Someone posted this on Facebook:

Here's an idea I heard from a friend and like. It may sound crazy but the math does work on this one and everyone wins.
Call it the "Patriotic Retirement Plan"

Instead of giving billions of dollars to companies and special interest groups use the following plan.
There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force. Pay them $1 million a piece 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 or Truck. 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!

Please poke holes in it. I thought about it for a while. It's like getting the proceeds from an insurance policy before you die. I was thinking that those people have to live a real long time before they kick the bucket, and on what? If they get a mill tax free (yeah, right) and pay off their house and buy a car, what does that leave them to live on? What does it leave them with for health insurance when the majority of them start needing it? Can they take another job? What about social security and medicare? Do these things start immediately?

There has to be more holes than the ones I can immediately think of.