Just received in email: Dear Mr. President:

[BigBearJohn]

Dear Mr. President,

Re: Patriotic retirement

There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force - Pay them
$1 million apiece severance with the following stipulations:

1. They retire immediately. 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.

It can't get any easier than that!

P.S. If more money is needed, have all members in Congress and their
constituents pay their taxes…

[monmouth]

1. Works for me and as they say in my group "Keep it simple, stupid".....n/t

[Deja Q]

2. Oops. $1 million times 40 million people... = $40 Trillion?

[DavidDvorkin]

3. Great idea, but the amount should increase with age

I'm 65, so I should get, um, $3 million.

[Fresh_Start]

4. No the younger people need more money to survive

on until they expire. So increase it for the younger retired workers.

[DavidDvorkin]

6. No! I need more because I need more!

I'll also spend more of it, thus boosting the economy.

[blogslut]

5. cool

I'm one year and six months aways from 50. If this were real legislation and it passed, I would be just in time for PROFIT!

[Ms. Toad]

7. Let's see - is an American car

one made in the US by US workers (regardless of the "citizenship" or the corporation) - or one made anywhere (and increasingly outside the US) by a corporation which is a "citizen" of the US. In other words, is it the residence of the workers that is important or the citizenship of the corporation?

I get so tired of the insistence that it unpatriotic to buy a car made by US workers, in the US from a company that happens to be a foreign corporation - but that as long as the corporation is American, wherever the car is made is irrelevant. (Although most people making that argument don't bother to say - or likely even think about - the "wherever the car is made" part of the issue.)

Yes - I drive a car from a foreign owned corporation, that was made in the US by US workers.