Posted on 04/01/2014 6:39:43 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Are you kidding? You’d think one who is representing the mighty Badgers, who made it to the Final Four based on sacrificial work ethic and discipline that obviously pays off in the end, he who represents the great state of Wisconsin that hosts this underdog celebrated college basketball team, would understand that future success depends on hard work and sacrifices. The latest Ryan (R, Wisconsin) Budget is not an April Fool’s joke. Palin said that the budget that was presented, though,"really IS a joke because it is STILL not seeing the problem."
"It STILL is not proposing reining in wasteful government overspending TODAY, instead of speculating years out that some future Congress and White House may possibly, hopefully, eh-who-knows, take responsibility for today’s budgetary selfishness and shortsightedness to do so," she continued. "THIS is the definition of insanity. Do we still not understand how dangerous it is to allow government to grow unchecked as we shackle ourselves with massive debt – a good portion of which is held by foreign nations who don’t necessarily like us?"
"If we can’t balance the budget today, what on earth makes us think it will happen at some future date?" she wrote. "The solution is staring us in the face. We need to rein in spending today, and don’t tell me there is nothing to cut when we know every omnibus bill is loaded with pork and kickbacks."
Palin urged her supporters to read the Tea Party leaders quoted in the Breitbart News article she linked that gave her "the same reaction that my daughter just caused when she punked me with a very unfunny April Fool’s Day announcement:"
As my Dad would say after these April Fool’s announcements, “This would kill a lesser man.” This out-of-control debt is killing our economic future.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Where is the actual unaltered photo of that sign? Leftists claim to have "seen" such signs at Tea Party events. If there were any such things, they were false flag operations from communist infiltrators.
The reality is Patriotic Americans realize that Social Security is a marxist Ponzi scheme. The evil woman behind Social Security and many of the New Deal programs was Frances Perkins, Franklin Diablo Roosevelt's woman of the night, among many that the adulterer had. Every single Conservative that I know opposes Social Security and other such anti-liberty marxist programs. Alf Landon was both brave and absolutely correct in his principled opposition to Social Security.
And on a lighter note, even the leftist singer Merle Haggard mocks the program in his satirical song, "Big City" calling it "so-called Social Security".
go to hell smartass....you told he me they to go to hell.....hey pal...you first
The Uniparty in Washington plays games like the Paul Ryan-Patty Murray budget pushed through late last year.
It created new taxes under the guise of “airline fees”, cut military pensions and extended unemployment.
The Democrats try to create an emotional wedge for the election over the unemployment cut with test votes in Washington, but they agreed to the cuts to begin with.
This kind of Western European style austerity budget is exactly what the big political parties, big banks and powerful elites want.
They want debt management instead of debt elimination.
Just like the credit card companies like it when you have to pay them every month with a balance on your card (They give you a good credit rating if you are in debt) the nation is expected to maintain a debt and make payments on it.
SARAH PALIN IS RIGHT ON AND PAUL RYAN IS DEAD WRONG.
95 PERCENT OF ELECTED REPUBLICANS EITHER FAKE CONSERVATISM OR REPUDIATE IT.
Those of us who have been here for eons and have been through Corporate "Downsizing", "Reorganizing", and "Rightsizing" know what gets cut and sometimes what pain it brings. It means sometimes looking at your organization with fresh eyes and utilizing tools such as Kaizen, Demming in all it's flavors, Six Sigma etc etc. to re-due your assembly line if you will. I don't care if it is an auto assembly line, a bank teller window, or a underling @ EPA, their always is a better way.
I bugs me that the depts in DC to my knowledge have never gone through these processes.
It is long overdue, and even the likes of the sometimes Liberal "Business Insider" even get that the 5 Trillion number doesn't even put a dent in it...
and doing so totally inappropriately I might add….in your attempt to be pithy, you became simply inaccurate.
…if you have to ax…...
The Social Security tax is a tax applied to income related to labor. All employees and self-employed entrepreneurs pay into Social Security through the Social Security tax, which is also known as Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI).
The Social Security tax functions very much like a flat tax. A single rate of 12.4% is applied to wage and self-employment income earned by a worker up to a maximum dollar limit. Half of this tax is paid for by the employee in the form of payroll withholding. The other half of this tax is paid for by the employer. Self-employed persons pay both halves of the Social Security tax since they are both the employee and the employer.
Doesn’t much matter what this budget is. It is a waste of time because Hairy has already said it is DOA in the senate.
So, we know democrats are not going to cut entitlements, they are expanding them. Republicans in DC won’t cut entitlements either.
They all will cut the military and screw over old people.
That is where we are at.
“I bugs me that the depts in DC to my knowledge have never gone through these processes.”
Not only have they never tried restructure to realize efficiencies through lean management practices they actually are moving the other way. I believe the ACA added over 100 new federal bureaucracies to support Obamacare. Recently I read federal employee pensions are administered manually. They have been trying since the early 1980’s to automate pension administration without success.
As long as management incentives in the bureaucracy encourage spending instead of cost reduction and efficiency, the government will continue to balloon.
Cutting fraud, waste, and abuse would include entitlements. Medicare would be cut by 1/3 by doing this, and food stamps by probably 1/2. Social Security Disability Payments would easily be reduced by 1/3. One could cut about $400 billion per year from entitlements without affecting any who really need the help.
YOU are the one who brought up entitlements, in your post #57..."the problem is entitlements". You then continued to look into your special "gusty" crystal ball and spew that Sarah would never do anything about (cutting) entitlements. So, I gave you a fact (strange concept for you) regarding Sarah Palin and entitlement CUTS/reforms.
Here's another fact - not hero worship - for ya...Sarah actually cut spending by 10%, as Gov of AK. You can read about this, and Sarah's many other factual achievements, here.
You grow up, and stop with the *self* worship. Nothing personal.
sorry to be over your head, but you are simply wrong. Oh, lotta things could be said about me, but being a one note samba and always talking about the same old tired subject in an economically ignorant way is NOT ONE OF THEM by any stretch.
I could list valid complaints, but that ain’t one of them…..thus, your “three finger” statement is absurd.
Oh I was perhaps belittling a bit….but that was not what the “three finger” accusation indicates. Please note there were 2,3,4 others who belittled same person for same reason, and did so with perhaps even more vinegar than I. So I am guilty as charged for belittling. I think it was/is deserved. I am most definitely NOT guilty of being a one note samba by any stretch.
I also disagree that belittling is ALWAYS off limits on this or any other forum. This particular poster has been doing the same thing for years, and people are getting damned tired of it. Thus the attacks are ramping up a bit, as human nature would indicate they should.
I agree with your every word, again!
And by the way, the US is still #2 globally in manufacturing, and we still beat #3, 4, and 5 (Japan, Germany, and Russia) combined. It's not as if there is no manufacturing here, Mr One Note. (China, with 4 times the population, is still only 15-20% ahead of us in manufacturing.)
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