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HOW MUCH OF THE $13,000,000,000,000

DEFICIT DID YOU PERSONALLY CAUSE?

HOW MANY 'EAR-MARKS' DID YOU ADD?

HOW MUCH 'PORK' DID YOU 'PROFIT' FROM?

WHICH 'AMENDMENTS' DID YOU 'SNEAK IN'?

WHAT IS YOUR GROSS 'TAKE' FROM THE 'LOBBYISTS'?

HOW CAN YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT?

THE PIC? TOP 'POOP-DECK' IS 'POLITICIANS'

BOTTOM IS 'VOTERS' ... GET THE PICTURE?


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BUDGET CUTS?

© - Tom Hyland - 3/9/11

Today listened to CSPAN for a couple of Hours -
Debates before Voting on H.R.1 & Sen. Bills -
What a Total FARCE!
Waste of Time & Taxpayer’s Money!

Both Bills Only dealt with Non-Discretionary Funds.
A few Senators did admit that ALL should be on the Table -
Especially Defense Department -
Specifically The Pentagon!

I recently learned that IT Never Gives ANY Accounting
Of its Expenditures - IT has No GAAP In place at all!
General Accepted Accounting Principles -
In use by most Companies for DECADES!

CONGRESS has Known this for DECADES -
And Did Nothing about It!
Is ‘The Tail Wagging the Dog?’
WHAT A CROCK!

After hearing Enough of all the GUFF -
I came to a Conclusion - The term
‘Po-lit-i-cal Rhet-or-ic’ - 7 Syllables -
Should be Shortened to 2 Syllables - ‘Bull-Shit’!

Anyway, several of the Senators -
From both Parties ‘Harped’ on the Fact
That the ‘PAIN’ should be Felt -
Across The Board!

YEAH - EVERYONE BUT THEM!

Oh, the Chairman of The Budget for Congress
Did BRAG that he Cut a Big 5% last Year!
And this year was going for a Whopping 7%!
WHOOPEE!

ERGO - here are MY Suggested Budget Cuts:

1. CUT ALL CONGRESSIONAL SALARIES BY 10 %.
2. CUT ALL THEIR ‘SPECIAL’ RETIREMENT PLAN!
3. MAKE THEM LIVE ON MEAGER SSA BENEFITS LIKE US!
4. FREE ‘BOSTON BEAN SOUP’ - GONE!

5. FREE LIMO SERVICE &/OR GAS CARDS = GONE!
6. FREE JET-PLANE ‘JUNKETS’ - GONE!
7. EVERY DOLLAR OF ‘GRAFT’ REDUCES INCOME EQUALLY!
8. EVERY TIME ANY ONE OF THEM ENDS A SPEECH WITH:
“GOD BLESS AMERICA - GET A $10,000 FINE!

NEXT - MORE SERIOUS STUFF:

9. ENTIRE DEFENSE BUDGET FROZEN FOR 1 YEAR!
10. PENTAGON INSTALLS GAAP WITHIN 1 MONTH, OR:
ALL OFFICERS GET FINED $1, 000 PER WEEK!
11. AFGHANISTAN WAR STOPPED NOW!

12. AID $$,$$$,$$$,$$$ TO AFGHANISTAN - STOPPED!
13. AID TO PAKISTAN $$,$$$,$$$,$$$ - STOPPED!
14. AID TO IRAQ $$,$$$,$$$,$$$ - STOPPED!
15. ALL OTHER FOREIGN AID - CUT IN HALF!

16. ALL OIL DEPLETION ALLOWANCES - CUT!
17. ALL CORPORATE TAXES + 10 %!
18. ALL CEO ‘PERKS’ & ‘BONUSES’ - 50 % TAX!
19. ALL ‘LOBBYISTS’ TAXES - DOUBLED!
20. ALL ‘BAIL-OUTS’ REPAID IMMEDIATELY!

Without any Figures whatsoever - I will Bet -
‘A Dollar to a Donut’
That MY TOTALS Would EXCEED Both Stupid Bills!
And I Don’t even have a LAW DEGREE!

DEAR CONGRESS: “NO PAIN - NO GAIN!”

© - TKH.

  

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Reviewed by Regis Auffray
Reviewed on March 19, 2011
I see you face the same challenges in your neck of the woods (country), Tom. Thanks for sharing this. Love and peace to you,

Regis

Reviewed by Regis Schilken
Reviewed on March 14, 2011
Wonderful REASONABLE plan, but is Congress reasonable?

rege

Reviewed by Patrick Granfors
Reviewed on March 10, 2011
Your picture says it all. Patrick

Reviewed by Chantilly Lace (Reader)
Reviewed on March 10, 2011
Oh my...thats my TK kick ass darlin...as always a pure delight reading you sighhhhh....I certainly hope you are behaving..LOL..oooopsss did I say that ....I diddddddd...Hugss
Love Always,
Chanti Lace (The good girl)ssshhhhhh don't tell anyone that....sighhh

Reviewed by larry linville
Reviewed on March 10, 2011
Thanks for a thoughtful expression of the craziness of our day.

Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on March 10, 2011
CONGRESS has Known this for DECADES -
And Did Nothing about It!
Is ‘The Tail Wagging the Dog?’
WHAT A CROCK!

And what a Paradise for Fat Cat Lobbyists and Defense Department Contractors. Hardly a surprise that we pay $1,000 for a hammer or that a military contractor makes millions feeding our troops, who often don't even get the hot meal the contractor bills the government for.

I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for this Gravy Train to ever end.

Reviewed by Karen Palumbo
Reviewed on March 9, 2011
I go for the "Bull-shit" part! #1 Rule for "ALL" government employees is for them to pay their own taxes, their own homes, their own car/plane payments, their own trips, their own food, clothing, entertainment, bills, their own health insurance and anything else that pertains to them. Stop the annual automatic pay increase. STOP ALL AND I MEAN ALL SPENDING!!!!! We the people just can't afford it anymore. What a fantastic write, if only they would listen, huh?

Be always safe,
Karen

Reviewed by Ed Matlack
Reviewed on March 9, 2011
To cut this even shorter I will say: "Yeah, right, like any of that will happen..." e

Reviewed by Chip Bergeron
Reviewed on March 9, 2011
I like the cut of your jib, Tom. I think I would do a few other things:

1) Repeal, by constitutional amendment if necessary, the Supreme Court decision that forces government to treat corporations as individual persons.

2) Make ALL corporate and interest group lobbying illegal, a felony punishable by jail time for the lobbyists AND the people who hire them, and confiscation of property and monies of groups and corporations found guilty of lobbying.

Citizens as individuals could discuss upcoming legislation with their elected officials, but it would be illegal for special interest groups to lobby or to encourage individual citizens to lobby on their behalf. This will make legislators do their own homework and level the playing field.

3) Take money out of politics, for good, and severely punish legislators found profiting in any way from their positions. This could include the death penalty. Executing the worst offenders
would be in play.

You asnd I would raise hell, Tom, if we were made President for a day.

Cheers!

Chip Bergeron


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