Posted on 11/18/2012 4:08:28 AM PST by Libloather
The big expense with food stamps is in the program funds ~ not the employees. You could run most of that activity from a relatively modest facility with good internet access and a few dozen accountants.
Try USDA first then. I don't care.
Oh, one other thing ~ tell us your objective. Is it to destabilize federal spending programs, get rid of federal employees, save a lot of money, balance the budget........?
Seriously, what is it you hope to accomplish.
That said, I understand and agree that we need to all tighten our belts if we are to stop the trend of becoming Greece. I'm grateful to have my job even as my financial situation deteriorates - I'm still not hurting like so many others out there.
Oh, I don’t want to hear that whine about federal employees ‘sacrifice’. It’s a myth pushed by the unions who represent the idle, shiftless, violent and lazy. I retired from fed service and know there could be solid, substantial cuts to the workforce with no ill effects. There’s far, far too much deadwood which would never be suffered by private industry. I’m sure someone will take issue with my generalization, but I’m sticking by it although I do know some exceptions.
I do have an idea of how many millions work for the central socialist government and what they don't do is criminal!
Just look where the most wealthy counties are...WDC suburbs. Maybe it is merely a “coinkydinky” that many of the residents are fed employees, other government employees or consultants/contractors to government. I think not. Cry me a river over their pay crisis.
When a Roman military unit displayed cowardice in the face of the enemy, they were sometimes punished by ‘decimation’. This practice involved randomly choosing every tenth man in the unit for execution, to show that there were worse ways of dying than an honorable death in battle.
The remaining nine soldiers actually performed the executions, usually by stoning or clubbing. And remarkably, most units straightened up after decimation.
Great idea. Let’s apply this to the entire Washington, D.C. political animals.
Intent, overall, it is to join the conversation in trying to identify the waste in government. For instance, there is or was the wool subsidiary, which was put in place when our military wore wool uniforms. I really don't think we need to keep that and I'm sure there are many other programs that are unnecessary now, maybe they were at one time but the government seems incapable of discontinuing any program, no matter how out of date, destructive, or costly it may be.
Did I offend you somehow? Or were you reply to someone else?
Outlaw public unions, then eliminate every nonessential agency and cut the compensation of the rest.
......uhhh.....didn’t the Hostess cupcake union boys and girls just eliminate themselves!?
Let us pray the fed unions do the same! 50 years ago, 90% of their jobs we got along without just fine!
I wish that could happen, but it's turned into a negative feedback loop. The only hope of reclaiming our republic is outlaw public unions.
It takes a murder to fire a government union worker (unless they sport a Ron Paul bumper sticker). They've grown their ranks into an undefeatable voting block and they will continue electing pawns who grow their ranks and give them more benefits. Ask Allen West.
They shouldn’t be allowed to vote either. Nor should congress be allowed to determine their own pay.
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