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 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!
If more money is needed, have all members of Congress and their constituents pay their taxes... If you think this would work, please write your congressman.
(Author unknown)
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Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Thursday, January 1, 2009
It's Only A Number
Reflecting on 2008, I thought that was the strangest year ever in my life. Think about it, the price of gas dropped by over 50% in just a few months. Retirement and investment accounts drop significantly. In summary, the bubble burst.
We listened to the presidential candidates debate how they would fix the economy and watched in amazement as our government leadership determined that the solution was to provide over $700,000,000,000 to fix the the bubble. I got to thinking about that number. Just how big is 700 billion?
So, I did a little research. I found an interesting analogy on the Internet that said a one gallon milk jug would contain about 1 billion grains of sand. OK now I can wrap my mind around the size of "1 billion". So the government decided to provide 700 milk jugs. Now that is a lot of milk jugs. When I was in the store the other day, I decided to count the number of one gallon milk jugs on the milk rack. On one shelf, I found 16 milk jugs lined up 4 across and 4 deep so that shelf contains the equivalent of $16,000,000,000. There were 5 shelves on the rack or the equivalent of $80,000,000,000. It would take 9 racks like that to hold 720 milk jugs. That is a lot of milk.
As I drove past Academy, the other day, I noticed they had BBQ grills made from oil drum containers. A barrel of oil holds 55 gallons. It would take 13 barrels to hold $700,000,000,000. Now I am getting somewhere. So there, I've settled it in my mind. I can visualize 13 oil barrels.
Anyone want to help me fill those oil barrels with sand now? I have a spare shovel.
We listened to the presidential candidates debate how they would fix the economy and watched in amazement as our government leadership determined that the solution was to provide over $700,000,000,000 to fix the the bubble. I got to thinking about that number. Just how big is 700 billion?
So, I did a little research. I found an interesting analogy on the Internet that said a one gallon milk jug would contain about 1 billion grains of sand. OK now I can wrap my mind around the size of "1 billion". So the government decided to provide 700 milk jugs. Now that is a lot of milk jugs. When I was in the store the other day, I decided to count the number of one gallon milk jugs on the milk rack. On one shelf, I found 16 milk jugs lined up 4 across and 4 deep so that shelf contains the equivalent of $16,000,000,000. There were 5 shelves on the rack or the equivalent of $80,000,000,000. It would take 9 racks like that to hold 720 milk jugs. That is a lot of milk.
As I drove past Academy, the other day, I noticed they had BBQ grills made from oil drum containers. A barrel of oil holds 55 gallons. It would take 13 barrels to hold $700,000,000,000. Now I am getting somewhere. So there, I've settled it in my mind. I can visualize 13 oil barrels.Anyone want to help me fill those oil barrels with sand now? I have a spare shovel.
Thursday, December 25, 2008
The Original Christmas Carol
Christmas PastIn the beginning was God. Gen 1:1 says the earth was empty and God gave it life. This was the first gift. God breathe His soul into His creation. Thus the earth was full of God’s character. The Old Testament is an account of how man used and misused this special gift. This was the Christmas past
Christmas Present
The birth of Christ represents God’s second gift. He gave the earth and mankind, His Son Jesus so man could understand God’s character. When Simeon saw the Christ child, he recognized the second gift God provided mankind. He praised God and offered a blessing to Joseph and Mary. (Luke 2:22-35)
During His three years of public ministry, Jesus showed the world the greatest gift possible; the gift of life. John 10:10. This is Christmas Present.
Christmas Future
The Holy Spirit gave John a look into the future (Revelation 21). John describes the final gift from God – A new heaven and a new earth for the old has passed away – A New Jerusalem full of God’s character. God now dwells with his people and they dwell with Him. This is the Christmas Future.
The Christmas story is now complete.
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