An Email Sent to Me Today ... Supposed to be a Simple Fix for America's Economic Problems

Shazzam! All fixed! Bush was so stupid, he never thought of this. It only takes:

$40 mil To Fix The Economy
"This is from an article in the St. Petersburg Times Newspaper.

The Business Section asked readers for ideas on "How Would You Fix the Economy?"

Seems like 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, travel 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! If more money is needed, have all members of Congress and their constituents pay their taxes...
• If you think this would work, please forward to everyone you know.
• If not, please disregard. "

Is this a test? It sounds ok on the surface, with it's digs at the Wall Street thieves, but NO, I don't think this plan would work. I think I will disregard it!

First, if there are 40 Million people over fifty years old in the workforce, who like myself, are doing jobs that require some level of skill and knowledge of the field, I promise you that you are going to be hard pressed to find 400,000 people to fill their shoes, much less 40,000,000. Have you ever noticed that there are always job vacancies available, but often they are in specialized fields that not everyone can fill?

Second, If you have $40 million, that would only provide a $1 million check for 40 people. Or a $1.00 check for all 40 million people. I can't retire on a dollar.
1,000,000 x 40,000,000 = 40,000,000,000,000. That's 40 Trillion. The plan below would cost $40 Trillion. That's more than we can produce as a nation in ten years.

Hey..... Wait a minute! I think the Obama administration might go for this! Contrary facts and feasibility (or the lack thereof) do not seem to bother them too much. Be careful! Before you know it, there will be a big fight in the media among the Democrats and a few of the Republicans, over who came up with this plan first!

It's like what happened earlier this year. On April 15, this year ('09). A reporter-ette from MSNBC mocked the the Tea Party protesters for claiming that stimulus spending would cause tax increases. She kept quoting the president that no one who makes less than $250,000 a year would pay more taxes. She yelled at one who had a sign that said, "Don't Tax Away Our Freedoms" and she said, "What does raising taxes have to do with freedom, anyway?" She wasn't even smart enough to be embarrassed. (I was embarrassed for her.) "Hey Lady!" I was yelling at the tv set, "Did you ever hear of the American Revolutionary War ? ... Duh! " They thought taxes had something to do with freedom. Some of us still do.
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Phil Strickland

Liberty and the Healthcare Debate

I am a working class Christian Conservative, raised in a family of union construction workers and former Democrats. I love the concept, the dream, the idea, of liberty. I will never give in to trading liberty for security.
I still believe that the core value of the American experience is Liberty. The engine and the inspiration that has produced "America" as we know it, has been liberty. Take it away and you have "killed the goose that laid the golden egg."
It's a liberal/Democrat/MSM lie to say that people without health insurance don't or won't pay for their own health care. It’s true that some don’t. But people with integrity pay their bills. My wife and I had two babies without health insurance and paid for them in full, cash. It was a struggle, and it took time, but they are paid in full. If I am free, I have to provide for my family.
The nationalization of healthcare that sounds like such compassion will take away our freedom to choose and control our own lives in ways far beyond healthcare. The same people who fall for this scam are the ones who run up bills on their credit cards with no plans or twangs of conscience on how they will pay for what they spend. They feel they can have all they want with this magic little card. Shazzam!
This is the common denominator of everything for which the Obama administration stands.
I have seen and witnessed that Government spoils everything it controls i.e. public education and public housing - the worst of which are in the Democrat controlled areas of the country. You want to do for medicine what you did for education and housing for the poor?
Referring to the Constitution, Obama once said, "The US Constitution is almost completely negative toward the expansion of Governmental authority." And he was right! What it says is very, very limiting to liberals.
We have had a king. We didn't like it. We the people wrote/ratified the Constitution as a defense and a final line in the sand that no man or party is allowed to cross or manipulate. Every part of Federal Government swears an oath to protect, and honor and uphold the Constitution. That is the one greatest condition of their employment.
The signers of the Declaration of Independence pledged their lives, their fortunes and their SACRED HONOR. The problem is that many now have no honor. Their word is as empty as the beer can on the side of the road. Their lies are simply a means to achieve their own will, like a king, in spite of the fact that other people don't want what they are peddling.
I can live without forced, government-controlled healthcare. I can't live without liberty.
I want liberty or nothing.