Sunday, August 15, 2010

Weekend Newsbites: Sat. & Sun., August 14 & 15, 2010


Well, I'm not really in the mood for newsbites today; my best friend's dad - a guys who was one of my "second fathers" - passed away on Friday.

Still... I'll give it a shot.
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William R. Barker said...

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38536

In the dog days of August, with temperatures in D.C. rising above 100 degrees, Nancy Pelosi called the House back to Washington to enact legislation that could not wait until September.

Purpose: Vote $26 billion to prevent layoffs of state, municipal and county employees whose own governments had decided they had to be let go if they were to meet their constitutional duty to balance their books.

Workers their own governments thought expendable, Congress decided were so essential, it borrowed another 26 thousand million dollars from China to keep them on state and local payrolls.

A nation whose national debt is approaching the size of its gross national product, that goes abroad to borrow money to keep non-essential workers on government payroll is a nation on the way down and out.

* AGREED.

And anyone who thinks this Obama party is ever going to cull the armies of tens of millions of government workers or scores of millions of government beneficiaries to put America's house in order is deluding himself.

(*NOD*)

* HELL... YOU KNOW THAT OBAMA AND THE DEMS WOULD LIKE NOTHING MORE THAN TO "LEGALIZE" MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL ALIENS AND ADD THEM DIRECTLY TO THOSE WELFARE ROLLS THEY'RE PRESENTLY TECHNICALLY INELIGIBLE TO BENEFIT FROM DIRECTLY!

Which party does the American Federation of Teachers; the National Education Association; and the American Federation of State, Municipal and County Employees usually contribute to, work for, vote for? At which of the two party conventions are teachers and government employees hugely over-represented?

Consider, too, the states deepest in debt and facing the largest cuts in employee ranks, pay and benefits: California, Illinois, New York. In these states, public employees earn at least $10,000 per year more in pay and benefits than the average America worker, who is bailing them out. Hence, we have a situation where private sector workers in Middle America are being taxed, their children being driven ever deeper into debt to China, so government employees who have greater job security than they do, and earn more in pay and benefits than they will ever earn, can stay in Fat City.

What Pelosi & Co. were saying with that $26 billion bailout this week is, "We are going to protect our own."

Which is why either Obama, Pelosi, Reid & Co. go, or we are gone.

August 15, 2010 at 12:13 PM
William R. Barker said...

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/home_top_stories/20100813_Philadelphia_Housing_Authority_chief_Carl_Greene_facing_foreclosure.html

The mortgage foreclosure crisis has claimed an unlikely victim: Carl R. Greene, executive director of the Philadelphia Housing Authority (PHA).

Wells Fargo Bank has foreclosed on Greene's $615,035 condominium in the upscale Naval Square development in the city's Schuylkill section.

In a lawsuit filed July 27, Wells Fargo said the amount in dispute was $386,685.22.

Greene, 53, runs the nation's fourth-largest public housing agency and is one of the highest-paid public officials in the city. His salary is $306,370, and last year he got a $44,188 bonus.

* YA KNOW, IT'S BAD ENOUGH THAT THE INMATES ARE RUNNING THE ASYLUM... BUT TO HAVE SUCH INCOMPETENT INMATES...

(*SIGH*)

August 15, 2010 at 12:58 PM

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