Budget Problems

YOUR Congressman believes this is "unnecessary spending..."

 

But THIS is "Essential Services:"

Words, Words, Words

WARNING !! DANGER, WILL ROBINSON!! DANGER11

Should the Federal Government "shut down" due to lack of a budget, you will lose some or all of these "services:"
1. The Marine Mammal Commission, preserving seals, not salmon.
2. The Migratory Bird Conservation Commission, keeping  geese safe on runways.
3. The Millennium Challenge  Corp., spending your money in Somalia.
4. The Education Department, or E.D.  and you KNOW what that means.
5. The Department of Energy, freeing us from foreign oil since 1974.  So far, so good...
6. The English Language Acquisition Office.  For English, press "7."
7. The Federal Housing Finance Board, preventing Fannie Mae failures since, well, never.
8. The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.  WTF? What's That For?
9. The Fossil Energy Commission, keeping Nancy Pelosi breathing, I guess.
10. The Selective Service System.  Do you feel a draft?

Ronald Reagan said it best:  "A government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!"

Back to....THIS?

Rested and refreshed after a week in sunny Cabo San Lucas, which is, as I understand it, Spanish for the Patron Saint of "Have I got a Timeshare for YOU, Gringo!"  We were even approached after dinner in a restaurant by one of Mexico's used-car-salesman-turned-timeshare-moguls.  My wife went livid on him, offering to serve his entrails to the next sports-fishing boat as chum.  And I believe that she is entirely capable of exactly that.  But I now have a deeper understanding of why so many Mexicans wish to abandon their little corner of Paradise in order to sleep 12-deep in a garage in Woodburn:  the garage is doubtlessly more sanitary than CSL:   I was tempted to let a stray feral cat lick the glass and flatware, just to get it a bit cleaner..

So, we return to yet another Sam Adams "Astroglide-the-taxpayer" scenario, this one as reported in Sunday's Orego-I mean, Birdcage Liner.  Seems Slammin' Sammy likes to backdoor funds as well as friends:  diverting $360,000 from Portland's already Brobdingnagian water-and-sewer charges to offer scholarships to PCC students to help prepare them for City Hall jobs.....A closer look at the funding stol.., I mean, redistributed from ratepayers reveals that only 1/3 of said $360,000 will actually be doled out to worthy scholars:  the remaining $240,000 of "liquid assets," if you will, would provide THREE new gubmint jobs to oversee the distribution of said wealth.  For those of you who attended Portland Public Schools, that equates to one Department Head at $160,000 per year, and two grunts at $40,000 per year each; said grunts doing their typical 98% of the actual workload while being allowed to hear about the DH's luncheon meetings with His Samness, the President of PCC, and various other local luminaries.
And you wonder why Lars Larson calls this town "Moscow-on-the-Willamette."

By the way, you may have noticed that water and sewer rates for Portland have risen 80% over the past nine years, and with the prospect of an additional $500,000,000 being "invested" in a Federally-mandated "upgrade" to the Bull Run watershed in order to solve a non-existent bacterial infection problem. there looms an additional 80% increase in rates.  And you thought the Feds only cared about oil spills.  That "cure" should drive the cost of our tap water into the range of Evian or Dasani.  I personally plan to install a quasi-lawful pump in the creek which flows through my property but which is apparently excluded from the usual riparian rights given water-adjacent property owners.  The City has no problems charging me a "watershed maintenance fee," however, even though not one of their maintainers has ever set foot on my property.  That is probably a good thing, though, as he/she would be as welcome as a BATFE agent at a skinhead campout in Idaho.  "Hey, Buck!  Let's get our AK-47's and play blow the tail off the Narc!"

So, once again, yet another Socialist program is to be, if you will pardon the expression, Sam,  crammed down the taxpayers' throats by the myopic spendthrift heirarchy at City Hall.  let's all spread that wealth around.  Well, YOU get to spread YOUR wealth around, the city officials will still be hanging on to theirs, rest assured.  At least we're not building a bridge to nowhe....no, really?  TWO bridges?  OK, so at least we won't expand Tracula past SoWat to Lake Osw...you're kidding, right?

Maybe Mexico ain't so bad, after all.

Any Questions?

Courtesy Townhall.com

Not New, But Well Said

Alan Simpson, Retired Senator from Wyoming, calls senior citizens the "Greediest Generation" as he compared "Social Security" to a Milk Cow with 310 million teats. August, 2010.

Here's a response in a letter from an unknown fellow in Montana.

"Hey Alan, let's get a few things straight...

1. As a career politician, you have been on the public dole for FIFTY YEARS.

2. I have been paying Social Security taxes for 48 YEARS (since I was 15 years old. I am now 63).

3. My Social Security payments, and those of millions of other Americans, were safely tucked away in an interest bearing account for decades until you political pukes decided to raid the account and give OUR money to a bunch of zero ambition losers in return for votes, thus bankrupting the system and turning Social Security into a Ponzi scheme that would have made Bernie Madoff proud.

4. Recently, just like Lucy & Charlie Brown, you and your ilk pulled the proverbial football away from millions of American seniors nearing retirement and moved the goalposts for full retirement from age 65 to age 67. NOW, you and your shill commission is proposing to move the goalposts YET AGAIN.

5. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying into Medicare from Day One, and now you morons propose to change the rules of the game. Why? Because you idiots mismanaged other parts of the economy to such an extent that you need to steal money from Medicare to pay the bills.

6. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying income taxes our entire lives, and now you propose to increase our taxes yet again. Why? Because you incompetent bastards spent our money so profligately that you just kept on spending even after you ran out of money. Now, you come to the American taxpayers and say you need more to pay off YOUR debt.

To add insult to injury, you label us "greedy" for calling "bullsh*t!" on your incompetence. Well, Captain Bullshit, I have a few questions for YOU.

1. How much money have you earned from the American taxpayers during your pathetic 50-year political career?

2. At what age did you retire from your pathetic political career, and how much are you receiving in annual retirement benefits from the American taxpayers?

3. How much do you pay for YOUR government provided health insurance?

4. What cuts in YOUR retirement and healthcare benefits are you proposing in your disgusting deficit reduction proposal, or, as usual, have you exempted yourself and your political cronies?

It is you, Captain Bullsh*t, and your political co-conspirators who are "greedy".

It is you and they who have bankrupted America and stolen the American dream from millions of loyal, patriotic taxpayers. And for what? Votes.

That's right, sir. You and yours have bankrupted America for the sole purpose of advancing your pathetic political careers. You know it, we know it, and you know that we know it.

And you can take that to the bank, you miserable son of a b*tch."

The Olde Dope Peddler....

The Olde Dope Peddler is the title to a sarcastic song written by the late Tom Lehrer.  The central theme is "get 'em hooked in grade school, and have a customer for life."  To that end, here's a screenshot of the "Building Fluency" agenda being fomented in grade schools across America, published by Shell Education.  Looks to me like that "fundamental transformation" has already begun, leading the next generation into that Great Socialist Utopia.  
By the way, "utopia" is the Greek term for "No Place,"  the mythical, non-existent mid-Atlantic island state. 
Have a nice swim.


I'll bet that YOU didn't know that it is the federal government's Constitutional responsibility to meet peoples' basic needs such as housing, education, transportation, and health care.  Sleep through that section in high school history?  How about labor laws as being a Constitutional mandate?  My, my how backwards you are, I guess you just wouldn't be comfortable in Utopia until you pass through the de-lousing chambers that haven't been used since 1939 by the National Socialist German Workers' Party.  Sieg Heil, mein Fuhrer!!


Ooops, I mean, "Yes, Mister President!"  My bad.

I Just LOVE Big Brother, Really, I Do!