I would come out of retirement if I could get a contract with the feds to house immigrants/refugees awaiting deportation or asylum hearings for the going fat cat buddy rate of $775 per person per night.
I would pay each refugee $2000 a month whether they were old enough to work or not. Those that could work would renovate a house I would buy for them with the cash and gift to them. Lather, rinse and repeat until each family had their own house. Then I would identify houses owned by their new neighbors and pay them to fix up the neighbor's houses, too. New paint job, new roof, whatever was needed. That way their new neighbors would be glad they are there.
I would toss in money to cover "how to be an American" lesson and English language lessons.
And I still wouldn't be spending all the money because we're talking about $282,875 per person per year.
$100,000 house, including renovation.
24,000 wages.
6,000 lessons.
60,000 neighbor renovation supplies.
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$190,000 costs so far.
I've still got $92,875 per person per year to spend to accomplish something useful.
Oh, hell, let's pay them $4000 a month instead of $2000. Hey, they could afford soap and a bed to sleep in at this point.
Now we're at $214,000 with $68,875 still to spend.
So, the first five refugees would leave me with 5 * $68,875 or $344,375 in my pocket.
Let's see, I'll hire a foreman and pay them well, so we're looking at $200,000 still in my pocket. Hell, have a lottery and put money on the debts of the new neighbors or donate it to some charities.
Of course, that assumed 5 unrelated immigrants.
If it was one family of 5, that would save me $400,000 in house purchase costs!
And that family of 5 would have an income of 5 * 48,000 or $240,000 a year, even if one of them was a stay-at-home mom and the other four were quadruplet babes-in-arms.
So, if at the end of the year Uncle Sam decided to deport them they would have between $35,000 and $210,000 in their pocket plus a $100,000 house that could be sold. Whatever country they end up in (unless they are sent back to their old one and are killed by their country's government), they would have a heck of a nest egg to make a new start with. And it would take less than 2 weeks to sell the house because I would have more immigrants to take care of and a ready-to-go house would be perfect.
Doing that much good could get me out of retirement.