Comments on: The Pigs Outnumber The Productive

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:44:33 +0000

The retiring Senator Bunning was trying to make a point on (a) pay as you go and (b) the corporate “tax credit” known as “black liquor”. See:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/…/AR2010030303479.html

Even the WaPo is partially with Bunning with the “mainstream” Democrats and Republicans still steeped in their corruption. Indeed, most tax and spending battles pit the mildly corrupt vs. the egregiously corrupt as both parties sock the taxpayer.

My reply to the Steves: we don’t need new rules or new gimmicks. If the 10th Amendment were obeyed and federal powers were limited to Article 1 Section 8 and wars of necessity, we would have a balanced budget. Disenfranchising people, term limits, campaign finance reform, balanced budget amendments, line item vetoes … are all procedural gimmicks. If the plutocratic PIGS can get around the Constitution, they can get around any other gimmick. As Animal Farm said about the PIGS – all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

As for targeted tax credits and earmarks – recall that the Constitution opposed bills of attainder and was for the GENERAL welfare, not specific welfare of politically connected interests. We have taken our own revolution and turned it on its head.

By: STEVEN

STEVEN — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:24:52 +0000

Thanks for the push Ilana.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Federation_of_Federal_Employees

I know wiki’s not the most respected resource but it appears to hold to the dragnet apothegm.

By: Steve Hogan

Steve Hogan — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:36:48 +0000

Unions are quite skilled at employing intimidation techniques to achieve their ends. They’re not so hot at seeing the long-term consequences, however. Inevitably they price themselves out of jobs. Witness Detroit, which has become a ghost town.

Next up for our public sector brethren are city, state, and eventually federal defaults. All those cushy pensions won’t be worth squat. Either their absurdly lavish contracts will be null and void in bankruptcy proceedings, or the dollar will become kindling for the fireplace via a spiraling devaluation.

Union workers are in for a very hard lesson. Too bad they’re taking the rest of us with them.

By: Steven

Steven — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:35:08 +0000

In line with this, I can’t understand how federal, state, and local employees are allowed to unionize. [It used to be illegal. A link tracing this devolution would be nice.]
No, you work for us, we’ll set the compensation level, take it or leave it.
Better yet, along the line of not allow those how receive government assistance to vote, how bout we make so that if your a union member you only get one vote – for the entire union.
Just saying…