H/T DML
Saturday, 7 February 2009
.gif)
.gif)
Reductions......this would work at Westminster.
When a company falls on difficult times, one of the things that seems to happen is they reduce their staff and workers. The remaining workers need to find ways to continue to do a good job or risk that their job would be eliminated as well. Wall Street, and the media normally congratulate the CEO for making this type of "tough decision", and his board of directors gives him a big bonus.
Our government should not be immune from similar risks.
Therefore: Reduce the House of Representatives from the current 435 members to 218 members and Senate members from 100 to 50 (one per State). Also reduce remaining staff by 25%.
Accomplish this over the next 8 years. (Two steps / two elections) and of course this would require some redistricting.
Some Yearly Monetary Gains Include:
$44,108,400 for elimination of base pay for congress. (267 members X $165,200 pay / member / yr.)
$97,175,000 for elimination of the above people's staff. (estimate $1.3 Million in staff per each member of the House, and $3 Million in staff per each member of the Senate every year)
$240,294 for the reduction in remaining staff by 25%.
$7,500,000,000 reduction in pork barrel ear-marks each year. (Those members whose jobs are gone. Current estimates for total government pork earmarks are at $15 Billion / yr)
The remaining representatives would need to work smarter and would need to improve efficiencies. It might even be in their best interests to work together for the good of our country?
We may also expect that smaller committees might lead to a more efficient resolution of issues as well. It might even be easier to keep track of what your representative is doing.
Congress has more tools available to do their jobs than it had back in 1911 when the current number of representatives was established. (telephone, computers, cell phones to name a few)
Note: Congress did not hesitate to head home when it was a holiday, when the nation needed a real fix to the economic problems. Also, we have 3 senators that have not been doing their jobs for the past 18+ months (on the campaign trail) and still they all have been accepting full pay. These facts alone support a reduction in senators & congress.
Summary of opportunity:
$44,108,400 reduction of congress members.
$282,100, 000 for elimination of the reduced house member staff.
$150,000,000 for elimination of reduced senate member staff.
$59,675,000 for 25% reduction of staff for remaining house members.
$37,500,000 for 25% reduction of staff for remaining senate members.
$7,500,000,000 reduction in pork added to bills by the reduction of congress members.
$8,073,383,400 per year, estimated total savings. (that's 8-BILLION just to start!)
Big business does these types of cuts all the time.
If Congresspersons were required to serve 20, 25 or 30 years (like everyone else) in order to collect retirement benefits, there is no telling how much we would save. Now they get full retirement after serving only ONE term.
IF you are happy how the Congress spends our taxes, then just delete this message. IF you are NOT at all happy, then I assume you know what to do.
H/T Shelly
Friday, 6 February 2009
Question for the Day....
Britain is virtually at a stand still with a bit of snow. What's going to happen when it all melts?
Bureaucracy never changes.......
The following resolutions were passed by the Board of Councilmen in Canton, Mississippi:–
Resolved, by this Council, that we build a new Jail.
Resolved, that the new Jail be built out of the materials of the old Jail.
Resolved, that the old Jail be used until the new Jail is finished.
– Charles Carroll Bombaugh, Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of Literature, 1875
H/T DML
.jpg)
.jpg)
Explain this Mr Gore......
'This is 60 miles from Al Gores Tennessee home, This is my neighbors yard. Due to the ice storm in Kentucky 27 dead, at the height of the storm over 607,000 with out power. After almost 2 weeks still over 50,000 with out power. GLOBAL WARMING MY ASS' - Gary P
Dear Tech Support,
Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed that the new program began making unexpected changes to the accounting modules, limiting access to flower and jewellery applications that had operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0.
In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as Romance 9.9 but installed undesirable programs such as NFL 5.0, NBA 3.0 and PremierLeague 7.2. Conversation 8.0 no longer runs and HouseCleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system. I’ve tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail.
Signed:
Desperate Wife
------------------------------------------------------
Dear Desperate Wife,
Keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an entertainment package, while Husband 1.0 is an operating system.
Try to enter the command: C:/I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME and install Tears 6.2. Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the applications Guilty 3.0 and Flowers 7.0. But remember, overuse can cause damage, with Husband 1.0 defaulting to GrumpySilence 2.5, Happyhour 7.0 or Beer 6.1. Beer 6.1 is a very bad program that will create “Snoring Loudly” wave files.
Be especially cautious about the HotChik virus – it’s programmed to corrupt Husband 1.0 utterly (as well as all future Husband upgrades).
DO NOT install MotherInLaw 1.0 or reinstall another Boyfriend program. These are not supported applications and will crash Husband 1.0.
In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have limited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly.
Consider buying additional software to improve performance. I personally recommend HotFood 3.0, Lingerie 5.3 and Keep-a-nice-body 10.1.
Good Luck,
Tech Support
H/T DML
News......
3 to 4.3 Billion Barrels of Technically Recoverable Oil Assessed in North Dakota and Montana’s Bakken Formation. They are floating on the stuff.
Outrage as BBC presenter Jeremy Clarkson brands the Prime Minister a 'one-eyed Scottish idiot'
And he is bloody right. A bunch of scottish socialists can't handle the truth.
Banish Big Brother: The state's surveillance powers must be curbed, say Lords. Whether the state takes any notice is another matter.
The great race doll backlash: 2,200 complain to BBC over Carol Thatcher sacking. The majority of Britain is fed up with the BBC and it's liberal bulls**t and bias.
Isn't it time the Golliwog Squad finally grew up? I'd rather they dropped dead.
How dare these BBC liberals patronise us. Time the TV licence was abolished.
Controller gives a chilling insight into the totalitarian universe of the closed BBC mind. Sack the bitch.
Blunkett bobbies are 'glorified security guards', says Scotland Yard report. No they are worse. Norfolk is overrun with the useless c**ts.
Ford workers threaten to strike over planned pay and job cuts. Sack the strikers. It will be cheaper than redundancies. Only an idiot would risk losing their job right now.
Troops' Bully Beef and biscuit ration packs replaced with pasta and Halal menus. What no biscuits AB!
The skoolz minister who must try harder: Jim Knight gets an 'F' for 'Fail' in spelling on his blog. Illiterate oaf.
We're in denial: afraid to face up to the real causes of recession. Greed is always the culprit.
President Barack Obama meets Tony Blair before Gordon Brown. The Black and White Bullfest. They are two sides of the same lying liberal coin.
California's farms and vineyards 'could disappear by the end of the century' because of global warming. By a Nobel winning nutjob.
Moqtada al-Sadr 'to suffer heavy defeat in Iraq election'. He can run home to mummy.
Zimbabwe faces 55,000 more cholera cases as disease moves from town to countryside. How much more suffering must they endure?
Hamas official stopped with £8 million in cash. I wonder where he got that from!
Vladimir Putin flies in Bjorn Again for Abba tribute concert. First semi sane thing he has done.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
