Letter to Enda Kenny?

WilliamCutting

Just wondering if anyone has or can direct me to a letter that was being circulated by email about a month ago maybe?

The general gist was that rather than giving bondholders money Enda should offer people over 50 1 million to retire, thus creating job opportunities to get the jobs market going. there was conditions on the million like buying a new car or something.

Anyway I was meant to read it but being the gob****e I am I scanned over and tried to mark it as unread and deleted it. Only realising that now as its not in any folders in my email.

Anyone know of or remember it?

Thanks.

Red Right Hand

Try these people

http://bit.ly/taSo7H

WilliamCutting

Red Right Hand wrote: »

Try these people

http://bit.ly/taSo7H

As whitty as that is I have already tried 'those people'. In several permutations and combinations of what I remembered of the email. Hence why I'm here.

Godge

Didn't see it but it sounds a bit unfair. Why should people over 50 get a million euro just like that while the rest of us just trundle on.

Kristopherus

WilliamCutting wrote: »

Just wondering if anyone has or can direct me to a letter that was being circulated by email about a month ago maybe?

The general gist was that rather than giving bondholders money Enda should offer people over 50 1 million to retire, thus creating job opportunities to get the jobs market going. there was conditions on the million like buying a new car or something.

Anyway I was meant to read it but being the gob****e I am I scanned over and tried to mark it as unread and deleted it. Only realising that now as its not in any folders in my email.

Anyone know of or remember it?

Thanks.

Here you are:

Dear Mr Kenny

Please find below my suggestion for fixing the Irish 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 400 thousand people over 50 in the work force.

Pay them 1 million Euro each severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:
1) They MUST retire. 400 thousand job openings - unemployment fixed
2) They MUST buy a new car. 400 thousand cars ordered - Car 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) They MUST buy €100 WORTH of alcohol/tobacco a week ....and 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 the Dail pay back their falsely claimed expenses and second home allowances


Also; Let's put the pensioners in jail and the criminals in a nursing home. This way the pensioners would have access to showers, hobbies and walks. They'd receive unlimited free prescriptions, dental and medical treatment, wheel chairs etc and they'd receive money instead of paying it out. They would have constant video monitoring, so they could be helped instantly, if they fell, or needed assistance. Bedding would be washed twice a week, and all clothing would be ironed and returned to them. A guard would check on them every 20 minutes and bring their meals and snacks to their cell. They would have family visits in a suite built for that purpose. They would have access to a library, weight room, spiritual counselling, pool and education. Simple clothing, shoes, slippers, PJ's and legal aid would be free, on request. Private, secure rooms for all, with an exercise outdoor yard, with gardens. Each senior could have a PC a TV radio and daily phone calls. There would be a board of directors to hear complaints, and the guards would have a code of conduct that would be strictly adhered to. The criminals would get cold food, be left all alone and unsupervised... Lights off at 8pm, and showers once a week. Live in a tiny room and pay €600 per week and have no hope of ever getting out.

Yours.

Sand

Right, lets look at Keynsian solutions in a tiny open economy:

Pay them 1 million Euro each severance for early retirement with the following stipulations:
1) They MUST retire. 400 thousand job openings - unemployment fixed

:rolleyes: - Look, for the record, Im 31 so Im not in the 50+ bracket. But a plan that proposes to throw out the experience and know how of every worker over the age of 49 and which presumes the wider economy wont suffer? Really? Really?

2) They MUST buy a new car. 400 thousand cars ordered - Car Industry fixed

Yeah. The German car industry.

3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage - Housing Crisis fixed

Do they have to be Irish houses? No? Thats the Spanish housing crisis fixed.

4) They MUST send their kids to school/college/university - Crime rate fixed

A kids path into either habitual criminality or into higher education is determined long before the age of 18 in most cases. Yeah, theres a few inspirational "Sociopathic drug dealer turned Greenpeace social worker" stories, but theyre inspirational because theyre few.

5) They MUST buy €100 WORTH of alcohol/tobacco a week ....and there's your money back in duty/tax etc

Again, does it have to be Irish alcohol/tobacco? Paying X out and getting a % of X back is not a plan that would pass muster with the underpants gnomes.

Basically the letter looks like some dumb copy and paste exercise that was stolen from some US or UK interest group, a few names changed and pushed out as a pretence at original thought.

WilliamCutting

Thanks Kristopher, you made my life easier now.

Sand I agree its useless in truth but I need it for an angle I'm taking on a college assignment.

Yes, it is as fun as it sounds.

Dannyboy83

Another version here;
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=72784105&postcount=6