Dear Mr Darling…
May 15, 2009 by iainchalmers
I was sent this email today. It’s the best solution to the recession I’ve seen…
Dear Mr. Darling,
Please find below some suggestions for fixing Britain’s economy. Instead of giving billions of pounds to banks 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 20 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. Twenty million job openings – Unemployment fixed.
2) They MUST buy a new British CAR. Twenty million cars ordered – Auto Industry fixed.
3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage – Housing Crisis fixed.
4) They must send their kids to school / college /university – Crime rate fixed
5) Buy £50 of alcohol / tobacco a week there’s your money back in duty /tax etc
It can’t get any easier than that!
P.S. If more money is needed, have all members of parliament pay back their falsely claimed expenses and second home allowances
Edward de Bono wrote a book called Simplicity and it seems to me that this falls into that category of a potentially simple idea actually having great merit. I am not an economist but there seems to be a lot of logic here which is much more sensible than giving away £12.5 bilion on a 2.5% VAT cut!!