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The Fix

Soapweed

Well-known member
Sounds like this would work.....From a senior citizen around 80 yrs. of age. 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
A ME RICAN 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!
 

Steve

Well-known member
P.S. If more money is
needed, have all members in Congress pay their
taxes..

if he would have all those in his ministration pay taxes it would help,.. along with all the federal employees who owe taxes..

oh ya,.. and ask Buffet and Micheal Mooron to pay their taxes as well...
 

Steve

Well-known member
Cowpuncher said:
Do the arithmetic for heavens sakes.

Where would the 40,000,000,000,000 come from? Must be a progressive idea.

CP

It is a slow day in the small D.C. town of Carterville , and streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody is living on credit.

A rich tourist visiting the area drives through town, stops at the motel, and lays a $100 bill on the desk saying he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs to pick one for the night.

As soon as he walks upstairs, the motel owner grabs the bill and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher.

The butcher takes the $100 and runs down the street to retire his debt to the pig farmer.

The pig farmer takes the $100 and heads off to pay his bill to his supplier, the Farmer's Co-op.

The guy at the Farmer's Co-op takes the $100 and runs to pay his debt to the local politician,

The politician takes the $100 and runs to pay his debt to the local prostitute, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer her "services" on credit.

The hooker rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill with the hotel owner.

The hotel proprietor then places the $100 back on the counter so the rich traveler will not suspect anything.

At that moment the traveler comes down the stairs, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, picks up the $100 bill and leaves town.

No one produced anything. No one earned anything... However, the whole town is now out of debt and now looks to the future with a lot more optimism.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the United States government is conducting business today.

so the answer is.. as the money travels.. the government gets a cut.. and the redistributes it.. over and over again until the arithmetic adds up..
 
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