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Post by southparkcpa on Mar 10, 2017 11:58:59 GMT -5
It's a big 1% of budget. It's money well spent. If you add up all the 1%s of the budget that we could cut, it would be a decent chunk of change. One of the reasons this country wastes so much money is because people think "oh its just 1% here, 1% there" If we "capped" public pensions at $100,000 and slowly over say 10 years got the Govt to emulate the VERY BEST public company pension we would be out of debt in 25 years. |
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Post by BEAC0NJET on Mar 10, 2017 12:07:07 GMT -5
I meant to convey that I think 1% is appropriate. And yes of course we know any budget considerations that are NOT SS, Medicare/Medicaid or Defense are rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Which is why I laugh when conservative go after PBS first. As if thats some kind of accomplishment. Keep your hands off my NPR. Click and Clack got me through years of tax season Saturdays. You like NPR? Fund it yourself! Its already partially donor funded right now, right? |
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Post by southparkcpa on Mar 10, 2017 12:59:13 GMT -5
Keep your hands off my NPR. Click and Clack got me through years of tax season Saturdays. You like NPR? Fund it yourself! Its already partially donor funded right now, right? I was sort of joking. I am as conservative as it comes. I like NPR but detest it as a symbol of liberalism. I enjoy a good cigar but thats not subsidized so I say cut off the funding. I m shocked the newspaper industry is still in business. |
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Post by Ff2 on Mar 10, 2017 13:17:27 GMT -5
If you add up all the 1%s of the budget that we could cut, it would be a decent chunk of change. One of the reasons this country wastes so much money is because people think "oh its just 1% here, 1% there" and slowly over say 10 years got the Govt to emulate the VERY BEST public company pension we would be out of debt in 25 years. Would this include politicians...cuz if so...good luck with that. And we wont be out of debt until we fix SS, and Medicare/Medicaid. |
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Post by Ff2 on Mar 10, 2017 13:19:27 GMT -5
I meant to convey that I think 1% is appropriate. And yes of course we know any budget considerations that are NOT SS, Medicare/Medicaid or Defense are rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Which is why I laugh when conservative go after PBS first. As if thats some kind of accomplishment.The government should not be funding the arts or things like PBS. You want to support them, donate your own money. But federal funding of those things means the gov't starts to decide what is art, who gets grants, etc. and you know who benefits? Folks who are already "in" or rich, or fill out grant forms well. John Stossel had a good piece on this recently. I don't mind the extremely miniscule amount spent on the arts. Better that than gold toilets at the Pentagon |
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Post by Ff2 on Mar 10, 2017 13:22:01 GMT -5
I have no idea what we spend now, but it's entirely too much. I had to laugh at this line L. |
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Post by BEAC0NJET on Mar 10, 2017 13:47:27 GMT -5
The government should not be funding the arts or things like PBS. You want to support them, donate your own money. But federal funding of those things means the gov't starts to decide what is art, who gets grants, etc. and you know who benefits? Folks who are already "in" or rich, or fill out grant forms well. John Stossel had a good piece on this recently. I don't mind the extremely miniscule amount spent on the arts. Better that than gold toilets at the Pentagon Two wrongs dont make a right. Cut, cut, cut. Sounds like my wife "well, i only spent a little bit..." Yeah, after a while, it adds up. |
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Post by Sonny Werblin on Mar 10, 2017 14:15:44 GMT -5
If we "capped" public pensions at $100,000 and slowly over say 10 years got the Govt to emulate the VERY BEST public company pension we would be out of debt in 25 years. Would this include politicians...cuz if so...good luck with that. And we wont be out of debt until we fix SS, and Medicare/Medicaid. I've always wondered why it is not "need" based. I realize people pay in, but we pay into a ton of shit that doesn't pay us back. |
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Post by Big L on Mar 10, 2017 14:30:06 GMT -5
I have no idea what we spend now, but it's entirely too much. I had to laugh at this line L. How dare you. |
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Post by Sonny Werblin on Mar 10, 2017 14:31:19 GMT -5
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Post by BEAC0NJET on Mar 10, 2017 15:15:50 GMT -5
Debts down 0.3%... thats less than 1%, big whoop!  |
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Post by DDNYjets on Mar 10, 2017 15:25:04 GMT -5
Is he heading to the Southern White House this weekend? Those trips everyone are crying about have been giving us a 6000 percent return thus far.  |
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Post by southparkcpa on Mar 10, 2017 15:42:05 GMT -5
If we "capped" public pensions at $100,000 and slowly over say 10 years got the Govt to emulate the VERY BEST public company pension we would be out of debt in 25 years. Would this include politicians...cuz if so...good luck with that. And we wont be out of debt until we fix SS, and Medicare/Medicaid. Oh..it will never happen, we agree on that. When you can rob peter to taxation, pay Paul, put Paul in a union and gather all their votes, this is what you get. But no public employee pension should exceed $100,000 (with inflation adjustments). Lets give them 403B with some matching etc. Im sure the quality of employee we get at the DMV and social security office cant get much worse. |
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Post by Hotman on Mar 10, 2017 17:39:07 GMT -5
Im sure the quality of employee we get at the DMV and social security office cant get much worse. I will gladly take one of those waste of oxygens jobs |
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