:)

[cellboy]

from the St. Petersburg Times Newspaper on Sunday. The Business Section asked readers for ideas on "How Would You Fix the Economy?"
here is one entry....
Would this work? What do you think?

Dear Mr.President,
Patriotic retirement:
There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force;
pay them $1 million a piece severance with stipulations:
1) They leave their jobs. Forty million job openings - Unemployment fixed.
2) They buy NEW American cars. Forty million cars ordered - Auto Industry fixed.
3) They either buy a house or pay off their mortgage- Housing Crisis fixed.

All this and it's still cheaper than the "bailout".

Comments

[bigredpaul.livejournal.com]

This is a weirdly hot idea.

[panikmanik.livejournal.com]

oh.
my.
god.


it's 3 am so i'll use that as an excuse to not being able to rationalize this correctly

but I think you might be onto something

[urbear]

Er... that's 40 trillion dollars, about four times the bailout!

[cellboy.livejournal.com]

eep! So true. But it would be nice to be given a check for 1 mil, tax free, and retire, and travel :)

[urbear]

Win a Canadian lottery. They pay out in one lump sum, and it's not taxable!