Thought of the week???

[Paulus]

Mr Brown, our erstwhile Prime Minister has come up with a package, in "partnership" with the energy companies to give the people of this country £910 million in grants and aid to help those who may suffer hardship this winter because of the huge hike in fuel prices. All very well and good.

My thought was, as there are 60 odd million people in this country, would it not be cheaper to give everyone £1 million each, saving £850million at a stroke

I know this is a flippant thought, and it well may have severe consequences on the economy as thousands of people would chuck their jobs in immediately and inflation would probably rocket through the roof, but maybe a scaled down version where the population was given a couple of thousand pounds to help with the rise in costs would save the government and the energy companies a hugh amount of money and would give those who need the money a welcome bonus.

I know their are those of you on the forum who know about such matters, so, is my thought so silly?

 

[Paulus]

£910m in grants works out at £15 pounds each for a population of 60m.

Only if you divide 910 by 60. my point is if you have a pot with £910 mil. in it, and you give away £60 mil, you have saved £850 Mil. Surely simple maths?

 

[Speicher]

Yes, but if you give away 60,000,000 pounds to 60,000,000 people, they only get a pound each.

 

[Speicher]

You would need 60,000,000,000 to be able to give 60,000,000 people a thousand each.

 

[fossyant]

Paulus - get back to school......

 

[Paulus]

OK. I have been out for a long ride and had a few beers afterwards, I can see the stupidity of my argument. I'll go and lay down for a while and think of something better

 

[zimzum42]

I'm hoping paulus is going to stick to his guns on this one and carry on claiming he's right

I wish he was my bank manager

 

[Speicher]

I am so glad that you said you had a few beers. You don't do any "driving" near Worcester do you?

 

[zimzum42]

damn, too late

 

[Blue]

My thought was, as there are 60 odd million people in this country, would it not be cheaper to give everyone £1 million each, saving £850million at a stroke

As a casual test relating to the 'exams are getting easier' debate, tell us all what grade you got in GCSE Maths and when you sat the exam

 

[cisamcgu]

My thought was, as there are 60 odd million people in this country, would it not be cheaper to give everyone £1 million each, saving £850million at a stroke

Isn't that £60,000,000,000,000 ?? A bit more than the UK GDP I would have thought - I'm not sure I understand, am I being daft ??


Andrew

 

[Blue]

Isn't that £60,000,000,000,000 ?? A bit more than the UK GDP I would have thought - I'm not sure I understand, am I being daft ??


Andrew

I bet you got an A*

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I'm hoping paulus is going to stick to his guns on this one and carry on claiming he's right

If this thread had been started by Bonj that's exactly what would have happened. We'd be up to about thirty pages by now and it would have been moved to Politics and Life.

 

[Speicher]

I think I got a grade A in 1794, um 1974

 

[papercorn2000]

Wouldn't it be a lot wiser to take the £910M and give it to me?


That's it really, just give it to me. I'd be quite generous with cakes and stuff...