# anybody else get this gem of an email? **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [April 3, 2009, 9:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anybody-else-get-this-gem-of-an-email/65589 "2009-04-03T09:51:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![theblue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/theblue/32/5074_2.png) [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 9:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anybody-else-get-this-gem-of-an-email/65589/1 "2009-04-03T09:51:23Z")
I had a coworker send this to my team: > **_[FONT=Palatino Linotype]Patriotic retirement:_**[/FONT][COLOR=black][FONT=Arial][/COLOR][/FONT] > [COLOR=black][FONT=Arial] [/COLOR][/FONT] > **_[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] > [/COLOR][/FONT] [COLOR=black][FONT=Arial][/COLOR][/FONT] [COLOR=black][FONT=Arial]and for fun, I’ll let you tell me why this doesn’t work :roflpicard: [/COLOR][/FONT] ---
**Author:** ![Fry](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fry/32/7284_2.png) [@Fry](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fry)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 9:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anybody-else-get-this-gem-of-an-email/65589/2 "2009-04-03T09:52:58Z")
I’m in. :gotme: ---
**Author:** ![theblue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/theblue/32/5074_2.png) [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 9:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anybody-else-get-this-gem-of-an-email/65589/3 "2009-04-03T09:55:17Z")
hint, do the math. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 9:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anybody-else-get-this-gem-of-an-email/65589/4 "2009-04-03T09:55:21Z")
Ummmm, I was told there would be no math. ---
**Author:** ![Moruitelda](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/moruitelda/32/5348_2.png) [@Moruitelda](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Moruitelda)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 9:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anybody-else-get-this-gem-of-an-email/65589/5 "2009-04-03T09:57:45Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![theblue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/theblue/32/5074_2.png) [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 9:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anybody-else-get-this-gem-of-an-email/65589/6 "2009-04-03T09:58:36Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 10:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anybody-else-get-this-gem-of-an-email/65589/7 "2009-04-03T10:02:31Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Moruitelda](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/moruitelda/32/5348_2.png) [@Moruitelda](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Moruitelda)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 10:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anybody-else-get-this-gem-of-an-email/65589/8 "2009-04-03T10:04:15Z")
> [@Blue Eyed Devil](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 10:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anybody-else-get-this-gem-of-an-email/65589/9 "2009-04-03T10:06:41Z")
> [@Moruitelda](#): > > 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. What do you think the FEMA camps are for?:tinfoilhat: ---
**Author:** ![dmoffitt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/dmoffitt/32/7455_2.png) [@dmoffitt](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dmoffitt)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 10:08am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anybody-else-get-this-gem-of-an-email/65589/10 "2009-04-03T10:08:32Z")
I got it too. From my 50+ year old Republican aunt… _sigh_ ---
**Author:** ![Moruitelda](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/moruitelda/32/5348_2.png) [@Moruitelda](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Moruitelda)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 10:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anybody-else-get-this-gem-of-an-email/65589/11 "2009-04-03T10:09:06Z")
> [@Blue Eyed Devil](#): > > What do you think the FEMA camps are for?:tinfoilhat: :lol: > [@dmoffitt](#): > > I got it too. From my 50+ year old Republican aunt… _sigh_ :roflpicard: ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 10:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anybody-else-get-this-gem-of-an-email/65589/12 "2009-04-03T10:13:44Z")
Yeah when you change it from $1 million each to $1 apiece it becomes significantly less attractive :lol: ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 10:15am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anybody-else-get-this-gem-of-an-email/65589/13 "2009-04-03T10:15:50Z")
Obama will LOVE this plan. Think of the tax revenue, taxing these bastards at top rates!!! It would only “really” cost $20 trillion. Bwaaaaahaaahhaah! ---
**Author:** ![theblue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/theblue/32/5074_2.png) [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 10:18am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anybody-else-get-this-gem-of-an-email/65589/14 "2009-04-03T10:18:35Z")
> [@Blue Eyed Devil](#): > > Obama will LOVE this plan. Think of the tax revenue, taxing these bastards at top rates!!! > It would only “really” cost $20 trillion. > Bwaaaaahaaahhaah! this comes from the right, making a jab at obama… don’t be spinning. ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 10:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anybody-else-get-this-gem-of-an-email/65589/15 "2009-04-03T10:20:23Z")
> [@Blue Eyed Devil](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![MOBOOST4U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f4b2a3/32.png) [@MOBOOST4U](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MOBOOST4U)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 10:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anybody-else-get-this-gem-of-an-email/65589/16 "2009-04-03T10:21:23Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Eazy716](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/eazy716/32/7443_2.png) [@Eazy716](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Eazy716)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 11:04am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anybody-else-get-this-gem-of-an-email/65589/17 "2009-04-03T11:04:36Z")
> [@Blue Eyed Devil](#): > > 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. That’s an interesting idea…aren’t you on that age borderline :mamoru: ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 11:11am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anybody-else-get-this-gem-of-an-email/65589/18 "2009-04-03T11:11:06Z")
> [@Eazy716](#): > > That’s an interesting idea…aren’t you on that age borderline :mamoru: Funny you should ask, I am officially old in about 10 hours. Thanks for reminding me. 😢 ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 12:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anybody-else-get-this-gem-of-an-email/65589/19 "2009-04-03T12:24:28Z")
it’s gonna take a while to print all that money, better oil the money presses ---
**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2009, 12:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/anybody-else-get-this-gem-of-an-email/65589/20 "2009-04-03T12:47:11Z")
> [@boardjnky4](#): > > it’s gonna take a while to print all that money, better oil the money presses They are still cooling down from the last trillion