Imagine government were a cancer. (Not too hard to do.) Imagine it could talk. What would it say? “I’m GOOD for you! FEED me!”
I will advance my idea again of how the USA can fix the staggering debt problem:
DECLARE NATIONAL CHAPTER 13 BANKRUPTCY AND APPOINT AN ALL-POWERFUL JUDGE TO DISCHARGE IT!
1. Pass a law (simple majority in Congress) to declare national bankruptcy.
2. The Bankruptcy Judge and his Trustees make all the decisions and kill all the sacred cows. Small Biz Administration, farm price supports, County Agents, Dept. of Education, National Public Radio, National Endowment for the Arts, unneeded military bases, numerous commissions, subsidies, grants, etc. would come under the knife or be eliminated. A million leftist GS14s would have to go flip burgers for a living using their liberal arts degrees.
3. Cut entitlements. Advance the age for collecting Social Security and Medicare. Re-examine every person on SSI Disability and make them prove they are disabled. Make it a priority to send sick illegal aliens back to their country of origin for medical care (off Medicaid). Cut Congressional pensions to ZERO since they got us into this mess. Cut Presidential pensions to zero. Cut civil service pensions to what the lowest GS4 gets.
4. Eliminate contracts. No government unions will be recognized.
5. Lay off 80-90% of all federal workers. Contract out every function that can be privatized.
6. Sell assets. GM/Chrysler stock, mortgages held by Fannie & Freddie, BLM land, some national forests, federal buildiings, mineral rights including offshore. All proceeds must be used to PAY DOWN THE NATIONAL DEBT.
How’s that for a start?
already posted http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2567354/posts
I believe contracts that are negotiated are based on votes of the workers and retirees. With limited fund young workers will be pit against the older retirees. The older will be sold out by the younger and those pensions will be clawed back.
Good piece. Passed it along to everyone I can.
This article identifies the culprits in this small county. They're going to start experiencing harassment - by the tax peasants who REMAIN in the county. The wiser peasants will move somewhere where they don't have to pay the local "protection fees" to the .govthugs.
LOL! The remaining public sector "millionaires" will have to start robbing EACH OTHER at gunpoint at the end of the day...
You described the problem well...in a nutshell.
Can you do the same with how to fix it?