I have always said that there is a difference between good, sound ideas and ideas that sound good.
This came to me via email. My apologies if this has been published somewhere, as I do not know where it came from.

Dear Mr. President,
Patriotic retirement:
There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force – Pay them $1 million apiece severance with the following stipulations:
1) They leave their jobs. Forty million job openings – Unemployment fixed.
2) They buy NEW American cars. Forty million cars ordered – Auto Industry fixed.
3) They either buy a house/pay off their mortgage – Housing Crisis fixed.
It can’t get any easier than that!
PS If more money is needed, have all members in Congress and their constituents pay their taxes!

Did you spot the hole in this argument? No? Think it sounds good, right?
Well, you are talking about giving 40,000,000 people $1,000,000 each. Do your math. That would work out to $40 Million Million dollars, or $40,000,000,000,000. That’s just a little more than we can spend, considering we already have a $10 Trillion debt.
Remember this the next time someone talks about spending someone elses money.