The other day, just for kicks, I divided the rough amount of the current Recovery Act by the rough numbers for estimated unemployment (disregarding any argument of the accuracy or importance of these numbers) and figured that the current bill could actually pay over a $35,000 salary to each unemployed individual filed currently for the next year to do “something” — not sure what, but something productive and positive would be nice.

Is spending money that comes from the people that already have money issues really the way to fix anything, and does it really have to be done “right now?”  Things that take a long time to setup usually take a while to change, too.