Now that it appears our esteemed pols have passed their 'economic stimulus' bill you kind of have to wonder why no one came up with this simple idea to stimulate the economy by cutting out the 'middle man'.
Simply take the total of the stimulus package (some where around $782B), divide that by the US population (approx. 360M, but only legal residents of course), then cut every man, woman, and child a check for their share.
You'd have to think that would stimulate the economy a whole lot faster than giving it to the Wall Street, Banking, Big Auto, and Labor Union execs to divvy up, wouldn't you? Oh, but wait, I forgot in my scenario the pols wouldn't be lining the pockets of their primary campaign contributors....