Welp, I agree with every word you wrote.
But Kabar, I fully understand that Medicare and SS are drains on this country, not operating in the black like planned.
Those of us who got up every morning and went to work, we didn’t know where our money went, it was just deducted from our paycheck and that was the law.
I also understand that all those silly grants and pork barrell things are pennies compared to the enormity of entitlement spending. I am pretty sure the Republicans know this and want desperately to fix it.
BUT they too are part of the problem.
Cause while many of us would stand up and say hey, give me a couple hundred less every month, I am a loyal American, I’m okay with it.....FIRST we want to see the waste in gubmint dealt with.
I predicted to husband, as he busily changed clocks either forward, backward or wherever he was going, that over the next month we will hear stories of gubmint silliness bejeesus.
Already there’s a web site that managed, via compilation of absurd gubmint spending programs, to get all the money needed by the sequester!
Stupid things like watching squirrels mate or setting teddy bears on fire....I dunno....we’ve all heard of it.
But that’s just the really apparent! I’m willing to bet that there are thousands, if not millions, of employees on gubmint payrolls that no longer word there! I’m willing to bet that if somehow some impartial audit firm could get in on what’s going on....man, come on, we all know it goes on.
Then let’s look into those crazy awards....like the so-called “black farmers” nonsense.
My mind boggles.
This is something the citizenry expects before they go after the entitlements.
All those journalists so mad at the bully White House could blow this apart.
We all have to tighten our belts and this insane rule of the Democrats that gubmint spending must NOT be reduced is nuts.
But entitlements?
Gotta do a lot of other fiscal housekeeping first.
The politicos....Rep or Dem....they don’t want this. That pork barrell and study of mating squirrels is often cycled round right back into their campaigns.
Bigger problem...we got an entrenched political class. They are protecting their own.
Folks like us.....pat on head and tell to go away.
The largest class of welfare recipients are government “workers”. They are RAT union thugs at every level of government.
That’s why you can safely say the union runs the country. (and the executive branch “workers” are overwhelmingly RAT)
A little off topic but I will tell you the BEST way to steal from a company. Take it from me, a payroll veteran of many years.
PHANTOM EMPLOYEES!!!
Every job I went to I caught them.
First payroll job I worked at, the very first, after a well-deserved promotion, I caught a woman been on the payroll...on jury duty....every day for a YEAR AND A HALF!
First thing, I call down to supervisor...”Well she turned in her jury slip to Joe Blow so I guess it’s okay,” he told me. Man, by this point I’m thinking Baltimore city has to reimburse us cause we can’t afford employees on jury duty for over a year, go to hell.
So turns out the lady was in some kind of jury list that MIGHT be called to serve. She actually only served on a jury for two days.
She got to keep the money cause the union said companyt should have explained that she must go to WORK when not called to serve on jury.
In a way, they’re right.
I got a hunch there’s thousands of phantom gubmint employees, it’s in my bones I know it. This is kind of an easy thing to do. The jury duty lady was a company error but oh I’ve found many a phantom employee, set up intentionally, in my day.
So here’s my offer....Go ahead aHehnd reduce my entitlement siuch as it is....but first...I want an audit of gubmint agencies by a respected accounting firm with results publicized and public hearings on same.
How’s about the repubs get out and about and offer this?
Heh,.
Never happen. We’re mired in a vast wasteland of muckity muck overseen by the ruling elite.
Bums me out.
Denial just ain't a river in Egypt. We need to do entitlements first, especially Medicare. And what did we do? We just added another huge entitlement program called Obamacare.
Do you know what the Germans did to get their fiscal house in order? They reduced benefits to the elderly. The Greeks cut pensions by 20% and it still is not enough. This other fiscal housekeeping won't come any where near solving our fiscal problems.