How Not To Save Detroit

On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:15:41 -0700, cavedweller wrote:

> On Jun 7, 4:39Â*pm, "MG" > wrote:
>> "Hachiroku ãƒ�ãƒ�ãƒ*ク" > wrote in message
>>
>> news >>
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>> > On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:15:58 -0400, Frog Breeches wrote:
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>> >> C. E. White wrote:
>> >>> Would be really funny except it is a little too close to the truth:
>>
>> >>>http://www.minyanville.com/audiovideo/703/1/23
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>> >>> Ed
>>
>> >> They didn't bail out Detroit or American Industry or Americans.
>> >> They bailed out Wall Street and Global Speculators and Banking.
>> >> They should have bailed out the victims and let them(us)rescue the firms
>> >> deserving bailing out with our spending.
>> >> The result we have is that there is endless supply, of proposed and
>> >> already implemented tax increases, fees, revenue enhancement, lost jobs,
>> >> manufacturing base, and a devaluing currency.
>> >> That's all upside down and they keep talking about preserving and
>> >> improving it.
>>
>> > Someone (in the Toyota group) suggested a payment of $1M to every American
>> > over 50, with certain stipulations:
>> > You had to 'retire'.
>> > You had to pay off any mortgages.
>> > You had to buy a new American car.
>>
>> > I would suggest $2M...
>>
>> > I'd buy TWO American cars.
>> > I'd sell my house for less than market value and build a brand new one.
>> > I'd 'retire' but still keep some kind of job that no one else would want
>> > (like the one I have...It's not full time)
>>
>> > That would have stimulated the economy a hell of a lot better than what
>> > Barry did, AND cost exactly One Fu@k of a lot less.
>>
>> That one's been kicking around for awhile. Â*Do the math:
>>
>> How many Americans over 50? Â*The number I keep seeing is 40 million.
>> Multiply that by 1,000,000 and you get 40 trillion. Â*Where does that come
>> from?
>
> He's probably like my friend who proposed it to me six months
> ago....an accountant


I hate it when someone does the math...

And, you don't have your friend coo...er, KEEP *your* books, do you?!

On Jun 8, 11:02 pm, Hachiroku $B%O%A%m%/(B > wrote:

>
> > He's probably like my friend who proposed it to me six months
> > ago....an accountant
>
> I hate it when someone does the math...
>
> And, you don't have your friend coo...er, KEEP *your* books, do you?!

No way.