BEST THING I HAVE HEARD YET…..From a senior citizen around 80 yrs. of age, back in 2012.
We aren’t useless yet.
The
Fix
There recently was an article in the St. Petersburg , Fl. Times. The Business Section asked readers for ideas on:
“How Would You Fix the Economy?” I think this guy nailed it!
Dear Mr. President,
Please find below my suggestion for fixing America ‘s economy. Instead of giving billions of dollars to companies that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan.
You can call it the “Patriotic Retirement Plan”:
There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force. Pay them $1 million apiece severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:
1) They MUST retire. Forty million job openings – Unemployment fixed.
2) They MUST buy a new AMERICAN Car. Forty million cars ordered – Auto Industry fixed.
3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage – Housing Crisis fixed.
It can’t get any easier than that!!
P.S. If more money is needed, have all members in Congress pay their taxes..
Mr. President, while you’re at it, make Congress retire on Social Security and Medicare. I’ll bet both programs would be fixed pronto!
If you think this would work, please forward to everyone you know.
If not, please disregard.
Where do we find the $40 trillion it would take? Inflation would skyrocket, chew up most of the benefits and impoverish those who didn’t get the money.
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I’m not so certain it would be anymore inflationary than handing $26 trillion to the one percent.
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I love it! Old folks are often full of wisdom and good ole common sense!
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That is 40 trillion dollars!!
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if it was an oil war they’d fund it,Van Conrad
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Hmm…If it were only 40 people who each received 1 million, that would be “40 million” dollars…so, 40 million people, times 1 million..is what? That is 40 TRILLION dollars…a lot of dough! Where will the funding for 40 trillion come from? Just saying 😉😎
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That $40 trillion could come from the same source that gave twelve banks $26 trillion during the last economic downturn; see https://johnhively.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/breakdown-of-the-26-trillion-the-federal-reserve-handed-out-to-save-rich-incompetent-investors-but-who-purchase-political-power/. I should also point out the Fed reportedly lost $9 trillion, but that type of cash is visible from space, so they likely gave that dough to the rich folks too; see https://johnhively.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/the-federal-reserve-lost-9-trillion-what-liars-they-gave-that-money-away/. So if the Fed can print up a known total of $35 trillion for a few rich folks, but they can’t come up with $40 trillion for the rest of us? Something is wrong with that picture.
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