Bailout per person analysis

Group Description	Population	% total
US population in 2007	301,000,000	100%
US adult population in 2007	221,000,000	74%
US taxpayers in 2007	138,000,000	46%
US taxpayers paying more than $0 in 2007	91,000,000	30%
US family households in 2007	76,000,000	25%
US households with children under 18 in 2007	33,500,000	12%

So, a $700,000,000,000 bailout would amount to the following amounts per person:

Every person in the US: $2,325 per person
All adults in the US: $3,482 per adult
All taxpayers in the US: $5072 per taxpayer
All non-zero taxpayers in the US: $7692 per paying taxpayer
All family households in the US: $9210 per family household
All households with minor children in the US: $20,900 per household with children

Census data

There have been a wide range of per-person numbers reported, including chain mails on Facebook sayig $350,000 !? per adult, and even mainstream media saying $15,000 per household.

The closest thing that results in the $15,000 number per household would be:

US white married family households in 2007: 53,000,000
All married white families in the US: $13,207 per white married family

Even this stretch comes up short, and the very notion of mainstream press reporting "$15,000 per household" where household means white, married, families with children is just deceptive. I wonder how they arrived at the $15,000 number.