Posted on 02/10/2010 7:55:15 AM PST by Big Bureaucracy
Washington DC is covered in snow and the zillions of government bureaucrats can’t make it to their desks. Funny! The USA is running without the big chunk of the federal employees for a week and nobody really cares.....nowmageddon will prompt once more the federal government to ask for money to expand the distant workplace idea. This is a perfect way for Washington DC to grow government without adding new grand buildings to remind people how big the Bureaucracy of the federal government has become.
Folks in DC are thankful to all firefighters, electric grid maintenance workers and the people who coordinate them, the police and the ambulance and emergency vehicles drivers, the doctors and nurses at the hospitals who continue to do their job plowing through the snow. The National Guard is providing assistance to civilians who are trapped or cut from the power lines. The security, maintenance and emergency personal are the only folks taking care of the government’s buildings today.
While the government bureaucrats are no show the little people with important jobs will save the day. Senators and Congressmen are no super-hero. Emergency workers in Washington DC today are. We’ll do just fine without all the Capitol staffers for a week. May be we should do it every year. We can have a National Week for America without Federal Bureaucrats to remind the big shots at Washington DC that they are only in office because they are granted the opportunity to serve the American people like those who will dig roads out of the snow today.........
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Should have done a furlough. If you can’t make it don’t come, but you will not be paid. That was what happened to my organization after we were ravaged by a hurricane. It happened on a Friday and I think we got one free day, but after that every body had to be back or take vacation. I was the first one back because we had to get the systems up and running.
Anyway, snow days are great, but there ought to be some urgency attached to getting things back to normal. Monday was understandable because there was no time to plow. Tuesday was sort of a stretch, but they knew this thing today was coming.
Frankly, Ronald Reagan would say that any day that the feds don’t work is a good day for America.
And the idiots at NBC say this is proof that the earth is still warming! Warm air holds more moisture, so we get more snow.
LOL! So the cold air means warming is happening. LOL!
This is so sad. They are so desperate to keep the global warming hoax alive. LOL!
We never had any snow here in central Indiana til that dern Bush poo-poo-ed Kyoto.
Nobody cares? It's a godsend!
I thought the Snowmageddon was Bush’s fault.
Nonessential personnel are the ones affected, right? Shouldn’t we ONLY be employing ESSENTIAL personnel?
While visiting an aunt and uncle in a Maryland suburb of D.C. back in the 60s, I noticed that my uncle came down to breakfast each morning and peered out the window at his neighbors’ driveways. He was a private sector engineer who was heavily involved in the development of the first instrument landing systems for airports. Nearly all his neighbors held government jobs.
One morning I asked him about his routine of peering at their driveways. He responded that he was always happy to see their cars still there as it meant that they weren’t downtown wasting office supplies and making life miserable for the rest of us.
After spending 30+ years trying to make a living in what little remains of the private sector here, I fully understand why he felt the way he did.
And can someone tell me why, when there is some lower severity situation or natural event, a government sends out word that only ESSENTIAL EMPLOYEES SHOULD REPORT FOR “WORK?” It begs the question WHY SHOULD A TAXPAYER FUNDED ACTIVITY EVEN HAVE NON-ESSENTIAL EMPLOYEES??
Nobody cares? It’s a godsend!
It is worth the money just not to have those ignorant morons running loose in our capitol making laws the American people are against. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!
Nonessential personnel are the ones affected, right? Shouldn’t we ONLY be employing ESSENTIAL personnel?
Thank you for that great observation!
Your uncle was a wise and great man!
I saw some BS article that this was costing the Feds $100,000,000 a day to keep people home.
I look at it this way, at least our kids aren’t having their future earnings stolen from them today.
Raise your hands if you’ve missed the Federal government being shut down for the past three days. Anybody? Anybody at all?
The Earth is spinning, my power is on, radio stations are broadcasting, cable works, DSL works, phone works, food in the refrigerator and pantry, cat still curled up in the cat bed sleeping the afternoon away, car still runs and is filled with gas... I’m trying to see just where my life is impacted by having no Federal government this week.
Seems to me the country gets along just fine without $100,000,000 worth of Federal workers staying home and doing nothing. Perhaps that’s something for someone to run on.
Thank you. He was. And so was my grandfather, Uncle Bill’s father-in-law. (Exhibit A below.)
Bill’s wife was, of course, my grandfather’s daughter. Sadly for the family, she was a flaming liberal and often joked that on election day, she and Bill offset their votes and might as well have stayed home.
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File this either under “What is past is prologue” or “Everything old is new again.”
This letter came to my attention many years after my grandfather went to his final reward. I am saddened that he never knew that some of us down-liners inherited his outrage gene. I am further saddened that he and I never had a chance to discuss these matters.
In the approximately once per generation economic excesses and insanity – almost always triggered by the existence of un-backed fiat paper “money” – a minority of citizens living through the madness grasp what’s going on. But only a small handful speak out about it.
I have been speaking out about it since my late friend Tupper Saussy introduced me to Roger Sherman.
I am proud that my grandfather was also one of those who spoke out.
Unfortunately, few have either the desire or capability to grasp the nexus of the problem let alone try to affect the necessary changes.
Yet we persist as the alternative is too grim to contemplate.
And if you don’t think YOU will not be impacted or – like Neal Boortz –think you can “outrun” what’s coming, that flapping sound you may hear are some very BIG buzzards coming home to roost — at YOUR house!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIo8FJJMps8
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Coshocton, Ohio
May 13, 1938
Mr. Uncle Sam
c/o Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
Washington, D.C.
My Dear Uncle:
I am in receipt of a letter dated May 5th, from Mr. Morgenthau, which letter he signed as your Secretary of the Treasury. According to the dictionary, a Treasury is, among other things, a place in which stores of wealth are deposited, and as there does not seem to be any wealth in your Treasury, it would seem that he should have signed the letter as your Treasurer of the Deficit, as, according to the dictionary, a Treasurer is, among other things, an officer who receives the public money and disperses it and, as he has dispersed a great deal more money than he has received, he is in charge of a Deficit, instead of being in charge of the Treasury.
In his letter, he attempts to persuade me that I should lend you some money by buying Savings Bonds and he states that more than 1,260,000 people own more than $1,600,000,000 maturity value of these bonds, in addition to which, I understand that you owe about $36,000,000,000 on various other kinds of bonds and notes, and that you have a contingent liability of additional billions. In his letter, he states that the savings bonds mature in ten years from the date of issue, and that they may be redeemed for a stated amount at any time after sixty days from the date of issue. This all sounds very impressive, but when these bonds mature, or in case an effort is made to have them redeemed previous to maturity, I am wondering what you will exchange for them. Will it be food, clothing and housing, or will it be 59 cent dollars of some other much greater reduced value, which dollars, as was the case with the German Mark, under similar conditions, may be of value mainly as waste paper?
When considering an application for a loan, the reputation of the prospective borrower is generally considered to be of first importance, and to be real frank about it, your actions during the past five years have not been such as to inspire confidence in you, as in addition to spending in countless foolish ways, a great deal more than your income, you have not been absolutely honorable, truthful and reliable. After borrowing large sums of money upon the promise to repay it in gold, you decided not to do so. In addition, you took from your nieces and nephews all of the gold which we had and buried it in the hills of Kentucky. I am wondering if you think that by planting it, you can cause it to grow in value, or if, like whiskey, you think the quality of it will improve with age. You are also forcing your nieces and nephews to turn over to you large sums of money, which you have promised to save for us and to return to us when old age overtakes us. Instead of saving this money for us as promised, however, you have been spending it as fast as it is received, in what appears to be nothing more or less than a drunken joy-ride.
Even though one of your age and experience should realize that it does no good to prime a broken pump, especially after having tried it for several years without success, you continue to prime the business pump, and to kick and cuss it and work on it with a sledgehammer.
I addition to other things, the frequent use of a hypodermic has done you no good, and probably explains why you penalize and abuse your nieces and nephews who are thrifty and industrious, and reward those who are incompetent and lazy; why you killed five or six million little pigs, even though our political friends are always hungry for pork; and why you destroyed crops of cotton, wheat, corn, etc. to the advantage of producers in other nations.
Like any incompetent spendthrift who violates all the tried and tested laws of economics, there must be a day of reckoning for you at some time in the future, at which time you will find it impossible to pay your debts, or else you will be obliged to pay them in depreciated currency. In either event, it does not appear to be safe or wise to lend you any more money to be used by you in making whoopee and playing Santa Claus. In order to save you from yourself and to prevent the dissipation of what few assets you may have left, a guardian should be appointed for you but this will take time and probably cannot be accomplished previous to 1940.
Your distressed nephew,
Karl W. Bachert
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