From the guy who brought us Monopoly, Bailout Edition, comes the top “10 Better Ways to Use the Bailout Money”:

Watching the news lately has made me fear for my wallet. It seems that almost every day brings America an exciting new round of recession-edition Monopoly, in which Henry Paulson gives yet another mismanaged company a Get Out of Bankruptcy Free card, then argues that the player using the car gamepiece is “too big to fail.”

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There’s an excellent Chance that all this money is coming out of the national Community Chest
 

There are many who believe that the debt-laden avalanche of clusterfucks we call “bailouts” will not only fail to fix our current economic situation, but will actually make it worse, and make the coming recession longer. As someone who thinks that blindly handing trillions of dollars to companies that can’t make money is kind of like blindly handing trillions of Nintendo Wiis to quadriplegics, I happen to be one of those aforementioned “many.” So if propping up a bunch of fundamentally flawed companies will make things worse, what could we do with the money that would be more effective?

I’m so happy you asked….

Read the full top 10 list here.

 

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