Quest for Knowledge. Part one:

So on my quest, i go looking for things that i feel have importance to the masses and i read/learn about them and convey them to you guys. This is my first one.

Currently we are in the worst recession within the last 25-35 years. Pending on what country you look at. What this means is people are losing jobs, and there are no more jobs for them to get, so they cant get money to keep a roof over their heads, provide for their family's, nothing. And yet the cost of living is still rising. How does that make sense? Everything is going higher yet people that are making money, are making roughly the same, and furthermore people are just not making money at all. I don't get the concept of "Hey, they can't afford some of our things now, so lets jack up the prices some, that outta show them!". Although for companies to maintain the people they have, they have to make the prices higher because they are getting fewer sells because of the lack of people working. Its a stupid cycle. But the people i don't get are the people that are able to maintain profit and still allow themselves to keep their workers, yet they still jack up the prices. For example, gas/oil, its around $40 an barrel, which is really good, I'm not complaining, i don't mind paying 90cents a liter, its better than 1.20 or 1.30. Look at the math though. Say 1 million people go to a pump in one day, and everyone buys $20. That's 20 million dollars, granted its not in their pocket, but I'm sure at least 1/4 of it, if not 1/3 of it is, that's still a crap load of money. Think about it, what would you do with 5 million dollars. The recession is currently at an all time low for the month of January, currently there is no way to improve it. We just kinda got to stick it out. Mind you the recession wont hit most of the people reading this, but its always something to be aware of because you never know.

And my question stands, 5 million, what would you do with it?

If I write it, they will come

Jay.