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This showed up in an email just the other day. This would fix the current financial situation:

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You’ve probably seen this at least once, but the idea is still sound.

The Fix

There recently was an article in the St. Petersburg Fl. Times.. The Business Section asked readers for ideas on: “How Would You Fix the Economy?”

I think this guy nailed it! _____

Dear Mr. President ,

Please find below my suggestion for fixingAmerica ’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.

It can’t get any easier than that!!

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

Mr. President, while you’re at it, make Congress retire on Social Security and Medicare. I’ll bet both programs would be fixed pronto!

If you think this would work, please forward to everyone you know.

Sounds good to me..

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Forty million people at one million dollars each = $40 Trillion.

Add $40 Trillion to what our broke Uncle already doesn’t have.

Yeah, that’ll fix everything! I’m almost surprised the White House hasn’t enthusiastically jumped on that one. And if you believe that, I have some stunning ocean front property here in North Dakota. Drop me an email if you’re interested.

Sci-fi, I love it. The original Star Trek, Stargate SG-1 and Fringe among others are fun and intriguing science fiction. At the same time I wonder how much is fiction and how much fact. My brother would like to believe at least some TV science fiction is neither fiction nor futuristic. Y’know, I gotta half heartedly go with him on this.

Anyone remember the 1963 series (am I dating myself now) “Burke’s Law”? It starred Gene Barry (RIP) as Burke and he had a telephone in his chauffeur-driven Rolls. Seriously, did I ever expect I wouldn’t have a land line but still have a phone? Go a step further: the vehicles we drive have greater computing power than landed Americans on the moon. Let’s not talk about the computers in our house, I personally use three older laptops and each with far greater capabilities than what once were considered high powered computers. Hmmm! Anyway you get the idea.

Fringe has captured my fancy and a few evenings back we started watching episodes from the first season. One of the early episodes finds Nina Sharp offering agent Olivia Dunham a position with Massive Dynamic. Nina explains (only paraphrasing) Massive Dynamic possesses untold technologies, the ability to deploy private military forces anywhere needed and resources to influence who is or is not in power anywhere on earth. Of course Nina was far more eloquent or possibly disconcertingly ominous.

Much as I believe government(s) should not control business the reciprocal is business should not control government(s). To keep this from becoming a political statement I’ll leave it at that.

Anyway over the next day or so Nina’s little discourse kept me wondering how much is fiction. What US company could the fictional Massive Dynamic be based upon? What all is General Electric involved with?

Am I serious? Nope, but…