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The GOP needs to look at this poll and take heed, NOW! ! If not, they will soon cease to exist as a viable party.
Rasmussen Reports: "73% of GOP Voters Say Congressional Republicans Have Lost Touch With Their Base."
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Saturday, October 24, 2009
HOW GUBMINT WORKS
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This is just too good not to share .....
Gubmint and How Gubmint Works
Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert. Congress said, "Someone may steal from it at night." So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job.
Then Congress said, "How does the watchman do his job without instruction?" So they created a planning department and hired two people, one person to write the instructions, and one person to do time studies.
Then Congress said, "How will we know the night watchman is doing the tasks correctly?" So they created a Quality Control department and hired two people. One to do the studies and one to write the reports.
Then Congress said, "How are these people going to get paid?" So They created the following positions, a time keeper, and a payroll officer, Then hired two people.
Then Congress said, "Who will be accountable for all of these people?" So they created an administrative section and hired three people, an Administrative Officer, Assistant Administrative Officer, and a Legal Secretary.
Then Congress said, "We have had this command in operation for one Year and we are $18,000 over budget, we must cutback overall cost."
So they laid off the night watchman.
NOW slowly, let it sink in.
Quietly, we go like sheep to slaughter.
Does anybody remember the reason given for the establishment of
the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY..... during the Carter Administration?
Anybody?
Anything?
No?
Didn't think so!
Bottom line. We've spent several hundred billion dollars in support of
an agency...the reason for which not one person who reads this can remember!
Ready??
It was very simple...and at the time, everybody thought it very appropriate.
The Department of Energy was instituted on 8-04-1977.
TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.
Hey, pretty efficient, huh???
AND NOW IT'S 2009 -- 32 YEARS LATER -- AND THE BUDGET FOR THIS "NECESSARY" DEPARTMENT IS AT $24.2 BILLION A YEAR. THEY HAVE 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND APPROXIMATELY 100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES; AND LOOK AT THE JOB THEY HAVE DONE! THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD AND SAY, "WHAT WAS I THINKING?"
Ah, yes -- good ole bureaucracy.
AND, NOW, WE ARE GOING TO TURN THE BANKING SYSTEM, HEALTH CARE, AND THE AUTO INDUSTRY OVER TO THE SAME GOVERNMENT?
HELLOOO! Anybody Home?
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This is just too good not to share .....
Gubmint and How Gubmint Works
Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert. Congress said, "Someone may steal from it at night." So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job.
Then Congress said, "How does the watchman do his job without instruction?" So they created a planning department and hired two people, one person to write the instructions, and one person to do time studies.
Then Congress said, "How will we know the night watchman is doing the tasks correctly?" So they created a Quality Control department and hired two people. One to do the studies and one to write the reports.
Then Congress said, "How are these people going to get paid?" So They created the following positions, a time keeper, and a payroll officer, Then hired two people.
Then Congress said, "Who will be accountable for all of these people?" So they created an administrative section and hired three people, an Administrative Officer, Assistant Administrative Officer, and a Legal Secretary.
Then Congress said, "We have had this command in operation for one Year and we are $18,000 over budget, we must cutback overall cost."
So they laid off the night watchman.
NOW slowly, let it sink in.
Quietly, we go like sheep to slaughter.
Does anybody remember the reason given for the establishment of
the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY..... during the Carter Administration?
Anybody?
Anything?
No?
Didn't think so!
Bottom line. We've spent several hundred billion dollars in support of
an agency...the reason for which not one person who reads this can remember!
Ready??
It was very simple...and at the time, everybody thought it very appropriate.
The Department of Energy was instituted on 8-04-1977.
TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.
Hey, pretty efficient, huh???
AND NOW IT'S 2009 -- 32 YEARS LATER -- AND THE BUDGET FOR THIS "NECESSARY" DEPARTMENT IS AT $24.2 BILLION A YEAR. THEY HAVE 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND APPROXIMATELY 100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES; AND LOOK AT THE JOB THEY HAVE DONE! THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD AND SAY, "WHAT WAS I THINKING?"
Ah, yes -- good ole bureaucracy.
AND, NOW, WE ARE GOING TO TURN THE BANKING SYSTEM, HEALTH CARE, AND THE AUTO INDUSTRY OVER TO THE SAME GOVERNMENT?
HELLOOO! Anybody Home?
Friday, October 9, 2009
OBAMA GETS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
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Now if this isn't the funniest thing we've heard in a LONG time! Barack Obama gets the Nobel Prize for Peace for what? Doing nothing! ! He was nominated within just 12 days after taking office! The deadline for nominations was February 1.
Ok, for all the libs out there who think this is justified, name one, just ONE thing he has done for peace................go ahead, I'll wait......................(crickets chirping)..........................(more crickets chirping)............. That's right, they can't! !
The ONLY thing he does for the world is to apologize for America and generally bad mouthing the U.S. for our past actions while bowing down to the dictators of the world. He was awarded for his weakness and attacks against his own country!
I am NOT in the least a Jimmy Carter fan, however, he did more to earn his Nobel Peace Prize than Barack Obama has. Obama earned the prize over his "potential" of creating world peace. This decision by the Nobel folks more-or-less renders all previous Peace-Prize winners a joke...well when you think of some of the previous ones like Carter and Al Gore, it's a joke anyway. AND, the same for any future peace prize winners.
(On a side note, I just wanted everyone to know that the Vatican called me today and told me that I am now a Saint! ! Yep, that's right, they told me that because I'm a Christian, generally a good person, and someday I will die, so I have the "potential" of being a saint, so they just went ahead and confired sainthood on me today!)
Now what will the Nobel Peace Prize folks do when his "potential" does not pan out? Will they take the prize away from him? WOW! !...........I hope if I don't pan out for the Vatican, that I still get to keep my sainthood status!
Now if this isn't the funniest thing we've heard in a LONG time! Barack Obama gets the Nobel Prize for Peace for what? Doing nothing! ! He was nominated within just 12 days after taking office! The deadline for nominations was February 1.
Ok, for all the libs out there who think this is justified, name one, just ONE thing he has done for peace................go ahead, I'll wait......................(crickets chirping)..........................(more crickets chirping)............. That's right, they can't! !
The ONLY thing he does for the world is to apologize for America and generally bad mouthing the U.S. for our past actions while bowing down to the dictators of the world. He was awarded for his weakness and attacks against his own country!
I am NOT in the least a Jimmy Carter fan, however, he did more to earn his Nobel Peace Prize than Barack Obama has. Obama earned the prize over his "potential" of creating world peace. This decision by the Nobel folks more-or-less renders all previous Peace-Prize winners a joke...well when you think of some of the previous ones like Carter and Al Gore, it's a joke anyway. AND, the same for any future peace prize winners.
(On a side note, I just wanted everyone to know that the Vatican called me today and told me that I am now a Saint! ! Yep, that's right, they told me that because I'm a Christian, generally a good person, and someday I will die, so I have the "potential" of being a saint, so they just went ahead and confired sainthood on me today!)
Now what will the Nobel Peace Prize folks do when his "potential" does not pan out? Will they take the prize away from him? WOW! !...........I hope if I don't pan out for the Vatican, that I still get to keep my sainthood status!
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