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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> >The same kind of money we gave to the bankers.  Athough this time it might 
> actually do some good. 

William, in my own school of economics I would say that your solution suffers 
from the fallacy that views money as something real.  Other versions of this 
have been "if we didn't spend the money on the Iraq war" or "if we didn't 
give 
tax breaks to oil companies"  now it's "If we didn't give all that money to 
the banks but instead gave it to the workers, just look at all the things the 
workers could buy!!"

The money does not represent real goods and services.  If you gave everyone a 
share of money and they went out to spend it, everything they attempt to buy 
would just go up in price.

James