I would love to see this calculated quantitatively. I've heard that the bailout amounts to $50,000 per worker. That sounds pretty good... However, if the bai

I would love to see this calculated quantitatively. I've heard that the bailout amounts to $50,000 per worker. That sounds pretty good... However, if the bailout is able to keep everyone in $70,000 other jobs for a year, that might be a better deal, even if it just means postponing the inevitable. I recognize that this is very complex, one should account for e.g. if the economy will be recovered in a year, and more able to take the hit of these industries going under, how much more value the workers might produce in new jobs, etc. It's beyond me to calculate, but I would love to see an analysis that presupposes that this is straightforward charity for those workers, and how to get the best bang for our redistributive buck.