Newsflash: people are selfish and lazy. If you give them a handout just for breathing, you teach them that there's no point making an effort to earn a living.
What a cunning stunt to pull when fears of recession rear their ugly head due to unregulated hedge funds. Release a story about how a couple guys with a 'system' learned how to beat Vegas casinos, and now they can teach anyone else to use their 'system' to beat a semi-efficient free market stock exchange, too.