Forum Post: If I gave you $1 billion right now, how would you go about solving this financial crisis?
Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 8, 2011, 5:38 p.m. EST by JPHOENIX
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One of the biggest roadblocks we face right now is that we are so quick to rip apart someone else's ideas for change, and focus too much on where everyone else is wrong. We would get much further if instead, we propose what we each think is right. And find the common ground that unites us.
What I want to know is:
If I gave you $1 billion right now, how would you go about solving this financial crisis?
I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR ANY CRITICISM ON THIS POST AT ALL.
Save your energy. We have more than enough tension and fighting going on. We don't need to do it amongst ourselves. Either explain your views, expand on someone else's ideas, or comment on another thread. Let's keep the focus specifically on solutions here - not on why someone else's idea isn't going to work and is the stupidest thing you've ever read. Keep that to yourself.
Be as creative as possible. Cheers!
A note about the working man who has been out of work for so long. Yes, he/she has gotten lazy. You would too if you didn't have a job. Sooner or later you get tired of it all, it exhausts all of your energy. I have been there several times. I know friends who have been there. And I tell you that people who have been out of work for a long time are the most powerful people that you can put to work. Why. Because they know what it is like to be without. They know what it is like to loose everything. Many even know what it is like to be homeless. They will work hard to be sure not to loose that job, to build up a savings just in case. Give them a chance because they are good people.
Well, if you take me seriously and truly want a turn around, truly want to see people working not in a year but in the next 90 days find a way to get that One Billion Dollars to not only give me the power but the resources to put over 2 Million people to work. I can tell you without question that there are over 2 Million jobs that can happen and it is a domino affect as I prefer to call it. Stand one million dominos in line and tip the first one and the rest will follow. On top of that I have ideas for putting even more people to work but so far no one has listened to me. Let me say one thing to get my point across. I am retired. A job is not important to me. I get a regular check deposited directly into my account every month. Then this economy actually makes my life easier because prices are so low, So, why am I so interested. Because I have a son and a daughter that work, I have friends that have jobs and I do not want to see any of them loose their jobs. Several times in my life I have been out of work for a year and I know what it is like. I have lost everything several times.
Get me that One Gillion Dollars and I guarantee you that I will put over 2 Million people to work within 90 days.
But, there is more. In a way some people are right about better educating people. This should have happened ages ago and it is not too late. Actually the time is right now. There are many non college business schools that teach people things like nurses assistants, legal assistants and so on that are good paying jobs. Areas where skills are needed. I would contribute from that One Billion Dollars millions to sending people to school so that they could get to work in less than 2 years. Colleges I would be involved in making magor changes to bring down costs. Even high schools I would push for getting rid of classes that have no more value than giving a teacher a salary.
President Obama is right. The wealthy needs to pay their share of taxes. The smart wealthy will always be wealthy and get wealthier. It is in creating more opportunities for the middle class to reach their dreams (realistic dreams) and the lower class to have a chance to become middle class that will make this country strong.
One thing todays wealthy (many of them) are not figuring out is that it takes the American worker to earn a decent income and spend it in America.
Contact me. Help me to find a way. And I promise you. I guarantee you. I will make it happen!
I love the enthusiasm so far guys. As crazy as it sounds, $1 billion is really not a lot of money to solve all of the issues we have at hand right now unless we think very, very far outside the box. But I believe it is possible. Keep the ideas flowing.
I would organize a Legal TEAM. That Legal TEAM would spend night and day identifying the white-collar criminals in the Financial Sector and in the Political Arena, on Wall Street and in Washington D.C., and then go about PROSECUTING each and every one of them for TREASON-- for conspiring to bring about the demise of the United States of America by orchestrating the collapse of its Infrastructure and Financial stability.
oops that was policy not police!
The best way to fix the current situation is massive schooling of the American people about how banking and monetary police work in America.
I would organize a Legal TEAM. That Legal TEAM would spend night and day identifying the white-collar criminals in the Financial Sector and in the Political Arena, on Wall Street and in Washington D.C., and then go about PROSECUTING each and every one of them for TREASON-- for conspiring to bring about the demise of the United States of America by orchestrating the collapse of its Infrastructure and Financial stability.
i would burn it, because most likely you would be giving me Federal reserve notes. A note is a debt instrument, evidence of debt, so by burning 1 billion Notes means 1 billion less of debt. Henry Ford once said " It is well enough that the people of this nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning"... Well Henry, tomorrow morning has arrived Because the American people now know how the banking and monetary systems work in this country and I am one of them. I know where the wealth of the American people is hidden!
I need a trillion and then we can talk. Or at least 700 million. I would directly payoff foreclosures. Replace them mortgages with vouchers. At least I have people in homes at that point.
The reason why I say $1 billion, not $1 trillion, is because there are some people who actually do have more than $1 billion who support this cause. If we come up with a good enough plan - who knows, maybe they just might implement some of our ideas!
Damn! That was my best Dr. Evil.