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.

4) Any money left over they would probably invest in the stock market -
Stock Market crisis fixed.

It can't get any easier than that! If more money is needed,
have all members of Congress and their
constituents pay their taxes...


(from an e-mail)

gillis, my new best friend!!!!!

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." -- Thomas Jefferson

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. - Carl Sagan

I believe that every right implies a responsibility, every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty. - John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

So ... people are freaked out over a $1.2 trillion deficit or whatever it is we're going to run this year (I'm not criticizing, I'm a bit freaked out by it too ... but I don't think there's a hell of a lot of choice short term) and your answer is an instant $40 trillion deficit?

Yeah, right.

They are just zeros. Remember Bush about numbers. The wingnuts appear to be mathematically challenged.

 (I'm not criticizing, I'm a bit freaked out by it too ...

LOL...of course you are.  You are under 50 (and you can't take a joke)

~~life isn't about how to survive the storm but how to dance in the rain~~

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Japanese Proverb

Sign me up!!

That would cost 40 trillion dollars or 12 times the

MessiAh's budget for fy 2010 ..

Who willl pay ?????

AB