“All government spending expands twenty percent faster than the money allocated.”

- Federal Programs Funding Rule #1:

“Always request twice as much as you need, to avoid efficiency problems, and cover first round overruns.”

- Federal Funding Usage Rule #1:

“Always spend all funds allocated plus 20%. Unspent funds are a waste of resource, and makes it harder to go back for more next year.”

- Federal Work Process Rule #1:

“Government work expands to fill the time alloted plus 50%. All government programs are expected to overrun. Finishing on time, in budget, is considered obsessive, counter-productive planning.”

- Federal Bidding Rule #1:

“Always select the lowest bidder to insure future work, and rework of existing projects, and second round rebuy of defective materials, which also allows a natural expansion of all projects.”

- Federal Bidding Rule #2:

“Why buy just one of something when you can have two for twice as much.”

- Federal Congressional Project Rule #1:

“It takes 25 minutes to vote for a 150 Billion dollar project, which will pass quickly because no one understands it, but at least 4 months to decide on 25 thousand for toilet paper supply’s for Congressional bathrooms, which everyone can understand.”

- Bang

Everytime they get ‘extra’ money it is aqn excuse to open up more entitlement programs or increase spending to entitlement programs that are wasteful.

Want to start reduce spending, start auditing these programs, start auditing wasteful programs and if they don’t seem to be working, cut them out.

Yes, yes, before steve comes in here and spouts about the war, that too will reduce the spending, BUT only after we have finished our objective and withdraw like planned…not cut and run.

“Lord, I apologize and please be with the starving pygmies down in New Guinea. Amen.”

It seems to me that having debt free money would make them more likely to blow it simply because they wouldn’t have to justify deficit spending. What do they care? They didn’t have to work for it.

Sanity,
I have gone through economic down turns (I lived through Jimmy Carters Presidency) and have been through bankruptcy with Eastern Airlines I had 15 years with them and had to continue to support my family with bills and house payment. Yes I applied to other Airlines but most were having cash flow problems at that time so I worked at a job that I hated until I could figure out where I wanted my career to go.

Most of the people that are making minimum wages are just starting out in the work place this is where kids start to learn work ethics and some skills. Most of these people do not stay in the minimum wage area some move on to other jobs and some through good work ethics get raises. If you are only capable of making minimum wage you can’t afford children so don’t have them and expect the taxpayers to foot the bill.

I have had to move from the Seattle area to Atlanta to Portland OR. To Phoenix and back to Atlanta after Eastern Airlines back to Seattle then by way of Austin TX to the Atlanta area again. Some of these moves were by myself and some with a family but none of it was easy and like I said before working two jobs at times. Because sometimes you have to follow the money depending on your career “Choices are hard but the freedom to make those decisions were mine”. Right or wrong they were my decisions and I did not expect anyone else to have to pay for any wrong decisions.

We need to drop the PC term “Homeless” they are BUM’S (Urban Outdoorsmen) they are drug addicts and alcoholics that made there choice I have seen them in every city. For the very few that circumstances happen to there are charities and churches and what about family that is not the Federal Governments job to be in the charity business.

In the decades of the War On Poverty that percentage of the population has not changed it was about 10% of the population and it is still about 10% of the population. We no the Liberals have created a dependency class of people that can not do for themselves just look at New Orleans. They sat there like baby birds in a nest saying you have to help me where is the Government that is the Liberal legacy.

He is right that economic down turns have alot to do with this, especially in Michigan where we have had multiple plant closing and the Airlines threatening bankruptsy along with strikes and union standoffs.

It is also how the the mendian income is set up that determines who is poor, who is mid and who is well off..ect. If I was to follow that program, then I also would be placed in the ‘poor’ level. My case is because of my one income supporting 4 people, but that is MY choice, since it was mutually agreed that my wife would stay home with the children so they have a full-time parent and not a full-time daycare raising them.

Again, that is my choice, and I live with that, but there are many others out there that do not have a choice that have had economic downturns (plant closing, loss of jobs, ect) or have had the break up of a family unit by one going to jail as tommy noted or in divorce where the mother is now faced with children and no husband/boyfriend.

There are always factors. We do not have the amount of homeless we have for no reason. Events and situations have made them that way for the most part, and no, millions of homeless was not because of drug use.

I do not agree with democrats that howl everytime something is not funded ot the maximum amount though. Just because it gets a smaller increase fro mthe previous budget, does not mean it is a cut, it means it is not getting the maximum increase they want.

I also think we need to get out of the entitlement mindset. The Government is not there to take care of us, it is there to protect us.

We should investigate thoroughly wasteful spending, have audits on the most expensive programs, move to a flat tax, down size or get rid of the IRS, and revamp the programs like medicare that concentrate on getting people out of that system and back on thier feet.

You post a lot of false accusations as if they are facts, tommy. Rather sophmoric of you because you have be confronted on this behavior before. Why don’t you learn?

If rich Americans are so disloyal that they would move their wealth overseas, they had better be right behind it. America for Americans.

Glad to hear we both agree that Soros is disloyal! I was starting to worry that we had no common ground.

I wouldn’t blame them one bit.