There are about 40 million people over 50 in the workplace. Pay them $1 million apiece severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:

1) They MUST retire. 40 million job openings....unemployment fixed!!!

2) They MUST buy a new AMERICAN car. 40 million cars ordered.....Auto Industry fixed!!!!

3) They MUST either buy a new house or pay off their mortgage......Housing crisis fixed!!!

It can't get any easier than that!!!!

A million times 40 million.  Is that 40,000,000,000,000?

Kevin_M wrote on Mar 11^th, 2011 at 12:26pm:

A million times 40 million.  Is that 40,000,000,000,000?

Kevin, if you're going to work in politics, you need to understand that numbers don't really mean anything! ;D A trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon those poor people at the mint are working triple shifts to keep up with the demand!

Joe

Make it 48 and older and I am in! ;D

Kevin_M wrote on Mar 11^th, 2011 at 12:26pm:

A million times 40 million.  Is that 40,000,000,000,000?

Kevin? I think that's ONLY 40 MILLION (40 million people times $1 million each?) But then I didn't take "government" math...  :-*

Should I have done it like this?

40 million $A million times.


;) 

Actually Barbara, 40 million people time $1.00 is 40 million.  40 trillion is correct.

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Sign me up.

I'll start my retirement tomorrow and you can send my check to Vegas.

Of course 40 trillion is only worth 40 million.

Bob P wrote on Mar 14^th, 2011 at 7:33am:

Of course 40 trillion is only worth 40 million.

You mean AFTER taxes?? ;D

thanks for the "correction" Bob...

I'm a GIRL... we still think 9" is a foot... :)

                      Clunker Math 

Think of it this  way:  A clunker that travels 12,000 miles a year at 15 mpg uses 800  gallons of gas a year.  A vehicle that travels 12,000 miles a year at 25 mpg uses 480 gallons a year. So, The average Cash for Clunkers  transaction will reduce US gasoline consumption by 320 gallons per year.  They claim 700,000 vehicles so that's 224 million gallons saved per year. That equates to a bit over 5 million barrels of oil. 5 million barrels is about 5 hours worth of US consumption. More importantly, 5 million barrels of oil at $70 per barrel costs about $350 million dollars So, the government paid $3 billion of our tax dollars to save $350 million.   

We spent $8.57 for every dollar we saved.

I'm pretty sure they will do a great job with our retirement though.



    

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I'm a GIRL... we still think 9" is a foot...

You're the kind of girlfrend that's good for a guy's ego!

Barb, I put in a dollar sign ($) my second post.  I KNEW you'd understand that.   ;)