The Business Section Editor of the St. Petersburg Times asked readers
for their ideas on how they would fix the economy. Here’s the winner.
Patriotic retirement
them $ 3 million apiece severance with the following stipulations:
1) They leave their jobs. Forty million job openings –
Unemployment fixed.
2) They all buy NEW North American cars. Forty million cars ordered –
Auto Industry fixed.
3) They either buy a house or pay off their mortgage – Housing Crisis fixed
Total amount committed -$120 billion —
Considerably less than the “stimulus package”.
