Cash handouts to consumers, while maybe politically good, can put cash in the wrong hands. Transferring cash resources to consumers is the wrong way to go. I lived through the times when the world saw the shonky entrepeneurs setting up even more shonky companies for their own gain. Where gullible investors, who now had the cash but no expertise in recognising the shonky deal for what it was, lost their money..

It has taken almost a generation to get the cash back to where it should be. In the hands of highly reputable businesses that know how to use it to stay in business and thus provide jobs.

Lets not make the same mistakes again, please.