After the $700 billion financial bailout bill went down in a ball of flames yesterday and U.S. stocks took a mighty tumble, a friend forwarded me a humorous e-mail about the "We Deserve It Dividend," an alternative to the bailout bill. A Citizen Rain reader posted it on the site yesterday, for everyone's reading pleasure. It takes a little edge off seeing your 401k drop double digits.
Nice thought, but the math is incorrect. $85B divided by 200M is $425, not $425,000. FYI: $700B divided by 200M is $3,500