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 rtirement 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...
I hope this isn't considered political.

I like it! It would have been a lot cheaper than the zillion dollars we gave away to the same people who put us into this jam!

I like it also - since I am over 50 and still working (not sure how long - work for the housing industry) - but I think if I were 49 and this happened - I would really be *******