OK, so what do we do with the $700 Billion that apparently was just

[DAGDA56]

lying around...now that it isn't going to Wall Street?

[Eric J in MN]

1. Build factories in the US which make consumer products...

...which the world wants.

That would be much better for our economy.

[aquart]

5. Bring back our steel and tool and die industries.

Without which we cannot make a fucking thing.

[aquart]

2. We don't actually have any money. We're in debt.

[Myrina]

3. ... its just not going to be printed ...

... which means that hopefully inflation won't shoot thru the roof because of all the newly minted nearly worthless paper we'd have put into circulation.

[LiberalAndProud]

4. Jobs creation. Seems like a no-brainer to me. -(nt)

[rucky]

6. We could pay off some serious debt with that kind of cash.

Let's borrow it anyways.

[Indiana_Dem]

7. From what I understand, we didn't have it yet, we were going to borrow from China

until the taxpayers came through with their routine taxes.....We don't really have the money lying around. Now China is not going to give us any money until the bill was passed. Businesses won't get their credit to float their payrolls now.

[AngryAmish]

8. Build the biggest bong ever

hundreds of miles long

[AngryAmish]

10. In all seriousness, build roads, bridges, airports, etc.

[TBF]

9. It wasn't laying around - it would've been borrowed. Just.say.no.

[dbonds]

11. Well it wasn't just laying around, it would have had to be created.

We would have had to borrow from other countries (like China) then create the money from that capitol.

[Cronus Protagonist]

12. Build roads, bridges, sea walls, power stations, wind farms and provide free healthcare

Providing healthcare will be the most important of these.

[Kip Humphrey]

13. FYI: the $700B doesn't exist. The answer is we don't print it.

[whistle]

14. Actually Paulson already used $650 billion to bailout Wall Street cronies, oops