WTF? Against Government Handouts While Bitching About No Increase in SS This Year

[Lostlover]

Pelosi wants to send the geezers, ah, seniors a $250 check, but I say “no way.” That’s too much government spending! - Cynthia Tucker

http://blogs.ajc.com/cynthia-tucker/2010/10/15/no-social-security-hike-great/

Why doesn't anyone say anything to these hypocrites. They say government can't do anything right except cut checks.

Why is it that no one calls these people out?

 

[jackoroe]

Well, government can't even do that right. They send checks to dead people all the time.

 

[Jack Springer]

It would be nice if government departments didn't get an automatic annual increase in their budgets.

They get that even though there isn't a real budget.

It's amazing.

 

[Lostlover]

Well, government can't even do that right. They send checks to dead people all the time.

What private sector company do you know that doesn't make mistakes in its operations?

Out of curiosity, how do you mail your letters? Do you use the terrible government run USPS for your letters? Or are you with the more expensive private sector rivals, UPS and Fed Ex?

I'd love to hear that you're mailing letters across the country with Fed Ex.

 

[archive]

Well, government can't even do that right. They send checks to dead people all the time.

ha...youre a funny guy

 

[Kulindahr]

The true hypocrisy is that they're all dancing around the real issue: COLAs.

Some asshole moron back in the 70s dreamed up COLAs as a percentage of a person's presently received income. If a COLA of 5% was declared, a person getting $10k/yr sudden;y got $10.5k, while a person getting $100k got $105k -- the richer guy got an increase equal to half of what the bottom guy was already getting!

Now, the increase in the cost of living is not a percentage, it's an amount. Pelosi is fumbling at that truth with her $250 for everyone. What needs to e done is to scrap COLAs as they stand and come up with a way to arrive at a figure that actually has something to do with how much more it costs to live for a year. In my illustration, that number probably falls closer to the bottom guy -- so every last person on the list should get an increase of, to err on the side of helping out, $1k/yr.

My most recent COLA on my disability was 15%. For me, that was barely enough to hang in. For another guy I know of on the same disability, it was enough to put a nice down payment on a $225k RV. In a rational world, he would have gotten the same increase I did -- enough to hire someone to wash, wax, and detail the outside of the RV motor home he already had.

 

[justapixel]

My most recent COLA on my disability was 15%. For me, that was barely enough to hang in.

Complaining about a 15% increase in your income when working people are getting less than 2%.

Now that takes chutzpah.

 

[JasunStrikesBack]

Complaining about a 15% increase in your income when working people are getting less than 2%.

Now that takes chutzpah.

kinda like the billionaires who are getting a tiny tax increase that have the entire Tea Bagger Army fighting for them?

Yeah. Like that.

 

[T-Rexx]

It would be nice if government departments didn't get an automatic annual increase in their budgets.

They get that even though there isn't a real budget.

It's amazing.

Name one government agency - local, state, or federal - in the history of the USA which has ever gotten an "automatic annual increase" in its budget.

Even one. Even once.

Sorry, but I work in government, and that doesn't happen. Ever.

On the other hand, I can name hundreds of government agencies for you which get automatic biannual decreases in their budgets.

 

[evanrick]

kinda like the billionaires who are getting a tiny tax increase that have the entire Tea Bagger Army fighting for them?

Yeah. Like that.

we need to bring back the (censored).

Let them eat cake! they say.

 

[Kulindahr]

Complaining about a 15% increase in your income when working people are getting less than 2%.

Now that takes chutzpah.

Where was I complaining????

But FYI, it was the first COLA in twelve years.

 

[Jack Springer]

Name one government agency - local, state, or federal - in the history of the USA which has ever gotten an "automatic annual increase" in its budget.

Even one. Even once.

Sorry, but I work in government, and that doesn't happen. Ever.

On the other hand, I can name hundreds of government agencies for you which get automatic biannual decreases in their budgets.

Name some please.

 

[Lostlover]

Well, government can't even do that right. They send checks to dead people all the time.

Wow! The bipartisan magazine "Foreign Policy" shot down your zombie idea that private companies always do better than public companies.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articl...ie_economic_ideas_that_refuse_to_die?page=0,5

 

[Kulindahr]

Wow! The bipartisan magazine "Foreign Policy" shot down your zombie idea that private companies always do better than public companies.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articl...ie_economic_ideas_that_refuse_to_die?page=0,5

"Shot down"? Hardly. "Cast doubt" is far more accurate.

It did its best job in pointing out that privatization via establishment of government-mandated private monopolies is a crappy idea -- but any free-market economist could have told us that ahead of time. Its only remaining point is the current financial mess -- but that was government-encouraged.

In short, it doesn't address the issue at all, just looks at instances that weren't privatization in the sense free-market advocates mean in the first place, points out that they were bad -- which free-market advocates could have told us anyway -- and claims victory.

Using that sort of approach, I could "shoot down" all sorts of ideas -- starting with the one that we can rely on government to do anything at all in a useful or dependable fashion.

 

[Kulindahr]

Well, government can't even do that right. They send checks to dead people all the time.

If I pretended to be dead, do you think I could get a check?

 

[NineOfClubs]

If I pretended to be dead, do you think I could get a check?

No, but bears probably wouldn't attack you.

 

[MoltenRock III]

It would be nice if government departments didn't get an automatic annual increase in their budgets.

They get that even though there isn't a real budget.

It's amazing.

That includes those whacky socialist pigs like: fire departments, police departments, water & sewer treatment depts, Federal Aviation Authority (FAA), parks department, National Transportation Safety Board, highway dept, Commerce Dept, military, and the list goes on and on. Those "automatic" increases are based on two things:

1.) Inflation causes things to cost more (you know like concrete, handguns, hoses, salaries, et al...

2.) The USA is growing by 1.7% (+/-) per annum, meaning you have more people every year to cover with more cops, firemen, staffing to handle Social Security, et al...

Imagine that.... automatic increases because there's more people to protect, and things got more expensive.... woooooooo..... scary...... radical even.

 

[BostonPirate]

How is She planning on paying for those 250 dollar checks?