, c.f. Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.

[Publicado por: fantasy weather league]

This blog post is about a page longer than the actual bill.

[Publicado por: Juan Venado]

Will the U.S. Treasury accept AmEx? If so, not only will I help the U.S. no die, I'll also get 35 JetBlue points and be 1/3 of the way to a free round trip flight. Sweet.

[Publicado por: aulden timmer]

I believe American Express is owned by Lehman Brothers, one of the bailout-ees, so Juan may want to reconsider the proposed sweetness.