On Friday, Washington legislators agreed on a compromise which for now anyway, diverted a shutdown of the government. However they continue to find it unnecessary to get to the core of our fiscal issues. Republicans are still whining about spending, and meanwhile you have Democrats who want planned parenthood. Still no effective talks about reducing government and cutting spending in the public sector.
If that doesn't sound surprising to anyone, you may be shocked to realize that since the financial collapse of 2008, there have been little cuts on the local, state and federal government levels. Today more than 22 million Americans across the country are employees of the government. In other words, more people are working in public sector jobs with a largely inflated pension fund that tax payers are on the hook for, than people working in farming, manufacturing, forestry or technology industries combined.
People really are depending on the government.
And despite the fact that our yearly deficit is $1.4 trillion and our national debt is likely to exceed $15 trillion in just a few months, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is pleading with Congress to raise the debt ceiling limit, so we can borrow more money from China, without any consideration at all, to simply cut back the bloated bureaucracy of government.
Amid our financial crisis, the government continues to keep hiring. Yesterday, Fox Business released the most recent job openings in the federal government:
- $115,000 a year, to maintain a Facebook page
- $150,000 to $180,000 a year for equal opportunity compliance officers
- $100,000 to $150,000 for speechwriters
How embarrassing when millions of private sector jobs have vanished, yet spending money on positions like this are deemed necessary.
Another fact often overlooked is when the federal government comes out with its ridiculous numbers on the unemployment rate going down, most of the jobs being filled are usually in the public sector. Secondly, they tend to only count people receiving unemployment benefits after they had been laid off, as being legitimately unemployed. When people stop receiving the benefits, I guess the idiocies in the state and federal governments believe that those people somehow went back to work?
President Obama continues to spew this nonsense about becoming fiscally responsible.
When you're the President, or a Senator or a Congressman, and you're not smart enough to write your own damn speech and you end up paying a six figure salary to someone just to write it for you... maybe that is an indicator you should just shut the hell up.
Would that help cut cost on the federal level?
Showing posts with label government shutdown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label government shutdown. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Friday, April 8, 2011
A Government Slowdown, not Shutdown
So by midnight, our Federal Government will likely 'shutdown'.
Sounds like a typical scare tactic. In fact, the Federal Government will not necessarily shutdown, people will still go about they're daily lives as if nothing even happened. However, places such as National Parks and Museums will close, the IRS will be unable to process tax returns, the EPA won't be reviewing environmental impact studies and most government websites will be offline.
But the really good news, Congress won't be able to pass any laws.
That should actually make liberals very happy, when you consider that they spew this "we want freedom" philosophy all the time, and should also make conservatives happy as well, since they don't want big government.
And what is President Obama doing about this? Fund raising for his 2012 re-election...
True however, that President Obama apparently met with House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to discuss cuts in spending and as usual, neither one of these stupid political parties can find common ground. And it is apparent that neither party really has the consideration of the will for the American people.
Liberal Democrats want higher taxes for wealthy Americans, failing to take into consideration that once the super rich receive such tax increases, they'll move elsewhere... by the way, hypocrisy from the wealthy in Hollywood who are liberal, but don't want to participate at all in any form of sacrifice. Even if that was the case to impose a higher tax on every single millionaire or billionaire in this country, it would still accumulate to less than the yearly deficit of over $1 trillion and the national debt, which is likely to pass $15 trillion by the end of September.
As it stands right now, the main issue holding up the passage of a budget, is the fact that Senator Reid is whining about planned parenthood. Notice that liberals never seem to want to address abortion and have no problem with it, but they're against the death penalty? Apparently Senator Reid sincerely believes tax payers should pay into a program that supports planned parenthood for women, even though the country is fundamentally broke and can't afford the expense of other nationalized programs. So if tax payers pay for contraception to stop women from having babies, Senator Reid will be satisfied and a budget can be passed.
Sounds like Senator Reid is getting inspiration from Chairman Mao.
Conservative Republicans meanwhile want spending cuts, including military funding. In any case, our armed forces overseas should still receive their paychecks, which liberals again won't give any consideration to. It seems pretty clear that the spending is the actual problem in Washington D.C. Keep paying those ridiculous pensions to 22 million federal workers, and keep those borders open so we can pay billions of dollars each year on illegal immigration.
And finally, to be frank, the Democratic lawmakers both in the House and Senate, have nobody else to blame except themselves on this issue. They had last September, before the election, when they still controlled both houses in Congress to pass a budget. They failed to do so.
So, in my opinion, bring a government shutdown. It will not necessarily shutdown, but rather just slow down the process. And with the exception of tax payers still on the hook either way, I'd like to see this as a learning lesson for these dumb politicians in Washington. Maybe they can see the kinds of problems they've created for years.
Sounds like a typical scare tactic. In fact, the Federal Government will not necessarily shutdown, people will still go about they're daily lives as if nothing even happened. However, places such as National Parks and Museums will close, the IRS will be unable to process tax returns, the EPA won't be reviewing environmental impact studies and most government websites will be offline.
But the really good news, Congress won't be able to pass any laws.
That should actually make liberals very happy, when you consider that they spew this "we want freedom" philosophy all the time, and should also make conservatives happy as well, since they don't want big government.
And what is President Obama doing about this? Fund raising for his 2012 re-election...
True however, that President Obama apparently met with House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to discuss cuts in spending and as usual, neither one of these stupid political parties can find common ground. And it is apparent that neither party really has the consideration of the will for the American people.
Liberal Democrats want higher taxes for wealthy Americans, failing to take into consideration that once the super rich receive such tax increases, they'll move elsewhere... by the way, hypocrisy from the wealthy in Hollywood who are liberal, but don't want to participate at all in any form of sacrifice. Even if that was the case to impose a higher tax on every single millionaire or billionaire in this country, it would still accumulate to less than the yearly deficit of over $1 trillion and the national debt, which is likely to pass $15 trillion by the end of September.
As it stands right now, the main issue holding up the passage of a budget, is the fact that Senator Reid is whining about planned parenthood. Notice that liberals never seem to want to address abortion and have no problem with it, but they're against the death penalty? Apparently Senator Reid sincerely believes tax payers should pay into a program that supports planned parenthood for women, even though the country is fundamentally broke and can't afford the expense of other nationalized programs. So if tax payers pay for contraception to stop women from having babies, Senator Reid will be satisfied and a budget can be passed.
Sounds like Senator Reid is getting inspiration from Chairman Mao.
Conservative Republicans meanwhile want spending cuts, including military funding. In any case, our armed forces overseas should still receive their paychecks, which liberals again won't give any consideration to. It seems pretty clear that the spending is the actual problem in Washington D.C. Keep paying those ridiculous pensions to 22 million federal workers, and keep those borders open so we can pay billions of dollars each year on illegal immigration.
And finally, to be frank, the Democratic lawmakers both in the House and Senate, have nobody else to blame except themselves on this issue. They had last September, before the election, when they still controlled both houses in Congress to pass a budget. They failed to do so.
So, in my opinion, bring a government shutdown. It will not necessarily shutdown, but rather just slow down the process. And with the exception of tax payers still on the hook either way, I'd like to see this as a learning lesson for these dumb politicians in Washington. Maybe they can see the kinds of problems they've created for years.
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