Somebody FREAKIN shoot me!!!!

[DOOM]

Originally Posted by Vegas69

You have the time and money to be influential. Get to work.....

X2!!!

[GregWeld]

Romney has time and money -- look what that got him?!?!

[IMPALA MAN]

1. For people getting unemployment: Take all of the job postings (be it private and government) and require say 25 or 50 a week to be applied for by the unemployed. This would be required in order for your benefit check to be issued.

2. For people getting disability: I watch people every day that are in a wheelchair, go to work. There is a local business in my area that employ the blind. We once had them help counting at inventory....they were more accurate than the employees that had their eyesight!!!! So let's take the disabled, yes even the "obese" ones and give them a position. If you can cart your lazy butt to Walmart, you can cart your butt to work. There are people that are truly disabled. That is not who I am addressing. I am however addressing the deadbeat mooches, that hunt, fish, play sports, etc and claim disability. You know who you are!

3. For taxes: FLAT TAX!!! Very simple it's a magic word called proportional. EVERYONEpays the same percent. Read the good book. It says 10% of what you make goes to the Lord. Not 12% for some and 4% for others. Taxes should be the same way.

4. For Government Spending: make the government a business and ran like a business. We all know if we ran our business like the government, we would have went broke within the first year!

The chances of all of this happening.....did you ever hear that snowball survival story??

Summary:
Deadbeats get off your can and pull your weight. Until then you are nothing more than a mooch.

Government officials, start treating it like your own business, or risk loosing your pay and LIFELONG benefits!

Unemployed, start being a part of the solution instead of all of the problem. You too are a mooch, unless you are making every attempt to get work.

Life is not always a cake walk. Start manning up and be Americans instead a bunch of mooches!!!!

My 2 cents

[GregWeld]

I think Sieg mentioned the amount of fire equipment that was responding to a known town drunk....

I have mentioned that when you "MUST" budget - that things change because people start to actually dig into what they can do with and what they can do without....

Today I find an article that incorporates what Sieg pointed out - and what is, to me a way to look and see what you can do with a budget. When you read the headline - you're appalled -- then when you read the facts - it's not so bad - because "most" of the fire calls at this station ARE NOT fire related.... Makes sense to me...

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/50126062/n.../#.UMNgZKWhwwE

[Flash68]

Impala Man... I would vote for you.

[Bucketlist2012]

You gotta love that when the Politicians don't get their way , the first things they cry about cutting is the Police,Fire and Education...

You will be robbed, your house will burn down, and OMG, the poor children...

Never a mention of cutting government waste...Only the "fear" services...

[GregWeld]

All governments - big or small - only seem to have ever learned how to ADD... they can never balance a budget... They never cut ANYTHING out unless forced to do so... If they have a SURPLUS... they immediately vote to spend said surplus on some program or other... and that program has future costs which are never addressed.

It's like building roads.... they have an ongoing cost to maintain etc. THAT part is never in the original projections etc.


According to the Survey of Income and Program Participation conducted by the U.S. Census, well over 100 million Americans are enrolled in at least one welfare program run by the federal government. Many are enrolled in more than one. That is about a third of the entire population of the country. Sadly, that figure does not even include Social Security or Medicare. Today the federal government runs almost 80 different “means-tested welfare programs”, and almost all of those programs have experienced substantial growth in recent years.

[EBMC]

Originally Posted by IMPALA MAN

1. For people getting unemployment: Take all of the job postings (be it private and government) and require say 25 or 50 a week to be applied for by the unemployed. This would be required in order for your benefit check to be issued.

2. For people getting disability: I watch people every day that are in a wheelchair, go to work. There is a local business in my area that employ the blind. We once had them help counting at inventory....they were more accurate than the employees that had their eyesight!!!! So let's take the disabled, yes even the "obese" ones and give them a position. If you can cart your lazy butt to Walmart, you can cart your butt to work. There are people that are truly disabled. That is not who I am addressing. I am however addressing the deadbeat mooches, that hunt, fish, play sports, etc and claim disability. You know who you are!

3. For taxes: FLAT TAX!!! Very simple it's a magic word called proportional. EVERYONEpays the same percent. Read the good book. It says 10% of what you make goes to the Lord. Not 12% for some and 4% for others. Taxes should be the same way.

4. For Government Spending: make the government a business and ran like a business. We all know if we ran our business like the government, we would have went broke within the first year!

The chances of all of this happening.....did you ever hear that snowball survival story??

Summary:
Deadbeats get off your can and pull your weight. Until then you are nothing more than a mooch.

Government officials, start treating it like your own business, or risk loosing your pay and LIFELONG benefits!

Unemployed, start being a part of the solution instead of all of the problem. You too are a mooch, unless you are making every attempt to get work.

Life is not always a cake walk. Start manning up and be Americans instead a bunch of mooches!!!!

My 2 cents

I agree Impala man, thats why I thought there was a small glimmer of hope if we elected a "business man" I would much rather have Romney balance my checkbook than Obama! Oh well...
From what I've seen in my 40+ years on this planet is that it has somehow become acceptable to many people to accept as many handouts as possible. No one seems to be embarrassed about it and actually brags about the various ways they get "free" money. Kids grow up in this environment, don't know any better and think its perfectly normal to live like that. (well, I guess in todays world it is.) and the cycle continues.....

[camsdad]

Originally Posted by IMPALA MAN

1. For people getting unemployment: Take all of the job postings (be it private and government) and require say 25 or 50 a week to be applied for by the unemployed. This would be required in order for your benefit check to be issued.

2. For people getting disability: I watch people every day that are in a wheelchair, go to work. There is a local business in my area that employ the blind. We once had them help counting at inventory....they were more accurate than the employees that had their eyesight!!!! So let's take the disabled, yes even the "obese" ones and give them a position. If you can cart your lazy butt to Walmart, you can cart your butt to work. There are people that are truly disabled. That is not who I am addressing. I am however addressing the deadbeat mooches, that hunt, fish, play sports, etc and claim disability. You know who you are!

3. For taxes: FLAT TAX!!! Very simple it's a magic word called proportional. EVERYONEpays the same percent. Read the good book. It says 10% of what you make goes to the Lord. Not 12% for some and 4% for others. Taxes should be the same way.

4. For Government Spending: make the government a business and ran like a business. We all know if we ran our business like the government, we would have went broke within the first year!

The chances of all of this happening.....did you ever hear that snowball survival story??

Summary:
Deadbeats get off your can and pull your weight. Until then you are nothing more than a mooch.

Government officials, start treating it like your own business, or risk loosing your pay and LIFELONG benefits!

Unemployed, start being a part of the solution instead of all of the problem. You too are a mooch, unless you are making every attempt to get work.

Life is not always a cake walk. Start manning up and be Americans instead a bunch of mooches!!!!

My 2 cents

While I mostly agree here I see a potential problem with item # 1 & 4.

#1 IMO While I do agree that there are many folks that are slackers and moochers looking for a free hand out of any kind even though they are capable of contributing to society, "I got them 2nd and 3rd generation on the other side of my family" I have personally witnessed 1st hand the psychological toll it takes on someone who has worked hard all their life, moved up the corporate chain, became the household bread winner only to loose their job due to the corporation cutting back so those higher up can keep their bling bling. This particular individual I'm thinking of did acquire another similar type job (Medical field) a year and a half later only to have their 40hr a week job cut in hrs down to we will call you when we need you status. Yes this individual does receive unemployment and does apply to at least 5 job every day in a 60 mile radius of their residence. I have seen the list.
So based on these statistics, this individual has applied for approximately 1300 jobs in the last year alone. From what I understand their primary problem with not acquiring a good job or a frekin job of any kind in their field is that they are not Bi-lingual.
So from what I understand here is now you have to speak Spanish fluently and English is secondary. WTF is wrong with this picture.
When did it become mandatory to speak Spanish as a primary national language here in the US?


#4 If the Govt was ran like a Business or in its case a Corporation, the problem I see is the "Leaders" Pres, Congress, Senate, House, ext...would give themselves Enormously HUGE Bonus's at the end of each year and there would no longer be any form of elections. We the people would no longer have a say in our government.
In addition, if they can not balance their budget, lol! They will piss on us honest hard working back breaking tax paying little folk some more.

Just venting my thoughts a bit.

[IMPALA MAN]

One suggestion I had for the food stamp issue was government stores. They would be stores that transportation would be provided to if needed. These stores would carry food and "necessities" ONLY. This means no steaks, no brand name Mac n cheese, no brand name anything. No microwaveable popcorn, no beef jerky, no ready made meals. You want Mac n cheese, melt the cheese, and add it to the milk, butter and macaroni available at the government store.
I know these people don't want to feel embarrassed by going to these stores, well wake up. YOU'RE ON WELFARE PEOPLE. DO YOU NOT HAVE ANY PRIDE!! You have no problem recieving a check from hard working people, so the excuse about being embarrassed doesn't fly.

Also, if I ran for president and by some slim chance a good majority of the deadbeats didn't vote and I got elected, I'm sure at least one deadbeat would assassinate me and probably pay for the ammunition with my tax money!