anybody else get this gem of an email?

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I had a coworker send this to my team:

[FONT=Palatino Linotype]Patriotic retirement:[/FONT][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial][/COLOR][/FONT]
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[FONT=Palatino Linotype]There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force - Pay them $1 Million apiece severance with the following stipulations:[/FONT][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial][/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Palatino Linotype]1.They retire immediately. Forty million job openings - Unemployment is then fixed.[/FONT][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial][/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Palatino Linotype]2.They must buy NEW American cars. Forty million cars ordered - Auto Industry fixed.[/FONT][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial][/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Palatino Linotype]3.They either buy a house or pay off their mortgage - Housing Crisis fixed.[/FONT][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial][/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Palatino Linotype][B][I]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.[/FONT][/I][/B][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial]
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[COLOR=black][FONT=Arial]and for fun, I’ll let you tell me why this doesn’t work :roflpicard:
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I’m in. :gotme:

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hint, do the math.

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Ummmm, I was told there would be no math.

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I dunno guys, just making up $40 trillion sounds like a reasonable action, after all, we’ve spent like 3.5% of that on all our previous stimulus efforts.

I don’t see how this could possibly fail.

E: There’s a quote I read somewhere, and now cannot find, that went something like: “America will survive as a free state until her citizens realize that they can elect politicians to raid the national treasury.”

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you mean it doesn’t cost $40 million, lol… it’s almost some kind of a mind trick, it took me a moment also.

you win the cookie.

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How about, $10,000(bounty) for every 50 year old head you bring in?
I think it would be a much better investment.
I keed, I keed.

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You keed, but you’re right. Pay people to kill retirees? Nobody in nursing homes, spending inheritances, a bare minimum receiving social security… it would make fiscal sense for the government.

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What do you think the FEMA camps are for?:tinfoilhat:

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I got it too. From my 50+ year old Republican aunt… sigh

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:lol:

:roflpicard:

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Yeah when you change it from $1 million each to $1 apiece it becomes significantly less attractive :lol:

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Obama will LOVE this plan. Think of the tax revenue, taxing these bastards at top rates!!!
It would only “really” cost $20 trillion.
Bwaaaaahaaahhaah!

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this comes from the right, making a jab at obama… don’t be spinning.

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As long as we’re looking to Europe for most of our government ideas now, why not use the French system? Wait for a big heat wave, let the electrical grid fail, watch the old people die.

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Haha, lets not disregard the collateral damage incurred by hacking out the most experienced part of the workforce. A bunch of youngins running US industry, I love it!

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That’s an interesting idea…aren’t you on that age borderline :mamoru:

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Funny you should ask, I am officially old in about 10 hours. Thanks for reminding me. :cry:

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it’s gonna take a while to print all that money, better oil the money presses

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They are still cooling down from the last trillion