Bloated? Take a Dump.
Grab the forks ‘cuz we’re done. What the government needs to understand is that the hamsters are broke. The cash cow is dead. The piggy bank is empty. We have no more to give. We are barely scraping by as it is, and no amount of political blackmail is going to change that. And by government I mean everything from school boards to the President of the United States.
On Tuesday May 19, 2009 the hamsters of the State of California sent a very clear message to the Guvernator and the legislature by rejecting six initiatives that would ultimately raise taxes and fees. The Guv was particularly keen on the passage of these shell game initiatives, going so far as to tell us that if we failed him, several thousand firefighters would be cut. This as we enter into the fire season and as Santa Barbara burned. His bluff, assuming that it was a bluff (and it better have been) could not pull any more blood out of his turnips.
By a two-thirds majority, we rejected him and his proposals. The message sent to him and the legislature, though probably lost on them, is that we want them to cut spending instead of raising taxes and fees. We want them to do this without cutting the things that our taxes are supposed to pay for, like police and fire protection, education, and most social services. These are, of course, the government’s extortion tools and they are not likely to give them up.
Except they have to. What we want them to cut are the commissions, committees, bureaus, and departments for which there is no apparent reason to exist. They are in place to provide homes for nepotism and cronyism. And there are literally hundreds of them throughout the state and federal governments. It is the fat on the steak that needs to be trimmed, not the steak itself.
What we want them to examine here is the $12 BILLION annually that California gives to programs for illegal aliens. Whatever your state spends is no less problematic. IDEA: If you want to stem the tide of illegal immigration make it less attractive. I would love to receive some of the benefits that we are providing for people who have no legal entitlement to receive them. I have nothing against people from other places as long as they legally enter and do what is required to remain in the country.
I want the government to stop printing ballots in any language other than English. If you cannot read and/or write in this country’s language, then you have no right to vote, regardless of your immigration status.
I want politicians to cease holding children hostage to get school bonds passed or to raise taxes to fund programs that we are already paying for. If the program has become too expensive but is still necessary, then cut another one or combine it with another whose budget exceeds its expenses. I am immediately suspect when a political campaign uses kids to sell itself. It’s the McDonald’s Marketing Model: Bait the kids, hook the parents.
Here’s a question: If you have a budget shortfall, how are you getting paid? If my employer has a negative balance at the bank, I’m going to lose my job. How are these people still drawing a salary when there is no money to pay them? California has a huge deficit (econ 101 lesson: deficit is bad. It means you don’t have enough income to offset your expenses) and yet our government officials, whether elected or selected, are still cashing paychecks. As one of your employers, I’m severing your pay until and unless there is enough money in the budget to employ you.
Oh, if only I could.
One other threat the government likes to employ is job losses through layoffs or terminations. Uh, memo to the idiots: When you take away people’s incomes, you TAKE AWAY THEIR ABILITY TO PAY TAXES, thereby decreasing your income and widening your deficit. Additionally, when you raise taxes on goods and services, people are more likely to stop buying the goods or using the services, which has the exact same effect. You lose income rather than create it. How did we get so stupid?
The People, aka your employer, can no longer support you. We have nothing left to give. We are tapped out. You must find other solutions to your problems. And that cannot be at the expense, once again, of those things that our tax dollars are supposed to provide. It has to be by eliminating unnecessary government entities, self-serving political appointments, and services to illegal immigrants.
If you’re bloated, take a dump. Just don’t you dare do it on us. The hamsters have enough crap to deal with already. It’s your turn at the sacrificial altar.
Grab the forks ‘cuz we’re done. What the government needs to understand is that the hamsters are broke. The cash cow is dead. The piggy bank is empty. We have no more to give. We are barely scraping by as it is, and no amount of political blackmail is going to change that. And by government I mean everything from school boards to the President of the United States.
On Tuesday May 19, 2009 the hamsters of the State of California sent a very clear message to the Guvernator and the legislature by rejecting six initiatives that would ultimately raise taxes and fees. The Guv was particularly keen on the passage of these shell game initiatives, going so far as to tell us that if we failed him, several thousand firefighters would be cut. This as we enter into the fire season and as Santa Barbara burned. His bluff, assuming that it was a bluff (and it better have been) could not pull any more blood out of his turnips.
By a two-thirds majority, we rejected him and his proposals. The message sent to him and the legislature, though probably lost on them, is that we want them to cut spending instead of raising taxes and fees. We want them to do this without cutting the things that our taxes are supposed to pay for, like police and fire protection, education, and most social services. These are, of course, the government’s extortion tools and they are not likely to give them up.
Except they have to. What we want them to cut are the commissions, committees, bureaus, and departments for which there is no apparent reason to exist. They are in place to provide homes for nepotism and cronyism. And there are literally hundreds of them throughout the state and federal governments. It is the fat on the steak that needs to be trimmed, not the steak itself.
What we want them to examine here is the $12 BILLION annually that California gives to programs for illegal aliens. Whatever your state spends is no less problematic. IDEA: If you want to stem the tide of illegal immigration make it less attractive. I would love to receive some of the benefits that we are providing for people who have no legal entitlement to receive them. I have nothing against people from other places as long as they legally enter and do what is required to remain in the country.
I want the government to stop printing ballots in any language other than English. If you cannot read and/or write in this country’s language, then you have no right to vote, regardless of your immigration status.
I want politicians to cease holding children hostage to get school bonds passed or to raise taxes to fund programs that we are already paying for. If the program has become too expensive but is still necessary, then cut another one or combine it with another whose budget exceeds its expenses. I am immediately suspect when a political campaign uses kids to sell itself. It’s the McDonald’s Marketing Model: Bait the kids, hook the parents.
Here’s a question: If you have a budget shortfall, how are you getting paid? If my employer has a negative balance at the bank, I’m going to lose my job. How are these people still drawing a salary when there is no money to pay them? California has a huge deficit (econ 101 lesson: deficit is bad. It means you don’t have enough income to offset your expenses) and yet our government officials, whether elected or selected, are still cashing paychecks. As one of your employers, I’m severing your pay until and unless there is enough money in the budget to employ you.
Oh, if only I could.
One other threat the government likes to employ is job losses through layoffs or terminations. Uh, memo to the idiots: When you take away people’s incomes, you TAKE AWAY THEIR ABILITY TO PAY TAXES, thereby decreasing your income and widening your deficit. Additionally, when you raise taxes on goods and services, people are more likely to stop buying the goods or using the services, which has the exact same effect. You lose income rather than create it. How did we get so stupid?
The People, aka your employer, can no longer support you. We have nothing left to give. We are tapped out. You must find other solutions to your problems. And that cannot be at the expense, once again, of those things that our tax dollars are supposed to provide. It has to be by eliminating unnecessary government entities, self-serving political appointments, and services to illegal immigrants.
If you’re bloated, take a dump. Just don’t you dare do it on us. The hamsters have enough crap to deal with already. It’s your turn at the sacrificial altar.
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