Monday, November 14, 2011

"Austerity" is simply Reality

Not knowing much about the finances and government of Italy, except that it's a typical unstable parliamentary system, I will describe the "Austerity" that America must implement to stop wasting borrowed and taxpayer money.

In simple, Reagan-esq terms, The Federal government and the states must stop wasting money:  stop spending money like a drunken sailor.

1.  Stop providing excessive retirement, health care and disability benefits.
2.  Stop letting government employees retire before age 65
3.  Stop letting retirement benefits be based on inflated pay of the last few years of work.
4.  Make the public employees pay at least 50% of the cost of retirement and health care benefits.
5.  Change disability benefits to require work - any work - except for the paraplegic or blind or deaf.
6.  Get rid of government departments wholesale:  eliminate the Departments of Education, Commerce, Labor, Energy, Health & Human Services, Agriculture, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, and Homeland Security. Keep only a few bureaus with lean staffs.
7.  Cut the pay of all Federal government employees making over $80,000 by 20% (that is, by 20% or to $80,000).
8.  Streamline the firing process for governmental employees.
9.  All governmental boards overseeing governmental employees relations should be staffed exclusively by private sector personnel.
10. Eliminate all 'bargaining' with public employee unions.

And implement the policies of Bunkerman's pamphlet, Common Sense II.

Word of the Day

"Satyriasis" - noun [$10] Medical
Satyriasis means excessive sexual desire in men.
Sentence:  The popular term for satyriasis is the Wade Boggs syndrome.  The ex-prime minister of Italy, Silvio Berlosconi, has it, too.  I'm not sure if Bill Clinton had it, or simply that Hillary cut him off.  And then we have Tiger Woods ...

14 comments:

Spin-em said...

Mark Cuban over 50% in cash...says market isn't about company funding anymore..it's about hackers slicin and dicin $$ out of market....

Spin-em said...

word of the weekend.....Newt being a ...misanthrope

Spin-em said...

I liked your pals "buy local" last week bunk...giving gifts is pretty stupid tho...a handshake.. a hug... an attaboy...an appreciation for the the people at the table should be the meaning of the season btw..lol....somehow...weve f'd that up too...

last year...Nanc and I go..lets support our local farmer... buy our tree local...keep the $$ in the area...LOW.$30...we go out.. cut it down $75...lool

Bud said...

Bman what do you call an older woman lusting after a young man ??


cougar

what do you call an older man lusting after a young boy ??

nittany lion

Spin-em said...

what do you call Bud???...a homo

Spin-em said...

loool...that is a pretty good Bud

Bunkerman said...

lol misanthrope? Nope, Newt is a lecher.

Hmmm cougar ? Must be a sports metaphor, some team mascot.

btw, the anolog of today's word for women is nymphomanic :)

Bunkerman said...

lol pay more to do own work ... just think, spin, all that fresh air and manly labor you got to do...

Just makes you feel good about the world ...

Bunkerman said...

grammatically, it's nymphomania.

Spin-em said...

Newt is a horn dog too??..lol...geezzuz

Spin-em said...

CANCEL THE NBA SEASON...WOULD ANYBODY CARE??....Cuse #5...gunna save $50 in March madness pool..ROFL...fine by me D-bags.....they suck pickin anyway... Arkansas Pine Bluff +33Ill buy a local tree with savings...ROFL

Spin-em said...

Of course now..Im gunna invite Bunk-tini to pick...watch some basketball between reading alternating lines of iambic pentameter Bunk..lol

Spin-em said...

we win..we use your craps table formula...mo money..mo money..lol...good times...good times

Bunkerman said...

NBA ... ptui. let it fold. All hogs on both sides.