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Trump Considering Cutting Government Budget by 10%, Federal Workforce by 20%
Trump promises the moon and the stars, but I at least like the direction of this claim.
Making good on a promise to slash government, President-elect Trump has asked his incoming team to pursue spending and staffing cuts. Insiders said that the spending reductions in some departments could go as high as 10 percent and staff cuts to 20 percent, numbers that would rock Washington if he follows through. At least two so-called "landing teams" in Cabinet agencies have relayed the call for cuts as part of their marching orders to shrink the flab in government.Looks like the Trump transition teams are big fans of our GAINZZZ philosophy. I nominate Sixkiller for Secretary of Deadlifts and Broseidon for National Squat Advisor.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: johnd01 at January 17, 2017 02:01 PM (ukNFU)
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Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 17, 2017 02:03 PM (4ErVI)
"They didn't. One o' those Ace-O-Spades guys got tired and decided to lay down. That's 'is schadenboner..."
Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at January 17, 2017 02:03 PM (9krrF)
Posted by: PJ at January 17, 2017 02:04 PM (SwhYZ)
A man can dream, can't he?
Posted by: sans_sheriff at January 17, 2017 02:04 PM (NbUJb)
Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at January 17, 2017 02:04 PM (Jcg9Q)
Posted by: Roy at January 17, 2017 02:04 PM (VndSC)
Posted by: Property values in Northern Virginia at January 17, 2017 02:05 PM (kTF2Z)
So this. THIS. Is the lefty resistance we're supposed to be cringing over?
One
one-shot musical song-and-dance man, one washed-up whale of a Bush-era
film-maker that can't fill a Walgreen's photo booth with his latest
stuff, one PR-made ex-cable starlet with a history of child abuse, one
late-night also-also-also ran from Canada, and a commie so obvious that
the Obama administration couldn't keep his job with Democrat majorities
in both houses?
This is what's comin' for us?
This collection of has-beens and never-wases, loose screws and future trivia question subjects?
It can't be THIS easy.
Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at January 17, 2017 02:05 PM (nd1zx)
Posted by: USNtakim at January 17, 2017 02:05 PM (hMqvx)
Beijing's chief climate negotiator, Xie Zhenhua, talks down fears that joint leadership shown by China and the US will be reversed under new president
China's chief climate negotiator has attempted to calm fears that Donald Trump's arrival in the White House will spell disaster for the fight against climate change.
The Chinese read that "fake news" in the New York Times from a while back, and come away thinking happy Climate thoughts.
Posted by: Robby Mook at January 17, 2017 02:05 PM (e8kgV)
They went unfilled for a long time providing evidence that they could be unnecessary.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth proud son of a Marine at January 17, 2017 02:05 PM (1me8P)
Posted by: joncelli, Longbow Afficianado and Phalangist at January 17, 2017 02:05 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: @votermom @vm at January 17, 2017 02:06 PM (Om16U)
Cut the EPA workforce to what it was in 1969, now that our air and water are cleaner.
Posted by: Furious George at January 17, 2017 02:06 PM (77i7V)
Maybe just maybe.....there is a God.
Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2017 02:06 PM (qUNWi)
That is what my "Civil Cervix" experience tells me will happen.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 17, 2017 02:06 PM (ujg0T)
I hope he fires so many people that the rest of the drones go on strike, then he can replace them as needed while they demonstrate just how little they are missed.
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Gluten Free Souls at January 17, 2017 02:06 PM (a3sfz)
If he does that, it will be more than any President - ever.
Posted by: Clutch Cargo at January 17, 2017 02:06 PM (RHEDC)
Posted by: garrett at January 17, 2017 02:06 PM (xd0pN)
Just awesome. If he can actually follow through I'm going to be ecstatic.
Posted by: MTF at January 17, 2017 02:06 PM (X4ZNp)
I nominate Sixkiller for Secretary of Deadlifts and Broseidon for National Squat Advisor.
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you'll need a decent Judge on the BENCH!!!
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at January 17, 2017 02:06 PM (toH8T)
"#Putin now on state TV: @realDonaldTrump has been with the most beautiful women in the world, so why would he need prostitutes in Moscow?"
https://twitter.com/Amie_FR/status/821349475004350464
Posted by: @votermom @vm at January 17, 2017 02:07 PM (Om16U)
I suppose it's a start.
So, repeated every year of his presidency? That might just work.
You'd have to rebalance things a bit later; the military doesn't need 80%, but the EPA and IRS need at least twice that...
Posted by: mikeski at January 17, 2017 02:07 PM (iKu60)
So if he shutters the IRS and EPA...how many is that?
Oh and the Dept. of Ed. There ya go!
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 17, 2017 02:07 PM (nIGPZ)
Posted by: Furious George at January 17, 2017 02:06 PM (77i7V)
FTFY
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 17, 2017 02:07 PM (8hICw)
Posted by: @votermom @vm at January 17, 2017 02:07 PM (Om16U)
That is what my "Civil Cervix" experience tells me will happen.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 17, 2017 02:06 PM (ujg0T)
There are many ways to skin a hobo.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 17, 2017 02:07 PM (KUaJL)
Posted by: DanInMN at January 17, 2017 02:07 PM (15ZVX)
Posted by: The Fake News Media at January 17, 2017 02:08 PM (X7E8f)
Posted by: Former PATCO members at January 17, 2017 02:08 PM (VndSC)
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at January 17, 2017 02:08 PM (oGRue)
Posted by: @votermom @vm at January 17, 2017 02:08 PM (Om16U)
Posted by: John Nada - Formerly #NeverHillary at January 17, 2017 02:08 PM (pCUr3)
Posted by: Astronaut Achmed at January 17, 2017 02:08 PM (laQYo)
Posted by: BEN ROETHLESBURGER at January 17, 2017 02:08 PM (kTF2Z)
Posted by: garrett at January 17, 2017 02:08 PM (xd0pN)
Posted by: Property values in Northern Virginia at January 17, 2017 02:05 PM (kTF2Z)
I once read that 7 of the 10 richest counties in the country surround Washington DC.
I pray that someday that will be 7 of the 10 POOREST counties around DC.
Those scumsuckers can all go eat a bag of dicks.
Posted by: Country Boy - Stay Deplorable My Friends at January 17, 2017 02:09 PM (Jcg9Q)
So if he shutters the IRS and EPA...how many is that?
Oh and the Dept. of Ed. There ya go!
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 17, 2017 02:07 PM (nIGPZ)
Suggest changing "willowed" to "cannibaled"?
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 17, 2017 02:09 PM (8hICw)
But Donald Trump, who has taken over multiple businesses, streamlined them, and made them more efficient -- and survive -- might actually do it with the White House, at least. Just not hiring on all those no-work Czar positions would represent notable shrinkage from the Obama years.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2017 02:09 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at January 17, 2017 02:09 PM (eq3hJ)
asked his incoming team to pursue spending and staffing cuts.
I wonder if he'll use my big snowstorm "non essential personnel" trick?
Posted by: tu3031 at January 17, 2017 02:09 PM (qJhUV)
During a commercial break on Rush Limbaugh I tuned to a local NPR station. They were a little upset about Philadelphia's new sweetened beverage tax. You see, this tax was to be levied not on the retailer or end consumer but on the distributor. The distributors have the chutzpah to pass this tax on rather than pay it themselves. They had a "tax expert" who claimed that the distributors and retailers would eventually pay some of it themselves rather than lose beverage sales. They cited Berkeley, California's beverage tax as an example. Evidently, their tax gets "shared" by distributor, retailer and consumer. Or so they said.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 17, 2017 02:09 PM (IqV8l)
Pro Tip : Don't let them get cold.
Posted by: garrett at January 17, 2017 02:08 PM (xd0pN)
Bleed them.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 17, 2017 02:09 PM (nIGPZ)
I would love to see that scene play out a few thousand time across the federal leviathan.
Posted by: Kreplach at January 17, 2017 02:09 PM (3Xxpy)
That will be a hell of a trick.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2017 02:10 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: WisRich at January 17, 2017 02:10 PM (hdpay)
If he does half of that, it would be amazing. The Bureaucrats and petite
functionaries won't have it, though. Remember when Former President
Barack H. Obama shut down parks and monuments to make cost cutting as
painful as possible? First things these clowns will do is shut down VA
emergency rooms and anything else they can to hurt the general public,
because dammit every penny of those several trillion is essential!!!
I hope he fires so many people that the rest of the drones go on
strike, then he can replace them as needed while they demonstrate just
how little they are missed.
Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Gluten Free Souls at January 17, 2017 02:06 PM (a3sfz)
I remember that they had personal blocking people who tried to visit the monuments. Insane, showing serfs that goverment is there to fuck them.
Posted by: local news at January 17, 2017 02:10 PM (1isJI)
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Our plan if we win re-election is spending increases.
Spending increases and amnesty.
Wait...why aren't you people voting for us?
Posted by: The Republicans in 2006 at January 17, 2017 02:11 PM (X7E8f)
Posted by: steevy at January 17, 2017 02:11 PM (r/0kC)
But, really, it can't be evenly distributed. Some departments need their current (or even greater) headcount, and some need much more than 20% cuts.
I can think of a few departments where at least 20% of the staff ought to be shipped off to Laredo and turned into Border Patrol at pension-point.
Posted by: JEM at January 17, 2017 02:11 PM (TppKb)
During a commercial break on Rush Limbaugh I tuned to a local NPR station. They were a little upset about Philadelphia's new sweetened beverage tax. You see, this tax was to be levied not on the retailer or end consumer but on the distributor. The distributors have the chutzpah to pass this tax on rather than pay it themselves. They had a "tax expert" who claimed that the distributors and retailers would eventually pay some of it themselves rather than lose beverage sales. They cited Berkeley, California's beverage tax as an example. Evidently, their tax gets "shared" by distributor, retailer and consumer. Or so they said.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 17, 2017 02:09 PM (IqV8l)
Taxes are always paid for by the end user, whether they know the tax exists or not. Period, full stop.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 17, 2017 02:11 PM (8hICw)
That will be a hell of a trick.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2017 02:10 PM (/tuJf)
Mexico's going to pay for everything.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 17, 2017 02:11 PM (nIGPZ)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT (Soon to be Obamaboro, VT) at January 17, 2017 02:11 PM (Fbj4h)
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at January 17, 2017 02:09 PM (eq3hJ)[i/]
Bingo. And the precedent for such moves is well established at the state level, even in lefty California, even by Democrat Governors.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 17, 2017 02:11 PM (ujg0T)
Posted by: Drider at January 17, 2017 02:12 PM (bdzyz)
Federal Employee: Yes!
Trump: You're fired.
Posted by: John Nada - Formerly #NeverHillary at January 17, 2017 02:12 PM (pCUr3)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2017 02:12 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: tu3031 at January 17, 2017 02:12 PM (qJhUV)
Posted by: Bosk at January 17, 2017 02:12 PM (n2K+4)
Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 17, 2017 02:12 PM (ujg0T)
This sounds like it could be a good way for Trump to ditch the worst of his opponents embedded in the bureaucracy: lay them of or at least transfer them out to someplace where their poisonous ideology can do less harm.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 17, 2017 02:13 PM (R+30W)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2017 02:13 PM (LRVnP)
What a fucking asshole. *Pardon my language to the ladies.*
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2017 02:13 PM (92kX2)
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The Federal "You're Fired" Act of 2017
Congress is going to have to double down on the Ibuprofen and Geritol.
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at January 17, 2017 02:13 PM (toH8T)
Posted by: brak at January 17, 2017 02:13 PM (guIHw)
This sounds like it could be a good way for Trump to ditch the worst of his opponents embedded in the bureaucracy: lay them of or at least transfer them out to someplace where their poisonous ideology can do less harm.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 17, 2017 02:13 PM (R+30W)
Layoffs are almost always seniority based. That is, the more senior, the more secure.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 17, 2017 02:13 PM (8hICw)
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at January 17, 2017 02:13 PM (oGRue)
Posted by: Vladimir L. at January 17, 2017 02:14 PM (oGRue)
Posted by: buzzsaw90
Soros is paying others to fling the feces instead.
Posted by: Roy at January 17, 2017 02:14 PM (VndSC)
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You don't tend to achieve much if you aim low to begin with.
Aim higher, baby! Higher and higher! Forget the goal to go to Mars, send us to Uranus!
Posted by: John Nada - Formerly #NeverHillary at January 17, 2017 02:14 PM (pCUr3)
Just telling the Departments they cannot have meetings in far-flung resort locations, but meet up on Skype would be a measurable savings.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2017 02:15 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 17, 2017 02:15 PM (0/EIm)
Posted by: Fritz at January 17, 2017 02:15 PM (2Mnv1)
Posted by: WisRich at January 17, 2017 02:10 PM (hdpay)
My dad said:
'one more time and I'm going to kick your ass.'
'take of those sunglasses when you talk to me.'
Take off your hat in the house'
'You're the oldest you should know better'
*backhands me off the kitchen chair*
'don't ever talk to your mother like that'
He was a motivator my dad was.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 17, 2017 02:15 PM (nIGPZ)
willered
"#Putin now on state TV: @realDonaldTrump has been with the most
beautiful women in the world, so why would he need prostitutes in
Moscow?"
https://twitter.com/Amie_FR/status/821349475004350464
Posted by: @votermom @vm at January 17, 2017 02:07 PM (Om16U)
Vlad is a smooth player.
Posted by: local news at January 17, 2017 02:15 PM (1isJI)
Shrug. I wouldn't have gone to Obama's inagurations. Heck I would likely not go to any of them, not being fond of parties.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2017 02:16 PM (39g3+)
This sounds like it could be a good way for Trump to ditch the worst of his opponents embedded in the bureaucracy: lay them of or at least transfer them out to someplace where their poisonous ideology can do less harm.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 17, 2017 02:13 PM (R+30W)
In general, Seniority is the biggest factor. But again, my history of looking at the "Civil Cervix" here in California is that reductions in personnel are achieved by:
1. "Phantom layoffs", where unfilled positions are "terminated" and thus money is "saved" from the budget, and then
2. A "hiring freeze" is imposed, as a few percentage amount of the Civil Cervix is retiring every year.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 17, 2017 02:16 PM (ujg0T)
https://www.facebook.com/Wimpcom/ videos/1205206762903814/
Veteran, who has not been identified, was left in tears on Thursday when Delaware animal shelter staffer shared the news. In September, he was in hospital after suffering a heart attack and was unable to care for his dogs when animal shelter stepped in. When he got out of hospital, his dogs had not yet been adopted but he needed more time to pay adoption fees. To his surprise, volunteer paid the fees and staff and volunteers donated toys, gift card for food and gas and other supplies.
Posted by: @votermom @vm at January 17, 2017 02:16 PM (Om16U)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 17, 2017 02:09 PM (IqV8l)
Taxes are always paid for by the end user, whether they know the tax exists or not. Period, full stop.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 17, 2017 02:11 PM (8hICw)
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Ignorant "tax expert". All, 100%, of the money in a retail transaction comes from the consumer. So the consumer pays the retailers costs, the distributors costs and the producers costs. All of those costs. Nothing else is possible, including "sharing" costs. Think about it.
This is how economically ignorant people think, which is why NPR (and the Democrat Party) employs them, I suppose.
Posted by: MTF at January 17, 2017 02:16 PM (X4ZNp)
Cut the DOE to zero, since it's replicated 50 times at the state level.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 17, 2017 02:16 PM (WDy4l)
Trump can't fire them.
I'm perfectly fine with Congress not attending the inaugural.
I'd also be perfectly fine, for partisan reasons, if theses individuals went home and cried in their Campari and soda for the next two years.
Particularly Dem Senators.
Posted by: JEM at January 17, 2017 02:16 PM (TppKb)
He better not steal my plan.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 17, 2017 02:16 PM (YEelc)
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at January 17, 2017 02:17 PM (toH8T)
Posted by: WisRich at January 17, 2017 02:17 PM (hdpay)
And Hillary will never be president of the United States. Which is a huge (or is that yuuge?) credit on the Trump Admin balance sheet.
Posted by: Blake at January 17, 2017 02:18 PM (qC1Sy)
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Fuck You Vlad!
Posted by: Anonymous Moscow Hooker at January 17, 2017 02:18 PM (oGRue)
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at January 17, 2017 02:13 PM (oGRue
That would be around 20% of House Democrats.
Fine, there seats can be given to people who actually care about the country.
Posted by: Jen at January 17, 2017 02:18 PM (wy1qp)
How does the saying go, shoot for the moon, even if you miss you'll land among the stars...
Or float forever alone in the soul-sucking, cold emptiness of space. But sure, let's go with that.
Posted by: LizLem at January 17, 2017 02:18 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Military Industrial Complex at January 17, 2017 02:18 PM (kpRPw)
I suspect that rather than any actual layoffs, there will be a "hiring
freeze" imposed, and we will get the reductions over the next few years
by retirement / attrition.
That is what my "Civil Cervix" experience tells me will happen.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 17, 2017 02:06 PM
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So Trump's is providing a "hiring diaphragm" for the "civil cervix". Feminists will be conflicted.
Posted by: irright at January 17, 2017 02:18 PM (pMGkg)
1. "Phantom layoffs", where unfilled positions are "terminated" and thus money is "saved" from the budget, and then
2. A "hiring freeze" is imposed, as a few percentage amount of the Civil Cervix is retiring every year.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 17, 2017 02:16 PM (ujg0T)
Wasn't there a story I saw where there is a federal law that a civil servant's salary can be reduced to zero? Do that enough times, and you might be talking real money. Aside from the fact that people will quite quickly catch on that they are not wanted.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2017 02:19 PM (92kX2)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 17, 2017 02:19 PM (X6fMO)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT (Soon to be Obamaboro, VT) at January 17, 2017 02:11 PM (Fbj4h)
You say that as though you think there's something wrong with it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2017 02:19 PM (LRVnP)
Well ok then. If that is all it takes, then I'm 'considering' buying the winning lottery ticket.
Show me the bodies! I wanna see bodies being thrown off the roof, out of 14th story windows; bodies hitting the floor, metaphorically speaking.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at January 17, 2017 02:19 PM (ACM1V)
You realize that might make Federal employment less attractive and force people into the private sector?
Oh wait, this isn't the WaPo site...
Posted by: JEM at January 17, 2017 02:19 PM (TppKb)
Posted by: GnuBreed at January 17, 2017 02:19 PM (iqbGz)
It's not about aiming, it's math. About 2/3 of federal spending is on entitlements which Trump says he won't touch. Of the discretionary budget, the military is by far the biggest part. Add in interest payments on all the money we have been borrowing and you are well over 80% of federal spending.
I know Trump has a habit of promising the moon and then dialing it back but this seems a bit much even for him. If he can deliver 3 or 4% that would be a big accomplishment.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2017 02:19 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2017 02:19 PM (qUNWi)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 17, 2017 02:19 PM (X6fMO)
punchline....'And DEEP too!'
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at January 17, 2017 02:19 PM (nIGPZ)
Wear disposable gloves to keep the fleas and chiggers from migrating.
Posted by: Fritz at January 17, 2017 02:19 PM (2Mnv1)
Still a good start, but don't let the liberals scream about death and everything when you are simply stopping the built in growth and shaving off some fat.
Posted by: Tommy at January 17, 2017 02:20 PM (TC0h/)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2017 02:20 PM (92kX2)
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at January 17, 2017 02:20 PM (fKWf6)
Mine's already got a venture fund spun up on Sand Hill, let me know if yours wants to come pitch.
Posted by: JEM at January 17, 2017 02:20 PM (TppKb)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 17, 2017 02:20 PM (IqV8l)
so cutting it by 10% would be probably making it stand still, or only
grow at 5%.
Good point. Zero baseline budgeting needs to start NOW!
Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 17, 2017 02:21 PM (YEelc)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2017 02:19 PM (92kX2)
There may be, but I said what was likely to happen, not what could happen.
Heck, just as a tiny tax on the billions (trillions?) of wire transfers of money to MX would finance "The Wall", a hiring freeze would achieve the personnel reductions by attrition over 4 years, let alone eight.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 17, 2017 02:21 PM (ujg0T)
Mine keeps picking up a broadsword and asking about the riddle of steel?
Posted by: Distracted drivin.... SQUIRREL! at January 17, 2017 02:21 PM (DVC2D)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 17, 2017 02:19 PM (X6fMO)
That Dick is going places! He's turning his life around.
Posted by: Shaedenboner's Proud Mother at January 17, 2017 02:21 PM (92kX2)
But, really, it can't be evenly distributed. Some departments need their current (or even greater) headcount, and some need much more than 20% cuts.
I can think of a few departments where at least 20% of the staff ought to be shipped off to Laredo and turned into Border Patrol at pension-point.
Posted by: JEM at January 17, 2017 02:11 PM (TppKb)
IRS would be a good start. Simplify the tax code, fire 80% of the gestapo cocksuckers. Then head over to Education. Fire 100%, sell the building or better yet convert it into a world class hospital for veterans. Interior, cut 80% and sell 80% of the Federal land west of the Mississippi, individual U.S. Citizens only. Head over to Homeland Security, TSA = privatized. Bye. Agriculture, shut down with maybe a few functions rolled into what's left of Interior. Labor? Shut down, functions returned to the states (if they want them.) HHS, HUD, 80% RIF, both rolled into Department of Giving Free Shit to People So they Don't Riot in the Street While We Figure Out Another Way.
Posted by: DanInMN at January 17, 2017 02:21 PM (15ZVX)
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at January 17, 2017 02:08 PM (oGRue)
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THIS.
And you cannot have a simple directive "to reduce staff by 10%." Take the VA. What will happen is that the reductions will be in docs and nurses, not in administrators and diversity counselors.
Likewise with hiring freezes. When a doc retires, you need to replace him. When the Human Resources Goon for Union Compliance retires, all you need is a nice cake and some hugs.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 17, 2017 02:22 PM (Nox3c)
Posted by: buzzsaw90 at January 17, 2017 02:13 PM (
Suggested edit.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 17, 2017 02:22 PM (kTF2Z)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 17, 2017 02:22 PM (mbhDw)
Most unions get their "rights" by negotiating a contract after labor actions: strikes or the threat of strike, etc. But, what about the federal workers? They should only have whatever protections the federal government allowed them to have.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 17, 2017 02:22 PM (R+30W)
Posted by: Bigbys Olive Fingers at January 17, 2017 02:23 PM (U9Fj6)
Mine's already got a venture fund spun up on Sand Hill, let me know if yours wants to come pitch.
Posted by: JEM
Been horizontal drilling with my schadenboner for the last month, sunk a few holes 3000+ feet deep and have some good producing wells, looking at some off-shore leases....
Posted by: Rick in SK at January 17, 2017 02:23 PM (/CIN4)
Posted by: Anonymous Moscow Hooker at January 17, 2017 02:18 PM (oGRue)
You missed the part of my statement where I said our Russian hookers are the best in the world!
Da?
Posted by: Vlad at January 17, 2017 02:23 PM (hdpay)
Posted by: Bigbys Olive Fingers at January 17, 2017 02:23 PM (U9Fj6)
https://twitter.com/Amie_FR/status/821349475004350464
Posted by: @votermom @vm at January 17, 2017 02:07 PM (Om16U)
Apparently he also said that he would not need Russian prostitutes, BUT if Trump did need them, Russian prostitutes are the best in the world!
Gotta love the Presidential PR move, hah. I feel like in principle as an American, I should resent Putin utterly trolling the White House. But all I can do is grin.
Three days to go...
Posted by: LizLem at January 17, 2017 02:23 PM (hvf9s)
The problem we face is this: as the Earth rotates, our schadenboners are sweeping the sky.
Will they last long enough to knock all those new Iridium satellites out of orbit, or will Trump do something to shrivel us all?
Posted by: JEM at January 17, 2017 02:23 PM (TppKb)
Heck, just as a tiny tax on the billions (trillions?) of wire transfers of money to MX would finance "The Wall", a hiring freeze would achieve the personnel reductions by attrition over 4 years, let alone eight.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 17, 2017 02:21 PM (ujg0T)
I am feeling magnanimous so here is a compromise: Hiring freeze overall, but shift the salary to $1 for every asshat who is an Obama appointee?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2017 02:23 PM (92kX2)
That being said, many of my neighbors further south down the 95 work in various gov fields. They are nervous, some are resume shopping frantically and I am experiencing a bit of schadenfreud. They have been awfully snooty and don't-give-a-damn about private sector jobs and things like the economy.
Posted by: Russkilitlover at January 17, 2017 02:23 PM (A8HiD)
He truly is amazing. Instead of allowing Earnest is last shining day in front of the press, he had to show up, and soak up all the adoration.
Of course, the fawning media will paint it as Obama's glowing send off to Earnest.
Posted by: Jen at January 17, 2017 02:24 PM (wy1qp)
Posted by: redbanzai at January 17, 2017 02:24 PM (9nCnN)
Posted by: name at January 17, 2017 02:24 PM (En9Fa)
Posted by: jwest at January 17, 2017 02:24 PM (Zs4uk)
Posted by: Ripley at January 17, 2017 02:24 PM (1BQGO)
We stand by to work with the American government.
- Roscunt America, LLC
Posted by: Roscunt Quality Assurance at January 17, 2017 02:24 PM (TppKb)
It was $1, an old law that the GOP is looking at enacting. Its a way, at least, of leveraging some people out of their jobs that need to go. That, plus a hiring freeze, plus eliminating unfilled jobs and you get a slow trickle out of the positions.
The problem is, unless you really cut things back, the next president can just rehire in a matter of weeks and we're back where you started.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2017 02:25 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 17, 2017 02:25 PM (IqV8l)
I can't wait to help Make America Swole Again.
Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at January 17, 2017 02:25 PM (oZ6kz)
Posted by: Robby Mook at January 17, 2017 02:25 PM (e8kgV)
I just came in my mouth a little.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 17, 2017 02:22 PM (mbhDw
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Aaaaaaaaaannnnddd here we go!
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 17, 2017 02:26 PM (kTF2Z)
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at January 17, 2017 02:26 PM (+DkXp)
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at January 17, 2017 02:26 PM (YMQt3)
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at January 17, 2017 02:26 PM (toH8T)
Posted by: deplorable shillelagh at January 17, 2017 02:26 PM (FIcZA)
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at January 17, 2017 02:27 PM (oGRue)
Posted by: name at January 17, 2017 02:24 PM (En9Fa)
I feel your pain, brother.
Posted by: Al Roker at January 17, 2017 02:27 PM (X6fMO)
Posted by: Charles Foster Kane at January 17, 2017 02:27 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Putin at January 17, 2017 02:27 PM (BrQrN)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT (Soon to be Obamaboro, VT) at January 17, 2017 02:11 PM (Fbj4h)
He's going to get them all!!
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 17, 2017 02:27 PM (493sH)
BREAKING: Donald Trump announces that in the first 100 days of his administration Michael Moore will be cut by 40 percent.
Developing...
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 17, 2017 02:27 PM (8ZskC)
We can help with that. Please check our website for available services.
- Roscunt America, LLC.
Posted by: Roscunt Quality Assurance at January 17, 2017 02:27 PM (TppKb)
His voice annoys me over the long run, but Smashing Pumpkins had a ton of great songs. And I learned to play Stevie Nick's "Landslide" from their cover version. It wasn't till after I learned it that I actually read the liner notes, where Corgan admitted he played it wrong.)
So, in honor of the brave Mr. Corgan, here's one of their greatest tunes (love the intro, featuring some of the sweetest guitar harmonics ever laid down on wax):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MElfYleGIVU
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? - I speak of the Pompatous of Love at January 17, 2017 02:27 PM (ul9CR)
just sayin
Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2017 02:19 PM (qUNWi)
Stop stealin' my schtick!
Posted by: Neal Degrass Tyson, trolling science sexually at January 17, 2017 02:27 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: John R.R.R. Lewis at January 17, 2017 02:27 PM (vtcmf)
Posted by: Chainsaw Al Dunlop at January 17, 2017 02:27 PM (DpOmP)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2017 02:27 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Voter dude at January 17, 2017 02:27 PM (ckRtw)
It was $1, an old law that the GOP is looking at enacting. Its a way, at least, of leveraging some people out of their jobs that need to go.
IIRC, it's called the "Holman Amendment" & it's real
Posted by: AltonJackson at January 17, 2017 02:27 PM (ZQfW9)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2017 02:25 PM (39g3+)
How about: Trump eliminates outright all federal agencies established by executive order. Congress passes a law forbidding executive orders dealing with bureaucracy and severely limiting their breadth outside of national emergency (and I mean wars.) You then let congress decide whether to bring back various depts.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2017 02:29 PM (92kX2)
That glow is just Cherenkov radiation.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 17, 2017 02:29 PM (YEelc)
Posted by: Jean at January 17, 2017 02:29 PM (vLRro)
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 17, 2017 02:29 PM (KUaJL)
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Posted by: Neal Degrass Tyson, trolling science sexually at January 17, 2017 02:27 PM (hvf9s)
Hah...speaking of whom...I added Neil to my Kardashian filter.
Works like a charm.
Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2017 02:29 PM (qUNWi)
FL shooter says he did it for ISIS, FBI says gee that can't be he doesn't have any shit on his computer.
He must not know what he is saying, so he's crazy. Can't be a terrorist attack Loretta told us so.
Maybe "Workplace Violence"
Posted by: Tommy at January 17, 2017 02:30 PM (TC0h/)
I think I just messed my pants
Posted by: name at January 17, 2017 02:24 PM (En9Fa)
I feel your pain, brother.
Posted by: Al Roker at January 17, 2017 02:27 PM
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What do you call Al Roker on a merry-go-round?
Shartnado.
Posted by: irright at January 17, 2017 02:30 PM (pMGkg)
The Trump train left the station some time ago.
And I really don't think that Hillary ticket in your hand will be eligible for a refund.
Sad!
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at January 17, 2017 02:30 PM (toH8T)
Posted by: Rick in SK at January 17, 2017 02:30 PM (/CIN4)
Is Trump going to be the best President since Coolidge?
Posted by: Doctor Cynic at January 17, 2017 02:30 PM (nkrB2)
The leftist AV Club is hyper-ventilating over Billy Corgan of Smashing
Pumpkins fame saying the media is out of touch with regular Americans
and defending Trump against the Fake News dossier.
hatWhatWhat? - I speak of the Pompatous of Love at January 17, 2017 02:27 PM (ul9CR)
That's unexpected. I'd have taken him to be a smarter-than-thou artsy type afraid of "Trump being an uncultured ass." Huh.
Posted by: General Zod at January 17, 2017 02:31 PM (Bdeb0)
Start with anybody added to the intel community during the past 8 years.
Posted by: john doesky at January 17, 2017 02:31 PM (7GvGz)
Posted by: dfbaskwill at January 17, 2017 02:31 PM (zllbf)
Works so well half my comment vanished.
Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2017 02:31 PM (qUNWi)
I'm sure payroll only represents a certain percentage of certain departments budgets.
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at January 17, 2017 02:32 PM (YMQt3)
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 17, 2017 02:29 PM (KUaJL)
Um, I think there's more in the budget than just employee salaries. Like a lot more.
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at January 17, 2017 02:32 PM (+DkXp)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 17, 2017 02:32 PM (8ZskC)
Update: Still not sick of it.
Further Update: Seeing a doctor* for this shadenboner that's lasted way too long. She's enjoying the winning as well.
Note - not a real doctor, but she plays one in my bed. Also my wife. Don't tell her.
Posted by: Memories at January 17, 2017 02:32 PM (mwcEF)
Amanda Palmer was quoted recently as saying that the Trump presidency will be really good for punk music. Of course she meant that people will channel TDS into beautiful anti-Trump protest music. Here's hoping instead we get some good new age Ramones style groups going!
Posted by: LizLem at January 17, 2017 02:32 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 17, 2017 02:32 PM (nBr1j)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 17, 2017 02:33 PM (NOIQH)
I need to limber my wrist up in order to make the appropriate wanking motions.
Posted by: alexthechick - I see you tree rats at January 17, 2017 02:33 PM (mf5HN)
Even that fat fuck Moore noticed. Why is this so hard, I thought the left were the free thinkers, non-dogmatic
Posted by: Jean at January 17, 2017 02:33 PM (vLRro)
Posted by: Fake News LLC at January 17, 2017 02:33 PM (TppKb)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2017 02:33 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Alfred Chandler at January 17, 2017 02:33 PM (DpOmP)
Is Trump going to be the best President since Coolidge?
Posted by: Doctor Cynic at January 17, 2017 02:30 PM (nkrB2)
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That remains to be seen. But it is interesting that Milo predicted Trump would be a lot like Coolidge just with more bombast.
Posted by: Independent George at January 17, 2017 02:34 PM (BDZWU)
Posted by: JEM at January 17, 2017 02:35 PM (TppKb)
I am guardedly pleased with this story.
Exit question: How many federal workers have placed the target on themselves by the way they've behaved toward Trump since he announced he was running?
Sucks for you guys, huh?
Posted by: Lizzy at January 17, 2017 02:35 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: GuyfromNH at January 17, 2017 02:35 PM (5zfq1)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 17, 2017 02:35 PM (ODxAs)
SCOTUS endorses my ruling that Preacher Curls don't violate the Establishment Clause.
Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at January 17, 2017 02:36 PM (oZ6kz)
Posted by: Colin at January 17, 2017 02:36 PM (ogUTd)
Well, Thatcher was responsible for some of the best anti-Thatcher punk/post-punk/whatever, right?
Posted by: JEM at January 17, 2017 02:36 PM (TppKb)
Posted by: josephistan at January 17, 2017 02:36 PM (7HtZB)
Posted by: Roland THTG at January 17, 2017 02:36 PM (QM5S2)
Posted by: Auctioneer at January 17, 2017 02:36 PM (DpOmP)
Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at January 17, 2017 02:36 PM (oZ6kz)
*golf clap*
Well done, sir. Well done.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 17, 2017 02:36 PM (8hICw)
January 21st 65% of the H-1B visa pool will be reserved for sex
workers.
In that case should it be President-Erect?
Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 17, 2017 02:36 PM (4WhSY)
Posted by: name at January 17, 2017 02:37 PM (En9Fa)
One group touted as having over 750 members, at the writing of the story, now has - brace yourselves, 753 members. The other group in the story now has 46 members. Wow. Almost 800 people. I think the "story" is a PR piece from a couple of companies mentioned who sell safe rooms and prepper stuff. Those companies are smart to profit from the lib fear and angst but a surge in libs buying guns? Doesn't look like it. They are too invested in the idea of gun ownership giving you icky karma.
And the story says nothing about the Orlando gay club shooting, something that I do think has caused a few gays and trannies to buy guns. They're trying to say it's all due to Trump.
Posted by: Dang at January 17, 2017 02:37 PM (8b+oT)
Staging is hell.
Posted by: JEM at January 17, 2017 02:37 PM (TppKb)
Posted by: GuyfromNH at January 17, 2017 02:35 PM (5zfq1)
It's... producing more energy than it is taking in! Get NDT on the phone to explain this to me!
Posted by: NASA at January 17, 2017 02:37 PM (92kX2)
Salaries for active and retired military makes up just a little over 25% of the defense budget. Not real representative because of all the expensive toys but if anything that spread is going to get bigger.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2017 02:38 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Jean at January 17, 2017 02:38 PM (vLRro)
Posted by: Lord Sir x at January 17, 2017 02:38 PM (nFwvY)
Posted by: phreshone at January 17, 2017 02:39 PM (DpOmP)
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This is what getting the money out of politics looks like.
Posted by: Dang at January 17, 2017 02:39 PM (8b+oT)
https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/821441524848279552
Posted by: Lizzy at January 17, 2017 02:40 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Jean at January 17, 2017 02:40 PM (vLRro)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 17, 2017 02:40 PM (B+qrE)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2017 02:33 PM (39g3+)
Maybe in the service industry, but in something like manufacturing, not so much.
In making steel, the big costs are the iron ore, whatever scrap steel is in the mix, then energy. Labor is a relatively small portion of the cost.
Posted by: jwest at January 17, 2017 02:41 PM (Zs4uk)
Posted by: IanDeal at January 17, 2017 02:41 PM (teGBX)
Does Mountain House make freeze-dried vegan meals and kale smoothies? They gonna hunt, gut and prepare squirrel and rabbit? Run around the woods in skinny jeans (oh, the chafing!) Tear themselves away from their iWhatevers because there ain't no service in the wild?
It's just so funny.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? - I speak of the Pompatous of Love at January 17, 2017 02:41 PM (ul9CR)
It's just gonna grab that one asteroid, then it'll be right back.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at January 17, 2017 02:41 PM (4WhSY)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 17, 2017 02:41 PM (NOIQH)
We private sector types in the area always remark about how the government "employees" refer to their "jobs".
It's unique in that they always use the term "got on" at the government instillations. For instance you might hear them say "My uncle got me on over at the labs 6 years ago" or "I'm hoping to get on at the plants, my dad put in a word for me".
It's not lost on us private sector individuals that they never use the phrase "I'm going to work at...." and that the list of things you often refer to "getting on" would be things like welfare, food stamps, disability, etc.
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at January 17, 2017 02:41 PM (YMQt3)
Posted by: Jean at January 17, 2017 02:38 PM (vLRro)
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That's why a REAL reduction in government must entail abolition of programs and functions that the government ought not to be doing anyway.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 17, 2017 02:41 PM (Nox3c)
Posted by: The Guy Who Wants To Bring Back Decimation at January 17, 2017 02:41 PM (8ZskC)
If Rush ever uses the "I saw Somebody open for the Somethings" or the "You want - you'll take - you get" memes, he deserves a platinum AoS membership.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at January 17, 2017 02:41 PM (X6fMO)
Paul Krugman
Ar-ar-ar-ar...
Barking Seals in the Comments
Posted by: Tomorrows New York Times at January 17, 2017 02:42 PM (1BQGO)
"That's a nice stash ya got there, pj boy. How are you planning to defend it?"
Posted by: Lizzy at January 17, 2017 02:42 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Rick Perry at January 17, 2017 02:42 PM (BrQrN)
Our savior is a realtor from Manhattan
To retrieve us from what we thought couldn't happen
A Presdnt Hussein
Whose twice as insane
As the paste-eatin' VP from Scranton
Posted by: French Jeton at January 17, 2017 02:42 PM (WMvHw)
Posted by: phreshone at January 17, 2017 02:42 PM (DpOmP)
I imagine a good number of them are college SJWs who think they've had such success shouting down people like Milo and Ben Shapiro that they're ready to move on to the big leagues and shout down Trump. I hope they sound like little farts in a windstorm....
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at January 17, 2017 02:42 PM (ZM2xo)
They plan to use solar cells to recharge their Blackberrys.
Posted by: Roy at January 17, 2017 02:43 PM (VndSC)
In making steel, the big costs are the iron ore, whatever scrap steel is in the mix, then energy. Labor is a relatively small portion of the cost.
Posted by: jwest at January 17, 2017 02:41 PM (Zs4uk)
This was my experience with food manufacturers as well.
Posted by: NASA at January 17, 2017 02:43 PM (92kX2)
Posted by: jwest at January 17, 2017 02:41 PM (Zs4uk)
You forgot the workers pensions.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 17, 2017 02:43 PM (8hICw)
"Liberal preppers" is such an oxymoron.
Does Mountain House make freeze-dried vegan meals and kale
smoothies? They gonna hunt, gut and prepare squirrel and rabbit? Run
around the woods in skinny jeans (oh, the chafing!) Tear themselves
away from their iWhatevers because there ain't no service in the wild?
It's just so funny.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat?
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The story even mentioned how the discussions were comical. Debates about which toilet paper to stock up on since the Koch brothers owned stock in one brand and another brand was more eco friendly. Pathetic.
Posted by: Dang at January 17, 2017 02:43 PM (8b+oT)
I-I-I...have a slingshot! And I know how to use it! (shoots stone into own head.)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? - I speak of the Pompatous of Love at January 17, 2017 02:43 PM (ul9CR)
Posted by: phreshone at January 17, 2017 02:44 PM (DpOmP)
Posted by: Shiggz at January 17, 2017 02:44 PM (G7wcY)
If Rush ever uses the "I saw Somebody open for the Somethings" or the "You want - you'll take - you get" memes, he deserves a platinum AoS membership.
"But first, "
Posted by: rickb223 at January 17, 2017 02:44 PM (WDy4l)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2017 02:44 PM (92kX2)
Posted by: RickZ at January 17, 2017 02:44 PM (Ek9Xz)
I'm dyin' over here! That is too funny.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? - I speak of the Pompatous of Love at January 17, 2017 02:44 PM (ul9CR)
17
Seventeen agencies.
I think maybe 3 or 4 should be plenty.
Posted by: Roland THTG at January 17, 2017 02:45 PM (QM5S2)
If it is "some departments could go as high as 10 percent" then this could be nicks to places that should be completely eliminated and says nothing about where spending might be increased by way more than 10%.
Full disclosure I am not bothering to click the link to read the full article
Posted by: justaguy at January 17, 2017 02:45 PM (wTSvK)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 17, 2017 02:42 PM (NOIQH)
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http://tinypic.com/m/jkubt5/1
Posted by: SMFH at January 17, 2017 02:45 PM (CRotO)
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at January 17, 2017 02:45 PM (FtrY1)
Posted by: Lord Sir x at January 17, 2017 02:45 PM (nFwvY)
Don't have to fire anyone. Just line out the department's budget to zero. No money, no pay.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 17, 2017 02:45 PM (WDy4l)
"But first, "
Posted by: rickb223 at January 17, 2017 02:44 PM (WDy4l)
Get Ben Roethlisburger to explain things, and you have ratings gold.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2017 02:45 PM (92kX2)
Posted by: colfax mingo at January 17, 2017 02:45 PM (Ik1WR)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 17, 2017 02:46 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Servius at January 17, 2017 02:46 PM (SXIn9)
EPA!!!!
Posted by: Lizzy at January 17, 2017 02:41 PM (NOIQH)
IRS. Flat tax. 10%.
*Mic drop*
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 17, 2017 02:46 PM (mbhDw)
'don't ever talk to your mother like that'
I remember those days- very, very effective
(my brother made our mom cry and I thought my dad had some mob goons in the bathroom where my brother got tuned up.)
Posted by: free tibet, with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at January 17, 2017 02:46 PM (CL76w)
This should help the anti-gun nuts. Enough libs shooting themselves will add to the "guns kill more owners than bad guys" dialog.
Posted by: Roy at January 17, 2017 02:47 PM (VndSC)
17 Seventeen agencies.
I think maybe 3 or 4 should be plenty.
In other news, 27 retired flag officers supported Jeb Bush for president.
It's SCIENCE
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 17, 2017 02:47 PM (8ZskC)
Don't have to fire anyone. Just line out the department's budget to zero. No money, no pay.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 17, 2017 02:45 PM (WDy4l)
A lot of political operatives have been put in the departments over the past 8 years... need to weed out the parasites too
Posted by: phreshone at January 17, 2017 02:48 PM (DpOmP)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2017 02:48 PM (/tuJf)
Good thing for Friday afternoon on Trump's to-do list.
Posted by: Roy at January 17, 2017 02:48 PM (VndSC)
Posted by: rickb223
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Na, they'll continue to work there because they believe in "public service".
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Posted by: Dang at January 17, 2017 02:48 PM (8b+oT)
"But first, "
Posted by: rickb223 at January 17, 2017 02:44 PM (WDy4l)
When he segues between topics he calls it a nood.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 17, 2017 02:48 PM (KUaJL)
Posted by: rickb223 at January 17, 2017 02:45 PM (WDy4l)
Paul Ryan will get right on that.
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.
.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 17, 2017 02:48 PM (8hICw)
Seventeen agencies.
I think maybe 3 or 4 should be plenty.
Posted by: Roland THTG at January 17, 2017 02:45 PM (QM5S2)
4 would never work. The Russians already cracked the composites for intelligence agencies. Everyone who's not a Russian agent knows that you have to have a prime number of intelligence agencies.
And 3 certainly wouldn't work because no real country has less than 8 intelligence agencies.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 17, 2017 02:49 PM (zc3Db)
Punishment for the sake of punishment gets people nowhere. IMO, the percentages are the wrong way around given that most of our budget is just some form of handout. It should be 10% of the Feds and 20% of the budget. It's all the fattening giveaway crap we now consider sacrosanct. That's what makes this greater D.C. area so economically well off. The legion of Feds is nothing to those downstream of government expenditure.
Anyways, I'll come out ok... scientists are well protected usually. It just doesn't help my mental health issues worrying who may want to have people fired for teh lulz. Yeah, real world people have to worry about that too and stuff.
Posted by: Former mass resident at January 17, 2017 02:49 PM (d6Zcu)
Seventeen agencies.
I think maybe 3 or 4 should be plenty.
If you look at the list, a third of them are not intelligence agencies at all, they are stuff like the DEA. Another third are military intelligence.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2017 02:49 PM (39g3+)
"But first, "
Posted by: rickb223 at January 17, 2017 02:44 PM (WDy4l)
Get Ben Roethlisburger to explain things, and you have ratings gold.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2017 02:45 PM (92kX2)
BEN MAKE BAD TOUCH BUT THOUGHT GIRL WAS ASKING FOR TOUCH AND GO DOWN
Posted by: Big Ben at January 17, 2017 02:49 PM (DpOmP)
EPA!!!!
Posted by: Lizzy at January 17, 2017 02:41 PM (NOIQH)
IRS. Flat tax. 10%.
*Mic drop*
I still say DoEd. Not responsible for one student. Replicated 50 times at the state level.
Not explicitly specified in the Constitution. Is their any other department so ripe for elimination?
Posted by: rickb223 at January 17, 2017 02:49 PM (WDy4l)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 17, 2017 02:49 PM (zc3Db)
13 it is!
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 17, 2017 02:49 PM (8hICw)
Posted by: dougf at January 17, 2017 02:49 PM (YJLR/)
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Put together!!
Posted by: LizLem at January 17, 2017 02:50 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: DanMan at January 17, 2017 02:50 PM (aZqu2)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2017 02:50 PM (39g3+)
"would rock Washington"? What do these government employees think that people in the private sector have been going through?
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 17, 2017 02:50 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: Former mass resident at January 17, 2017 02:49 PM (d6Zcu)
That's not true.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 17, 2017 02:50 PM (zc3Db)
Posted by: Doctor Cynic at January 17, 2017 02:30 PM (nkrB2)
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"Coolidge? He was terrible! The federal government barely grew while he was in office!"
-Noted Historian
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 17, 2017 02:50 PM (/prE6)
I think maybe 3 or 4 should be plenty.
And nobody even noticed that there's one called the Sicherheitsdienst in there.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 17, 2017 02:50 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Former mass resident at January 17, 2017 02:49 PM (d6Zcu)
That's not true.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 17, 2017 02:50 PM (zc3Db)
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 17, 2017 02:51 PM (8hICw)
Posted by: Mega at January 17, 2017 02:51 PM (k9xFn)
Posted by: name at January 17, 2017 02:51 PM (En9Fa)
"But first, "
Posted by: rickb223 at January 17, 2017 02:44 PM (WDy4l)
Get Ben Roethlisburger to explain things, and you have ratings gold.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2017 02:45 PM (92kX2)
+95,000,000
Posted by: phreshone at January 17, 2017 02:51 PM (DpOmP)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 17, 2017 02:51 PM (ODxAs)
Not explicitly specified in the Constitution. Is their any other department so ripe for elimination?
Never have so many done so much for so many that ended up looking like a turd.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 17, 2017 02:51 PM (B+qrE)
One group touted as having over 750 members, at the writing of the story, now has - brace yourselves, 753 members. The other group in the story now has 46 members. Wow. Almost 800 people. I think the "story" is a PR piece from a couple of companies mentioned who sell safe rooms and prepper stuff. Those companies are smart to profit from the lib fear and angst but a surge in libs buying guns? Doesn't look like it. They are too invested in the idea of gun ownership giving you icky karma.
And the story says nothing about the Orlando gay club shooting, something that I do think has caused a few gays and trannies to buy guns. They're trying to say it's all due to Trump.
Posted by: Dang
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If it is the story I am thinking of, it is BS. Being terrified but unarmed is proof of their bravery and moral superiority AFATAC.
Posted by: Tilikum KAW at January 17, 2017 02:51 PM (m3iiU)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at January 17, 2017 02:49 PM (zc3Db)
"Three people can keep a secret if 2 of them are dead."-KGB Proverb
Posted by: Agent Cooper at January 17, 2017 02:51 PM (1zARK)
Posted by: Roy at January 17, 2017 02:52 PM (VndSC)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 17, 2017 02:52 PM (kTF2Z)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 17, 2017 02:51 PM (B+qrE)
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"But look at how polished it is!"
~ DoEd
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 17, 2017 02:52 PM (8hICw)
Posted by: Mega at January 17, 2017 02:51 PM (k9xFn)
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I'd settle with equal to Polk.
Great for the nation. Largely forgotten by historians because he doesn't fit their narrative of great presidents.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 17, 2017 02:52 PM (/prE6)
Posted by: Dang at January 17, 2017 02:43 PM (8b+oT)
We should let them know that the Koch Brothers own all toilet paper, tissue and paper towel companies. There are no options for them. They'll just have to use whatever comes to hand
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 17, 2017 02:52 PM (493sH)
Michelle's gone, so let's stop pretending that your child's weight is the responsibility of the USDA.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 17, 2017 02:52 PM (NOIQH)
Well it's our job to support these people. I'm sure I read that somewhere.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2017 02:52 PM (/tuJf)
I'm afraid Ace's schadenboner has achieved escape velocity and is on its way to the asteroid belt.
In less than twelve parsecs.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 17, 2017 02:52 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: DanMan at January 17, 2017 02:52 PM (aZqu2)
Posted by: EVLINC! at January 17, 2017 02:52 PM (y3aQB)
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at January 17, 2017 02:53 PM (UBzPO)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 17, 2017 02:52 PM (493sH)
Even if they don't own them, they certainly ship them.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 17, 2017 02:53 PM (8hICw)
Is it considered a stylistic error to call him Congressman John Lewis, or, perhaps, John Lewis, or Democratic Congressman John Lewis?
I'm gathering it's similar to how the media must always call Mohammed the Prophet Mohammed.
When he starts before God on the last day, will God refer to him as Civil Rights Icon John Lewis, or will he just call him John Lewis?
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 17, 2017 02:53 PM (nBr1j)
Michelle's gone, so let's stop pretending that your child's weight is the responsibility of the USDA.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 17, 2017 02:52 PM (NOIQH)
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Just think of all the time in the world there will be afterwards for people to completely forget about it before the voters return to the polls.
A lot of this needs to be approached like a band-aid: One motion. Right off!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 17, 2017 02:53 PM (/prE6)
Trump is going to just have CONTROL.
Who are going to fight KAOS.
Posted by: Roy
They're going to have to build a new Hymie.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 17, 2017 02:54 PM (IqV8l)
I know a lot more private sector "consultants" making well into the six figures working government contracts. The Feds are all living hour or more outside DC, slugging rides.
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at January 17, 2017 02:54 PM (+DkXp)
Advantage, wooden spoon. That shit f'ing HURT. And you learned real quick not to reflexively stick your hands behind you to cover your butt. It hurt worse on your hands than on your butt, which does have some padding.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? - I speak of the Pompatous of Love at January 17, 2017 02:54 PM (ul9CR)
Posted by: DaveA at January 17, 2017 02:54 PM (8J/Te)
From an actual jeweled goblet. Filled with the blood of his enemies. (Both for psychic benefits and for improved muscle pumps)
Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at January 17, 2017 02:54 PM (oZ6kz)
Less bastards seems to be a fine way to fix this.
Posted by: ScoggDog at January 17, 2017 02:54 PM (qcr5D)
Posted by: CA Token at January 17, 2017 02:55 PM (qxsBe)
Posted by: Dang at January 17, 2017 02:55 PM (8b+oT)
Michelle's gone, so let's stop pretending that your child's weight is the responsibility of the USDA.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 17, 2017 02:52 PM (NOIQH)
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Just think of all the time in the world there will be afterwards for people to completely forget about it before the voters return to the polls.
A lot of this needs to be approached like a band-aid: One motion. Right off!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 17, 2017 02:53 PM (/prE6)
Parents responsible for feeding their children properly?
There's a thought.
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 17, 2017 02:55 PM (nBr1j)
Less bastards seems to be a fine way to fix this.
Posted by: ScoggDog at January 17, 2017 02:54 PM (qcr5D)
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Let's just make them personally liable for their infractions against the people. Let the people sue them individually for their misdeeds.
x10 damages for Constitutional infringements.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 17, 2017 02:56 PM (/prE6)
Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at January 17, 2017 02:56 PM (oZ6kz)
Return power to the states and locals. Let the hacking (down to size) begin. Chop up the too big to fails/jails, while we're at it. Bailing out the leveraged millionaires is part of what put so much power in the urban areas to begin with. Snip snip here, clip clip there ... and a couple of tra la las.
Posted by: illiniwek at January 17, 2017 02:56 PM (/aIFg)
There's a thought.
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 17, 2017 02:55 PM (nBr1j)
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I cannot imagine a more deluded definition of "general welfare" than the food I chose to feed my son, and whether I carry health insurance or not.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 17, 2017 02:57 PM (/prE6)
"Crushing your enemies, seeing them driven before you and hearing the lamentations of their women."
And it's already started.
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 17, 2017 02:57 PM (nBr1j)
"On day one of he controversial Trump Administration, Donald Trump signed an Executive Order taking food from the mouths of underprivileged children."
-- The MSM
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 17, 2017 02:57 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at January 17, 2017 02:57 PM (xnTt9)
Yes. Why would you NOT want to use the phrases icon or legend alongside his name? Are you a racist?
Addendum, another acceptable phrase is "conscience of the House."
Posted by: MSM, harrumping at January 17, 2017 02:57 PM (hvf9s)
DoE: $73,837,292 for 2016
NEA: $147,949,000 for 2016
You add that up and you're talking real money here.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2017 02:58 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: DaveJ at January 17, 2017 02:59 PM (fjnRw)
"On day one of he controversial Trump Administration, Donald Trump signed an Executive Order taking food from the mouths of underprivileged children."
-- The MSM
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 17, 2017 02:57 PM (8ZskC)
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Day before Election day 2020:
"Americans starving from lack of guidance on food in school lunches amid 4-5% economic growth."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 17, 2017 02:59 PM (/prE6)
Does Mountain House make freeze-dried vegan meals and kale smoothies? They gonna hunt, gut and prepare squirrel and rabbit? Run around the woods in skinny jeans (oh, the chafing!) Tear themselves away from their iWhatevers because there ain't no service in the wild?
It's just so funny.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? - I speak of the Pompatous of Love at January 17, 2017 02:41 PM (ul9CR)
There's an episode of one of those ubiquitous "dropped in the wild with some gear" reality shows years ago set in Alaska, that featured a whispered "it's a moose... get the .22".
Posted by: hogmartin at January 17, 2017 02:59 PM (8nWyX)
LOL. Perhaps God will just call him "John" After all, God know the difference between John Lewis, John McCain and every other John. :^)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2017 02:59 PM (tOcW/)
Considering that the Post Office, SSA and the US Forest have their very own swat teams, I'm thinking 17 may be on the low side.
Posted by: Roland THTG at January 17, 2017 02:59 PM (QM5S2)
Posted by: Dang at January 17, 2017 02:59 PM (8b+oT)
Still not tired of winning.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? - I speak of the Pompatous of Love at January 17, 2017 02:59 PM (ul9CR)
Plus, I went to grad school on the GI Bill waiting for a GS-11
Posted by: Colonel Kurtz at January 17, 2017 02:59 PM (acnx4)
My dad was enormous and he was always afraid he'd hurt us seriously, so he would spank much less hard than mom. She used a belt mostly, but sometimes that wooden spoon. She was pitiless.
But afterward she'd always hug us close and tell us she loved us. And we knew we had it coming.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2017 03:00 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: stace at January 17, 2017 03:00 PM (gr5t5)
Considering that the Post Office, SSA and the US Forest have their very own swat teams, I'm thinking 17 may be on the low side.
Posted by: Roland THTG at January 17, 2017 02:59 PM (QM5S2)
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"How else are we going to delivery junk mail to your door?"
-The Post Office
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 17, 2017 03:00 PM (/prE6)
The story even mentioned how the discussions were comical. Debates about which toilet paper to stock up on since the Koch brothers owned stock in one brand and another brand was more eco friendly.
Serious, you guys!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot at January 17, 2017 03:00 PM (BK3ZS)
Posted by: PS4 Addicted teen at January 17, 2017 03:00 PM (DpOmP)
Posted by: Colonel Kurtz at January 17, 2017 03:01 PM (acnx4)
My sister in law a unioonized teacher retired at the age of 60 with a pension and all of her and my brothers health insurance paid for until they reach medicare age. All courtesy of the taxpayers. The republican governor improved the state budget by making early retirement teachers pay 20% of their health insurance premiums.
It is useless to explain to these people that almost no one else gets to have early retirement, much less their health insurance paid for. It's almost as frustrating a conversation as trying to ask them why the union protects bad teachers.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 17, 2017 03:01 PM (+lVUW)
1. Libs eff with inauguration
2. Trump goes into bunker mode
3. ???
Posted by: Dang at January 17, 2017 02:59 PM (8b+oT)
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"3. Trump decides to abandon all Republicans and join Democrats in implementing a progressive vision of America!"
-Very smart protester
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 17, 2017 03:01 PM (/prE6)
But this isn't news according to the Fake News Industrial Complex.
All they're telling me today is how unpopular Trump is, even among Republicans.
Posted by: Soothsayer XLT at January 17, 2017 03:01 PM (0O7Yf)
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at January 17, 2017 03:01 PM (C9pBZ)
DoE: $73,837,292 for 2016
NEA: $147,949,000 for 2016
You add that up and you're talkin
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Wait, is that right. More money was spent on Arts than Education???? That can't be right.....if it is then that's a real problem there.
Posted by: lindafell de spair deplorable xenophobic redneck at January 17, 2017 03:01 PM (JNDQi)
Usually candidates are running as Constitutional conservatives during the primary.
Then they are just "moderate" conservatives during the General Election.
Then they govern as center left as President.
Trump seems to be moving further to the right the closer he gets to the Inauguration.
Forget a boner lasting 4 hours, it looks like mine is gonna be lasting 4 years.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac and Irredeemable at January 17, 2017 03:01 PM (1JnAL)
To be fair, the Post Office swat team is tasked mainly with taking out postal employees who snap. It's pretty much a full-time gig.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 17, 2017 03:02 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at January 17, 2017 02:57 PM (xnTt9)
need to clear out those hired since 1/1/2009 making over $100k... clear out the Obamabots first
Posted by: phreshone at January 17, 2017 03:02 PM (DpOmP)
In my big file of "plots for future books" is a thumnail sketch of a reality show about people hunting zombies in that ruined Chinese city that was featured in Skyfall. Somehow they all end up in a fantasy world and one by one almost all are killed in horrendous ways because they're all spoiled urbanite snowflakes.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2017 03:02 PM (39g3+)
That Christopher "Alexander Supertramp" McClandiss (sp?) guy who died of starvation in Alaska actually did shoot a moose that could have saved his life, but was unable to jerk the meat before it spoiled.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? - I speak of the Pompatous of Love at January 17, 2017 03:02 PM (ul9CR)
Plus, I went to grad school on the GI Bill waiting for a GS-11
Posted by: Colonel Kurtz at January 17, 2017 02:59 PM (acnx4)
I'm overworked, underpaid, and every day I have a little worry in the back of my head that I'm going to be told that we're closing up shop or that demand has dropped so low that half the people are being let go.
Welcome to life, its different than being in government but needs to stop being that way.
Posted by: buzzion at January 17, 2017 03:02 PM (cAnNx)
Posted by: vivi at January 17, 2017 03:03 PM (11H2y)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 17, 2017 03:03 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 17, 2017 03:03 PM (so+oy)
HE will call him southbound.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 17, 2017 03:03 PM (WDy4l)
That's the best info I could dig up from the Budget department, its possible I was misreading the numbers. Endowment data was easy to find, education took a bit more digging.
But the arts also covers stuff like PBS and lots of college stuff, plus movies being made and I think crap like the Ad Council
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2017 03:03 PM (39g3+)
Amen! You are there for the people who pay your salary.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 17, 2017 03:04 PM (WDy4l)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2017 03:02 PM (39g3+)
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Serious attempt at constructive criticism:
Does that plot seem a bit overstuffed? Zombies in an exotic locale, followed by fantasy world?
Almost like there's one element too many. But, what do I know? I'm not actually published and you are.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 17, 2017 03:04 PM (/prE6)
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at January 17, 2017 03:05 PM (8XVdc)
your hands behind you to cover your butt. It hurt worse on your hands
than on your butt, which does have some padding. Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? - I speak of the Pompatous of Love at January 17, 2017 02:54 PM (ul9CR)
We're alums of the same school.
Posted by: General Zod at January 17, 2017 03:05 PM (Bdeb0)
318 Call me crazy, but there just might be some redundancy there.
Considering that the Post Office, SSA and the US Forest have their very own swat teams, I'm thinking 17 may be on the low side.
Posted by: Roland THTG at January 17, 2017 02:59 PM (QM5S2)
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"How else are we going to delivery junk mail to your door?"
-The Post Office
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 17, 2017 03:00 PM (/prE6)
Any federal agency with its own police force/swat team/armed agents/whatever save for the FBI, ATF (and this is debatable as I wouldn't trust them with a potato gun) needs to be freed of them. If a governmental agency can't perform a duty that requires LEO by utilizing local, county, state or federal (FBI) police - then the agency should be shut down.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 17, 2017 03:05 PM (jxbfJ)
Nah, its a reality show, the "zombies" are guys in costumes.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2017 03:05 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Shiggz at January 17, 2017 02:44 PM (G7wcY)
Yeah, the Trump team will have to be on the lookout for that.
Suggestion:Trump needs to create one Czar. Call him the Director of Asshole Elimination. His role would to seek out and fire leftwing assholes infesting the organs of government. Have him asking for input from the public about individual government employees who have fucked them over, gratuitously. Sure, he will have to sift out some sour grapes from people who did cheat on their taxes, and got caught, but I'll bet there is a wealth of information out there.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2017 03:05 PM (LRVnP)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 17, 2017 03:06 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at January 17, 2017 03:06 PM (mN+tK)
NEA: $147,949,000 for 2016
You add that up and you're talking real money here.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2017 02:58 PM (39g3+)
Let's see... $4 trillion budget... Total between those 2 agencies:$221,786,292
Thus, .005545% of the budget.
I'm all for getting rid of them, but these are not the savings you're looking for.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 17, 2017 03:06 PM (8hICw)
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 17, 2017 03:06 PM (nBr1j)
Is that supposed to be Michael Moore or something? Looks like he:
a. Aged 90 years in the weeks since Trump won;
b. Merged his body's atoms with those of Janet Reno's corpse, creating the ultimate undead supervillain!
Posted by: zombie at January 17, 2017 03:06 PM (jBuUi)
Unlike our FBI, Turkish authorities work in quick fashion. Istanbul gunman captured. [Mis. Hum.]
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Fascist governments tend to be really efficient. I wouldn't be all too eager to heap praise on one, even when they do get their man (assuming he is their man).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 17, 2017 03:06 PM (/prE6)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 17, 2017 03:03 PM (so+oy)
I once had to go to the SS administration to get a new card because mine had gone missing. They were only open Monday - Thursday and not even for 8 hours. And of course most of them are going to lunch right around noon, slowing down everything.
Posted by: buzzion at January 17, 2017 03:06 PM (cAnNx)
Yeah? So who's going to review displays for microagressions at the Am Indian museum?
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at January 17, 2017 03:06 PM (C9pBZ)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 17, 2017 03:06 PM (jxbfJ)
Posted by: wth at January 17, 2017 03:06 PM (HgMAr)
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at January 17, 2017 03:07 PM (+DkXp)
Posted by: EPA at January 17, 2017 03:07 PM (HgMAr)
Posted by: Furious George
I think that EO was eventually put into law, but something like that will have to be done to fire one person, let alone 20 %.
Posted by: Dirks Strewn at January 17, 2017 03:07 PM (kfcYC)
killed in horrendous ways because they're all spoiled urbanite
snowflakes.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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I would loved to read that at least one of your snowflakes gets wacked in the middle of a drum circle.
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at January 17, 2017 03:07 PM (toH8T)
NEA: $147,949,000 for 2016
You add that up and you're talking real money here.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Over $1,200,000,000 for the NEA over the last 8 years.
http://tinyurl.com/jreutxx
I'm going to break my calculator if I try to add all the years since 1966.
Posted by: Dang at January 17, 2017 03:07 PM (8b+oT)
thumnail sketch of a reality show about people hunting zombies in that
ruined Chinese city that was featured in Skyfall. Somehow they
all end up in a fantasy world and one by one almost all are killed in
horrendous ways because they're all spoiled urbanite snowflakes. Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2017 03:02 PM (39g3+)
Are they in the city because they've heard that an elderly Arizona senator is immobilized in a chair there, and that if they save him, he'll give them a beer distributorship, but if they don't, the zombies will eat his brains with spoons while he's still living?
Posted by: General Zod at January 17, 2017 03:07 PM (Bdeb0)
"it's a bunch of mediocre negroes being dragged in front of TV as a photo-op for Donald Trump's exploitive campaign against black people. "
http://tinyurl.com/zlvbrsf
He should say that to Jim Brown's face. Or Ray Lewis. Once he's done spitting teeth he can apologize. Or not, since he's a fool.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2017 03:08 PM (39g3+)
Nah, its a reality show, the "zombies" are guys in costumes.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2017 03:05 PM (39g3+)
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Cool. Grounding that beginning like that does feel like an interesting start.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 17, 2017 03:08 PM (/prE6)
DoE: $73,837,292 for 2016
NEA: $147,949,000 for 2016
You add that up and you're talking real money here.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2017 02:58 PM (39g3+)
Let's see... $4 trillion budget... Total between those 2 agencies:$221,786,292
Thus, .005545% of the budget.
I'm all for getting rid of them, but these are not the savings you're looking for.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 17, 2017 03:06 PM (8hICw)
Got to start somewhere. What did the old lady say when she pissed in the sea? Every bit helps.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 17, 2017 03:08 PM (jxbfJ)
Posted by: Northernlurker
And to make it even more accurate, on inauguration day Trump should make all federal employees line up like in a military inspection, and he should walk down the line carrying General Patton's sword and just casually behead every tenth person.
Posted by: zombie at January 17, 2017 03:08 PM (jBuUi)
Is that supposed to be Michael Moore or something? Looks like he:
a. Aged 90 years in the weeks since Trump won;
b. Merged his body's atoms with those of Janet Reno's corpse, creating the ultimate undead supervillain!
Posted by: zombie at January 17, 2017 03:06 PM (jBuUi)
It kind of looks like he lost the One Ring of Power.
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 17, 2017 03:08 PM (nBr1j)
Who are going to fight KAOS.
Posted by: Roy at January 17, 2017 02:52 PM (VndSC)
And loving it
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 17, 2017 03:08 PM (493sH)
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 17, 2017 03:08 PM (nBr1j)
"It was mine! They stoles it!! Tricksy hobbitses..."
~ Gollum
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 17, 2017 03:09 PM (8hICw)
Posted by: Soothsayer XLT at January 17, 2017 03:09 PM (0O7Yf)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 17, 2017 03:06 PM (8ZskC)
Remember when the Ad Council was concerned with stopping drug abuse?
Now they're all concerned with showing butch lesbians kissing behind a screen that shows them as skeletons.
Posted by: buzzion at January 17, 2017 03:09 PM (cAnNx)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 17, 2017 03:09 PM (8hICw)
Posted by: Tuna at January 17, 2017 03:09 PM (JSovD)
I'm still contemplating the fact that the post office has a SWAT team. Then it occurred to me that no one working for the Post Office has gone Postal since the SWAT team was set up.
See? Just think how bad it will be when the Post Office SWAT team is no longer authorized. Why there will be shootings at the Post Office all the time! Can't have that.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at January 17, 2017 03:10 PM (ACM1V)
Did anyone in the objective, non-biased newsmedia do any hard hitting investigations into what all these czars, staffs, offices, etc. cost the taxpayers?
And of course, once these czars were in place we never heard about them again, because, like many bureaucrats, they don't do anything that matters.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 17, 2017 03:10 PM (+lVUW)
I agree, the real savings are in two sacred cows: military and entitlements. And while I don't want our military hurt, there's a lot of waste, fraud, and duplication there that can be cut back. And a gigantic mountain more in entitlements.
Just creating a robust, booming economy would cut back on entitlements, all those new food stamp recipients during the Obama administration are expensive.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2017 03:10 PM (39g3+)
enjoy your unemployment, it's an opportunity to become an artist or something more valuable than making a wage to feed your loved ones! , all that free time!
and look perhaps You can get a job at the unemployment office.
does this make me sad? it actually does, but I found you guys supporting this measure when it was us getting the ax across the country.
it's like the other shoe scenario. your turn to walk a mile in our shoes, but in this case maybe we can save he country from a fiscal collapse while you were egging on our collapse.
Not all fed workers, but as we see, too many.
Posted by: willow at January 17, 2017 03:10 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: tubal at January 17, 2017 03:10 PM (pZ/Vz)
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 17, 2017 03:08 PM (nBr1j)
"It was mine! They stoles it!! Tricksy hobbitses..."
~ Gollum
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 17, 2017 03:09 PM (8hICw)
Speaking of which has Hillary crumbled into dust yet?
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 17, 2017 03:10 PM (nBr1j)
if we're going to name drop, CS Lewis said that if "progress" means going in the wrong direction, it's not good progress and the right thing to do is to retrace our steps
Posted by: Boulder terlit hobo at January 17, 2017 03:10 PM (8XVdc)
Didn't like his answers on Climate change.
Posted by: Vlad at January 17, 2017 03:10 PM (hdpay)
Posted by: Vlad at January 17, 2017 03:11 PM (hdpay)
We will always have Walmart.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at January 17, 2017 03:11 PM (ACM1V)
That Christopher "Alexander Supertramp" McClandiss (sp?) guy who died of starvation in Alaska actually did shoot a moose that could have saved his life, but was unable to jerk the meat before it spoiled.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? - I speak of the Pompatous of Love at January 17, 2017 03:02 PM (ul9CR)
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So, we're not doing phrasing anymore?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 17, 2017 03:12 PM (kTF2Z)
Posted by: Tuna at January 17, 2017 03:09 PM (JSovD)
I used to live there. Went into an Andersons once that had a Tony Pacos takeout. Wasn't that impressed.
Posted by: buzzion at January 17, 2017 03:12 PM (cAnNx)
Firing employees w/ 15-19 yrs of service eliminates their opportunity to take retirement and those w/ 20-25 yrs can have retirement benifits slashed from 50-90%.
They also tend to be the higher salaried individuals, given their seniority.
Kill the Department Heads and roll with a mix of part-time retiree consultants and college grads.
Posted by: Malcolm Tent at January 17, 2017 03:12 PM (xnTt9)
a. Aged 90 years in the weeks since Trump won;
b. Merged his body's atoms with those of Janet Reno's corpse, creating the ultimate undead supervillain!
Posted by: zombie at January 17, 2017 03:06 PM (jBuUi)
To his (very little) credit, he was one of the few libs prescient enough to read the mood of the country and have real concern that Trump was gonna pull it off. The Progressive's version of a tubby Cassandra, he kept screaming at them to take it seriously and they refused. Would age anyone.
Posted by: LizLem at January 17, 2017 03:12 PM (hvf9s)
That will be a hell of a trick.
Posted by: JackStraw
I've seen it described several times as a total of trillion of tax credits/money and private investment combined.
Posted by: Dirks Strewn at January 17, 2017 03:12 PM (kfcYC)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2017 03:13 PM (tOcW/)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at January 17, 2017 03:13 PM (mN+tK)
Posted by: Dang at January 17, 2017 03:13 PM (8b+oT)
The problem being when you get a robust economy you get a rise in interest rates which has already begun. This means that the interest payments are also going way up as a percentage of the budget.
The only way this ever happens is by cutting entitlements and the military. That's where the money is and everything else is just dancing around the edges.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2017 03:14 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Farmer Bob at January 17, 2017 03:14 PM (mN+tK)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2017 03:14 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Anonymous Moscow Hooker at January 17, 2017 02:18 PM (oGRue)
You missed the part of my statement where I said our Russian hookers are the best in the world!
Da?
Posted by: Vlad
Not going to ask what tireless research you conducted to cum to that conclusion.
Posted by: Dirks Strewn at January 17, 2017 03:14 PM (kfcYC)
~ Gollum
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 17, 2017 03:09 PM (8hICw)
Hey that's my line!
Posted by: John McCain, anti Tea Party Hobbits at January 17, 2017 03:15 PM (hvf9s)
Yep. Saw that when it was announced a while ago. But it's still money that has to be paid for one way or the other.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2017 03:15 PM (/tuJf)
My sister in law a unioonized teacher retired at the age of 60 with a pension and all of her and my brothers health insurance paid for until they reach medicare age. All courtesy of the taxpayers. The republican governor improved the state budget by making early retirement teachers pay 20% of their health insurance premiums.
It is useless to explain to these people that almost no one else gets to have early retirement, much less their health insurance paid for. It's almost as frustrating a conversation as trying to ask them why the union protects bad teachers.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 17, 2017 03:01 PM (+lVUW)
Don't forget. They retire from the public school system, then take a job for a few years at a private school while getting their government benefits and private benefits.
Years ago when I was in high school, our Spanish teacher waited until the first day of school to retire. First day because that was the day she became fully vested. We waited 8 weeks for them to hire a fulltime teacher putting us way behind where we should have been.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac and Irredeemable at January 17, 2017 03:16 PM (1JnAL)
Well, not my worry anymore! Lay waste, Golden Scalp Weasel, lay waste...
Posted by: Brother Cavil, keeper of the Deplorable Unicode Character at January 17, 2017 03:16 PM (9krrF)
Yeah, the first year or so, you get a nasty debt increase, until the tax revenues start coming in. No way around it, but after a couple years the debt shrinks so you just have to wait it out.
How do you become a mediocre Negro?
By disagreeing with leftists. Seriously I thought "negro" was a no-no word that was horrendously insulting and racist, unless its used for the United Negro College Fund. Kind of like "colored" and the NAACP.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2017 03:17 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 17, 2017 03:06 PM (/prE6)
They're an islamist government, so lying is baked into the cake. I wouldn't put it past them to manufacture a patsy, just so they can claim to have "solved" the case. Quick secret trial, execute the poor shmuck, case closed.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2017 03:21 PM (LRVnP)
Your experience is way different than mine here in Columbus. They have the best wine and beer selection in the county. Case after case after case of wines each lovingly labeled as to its attributes. Fresh local produce, the best meat market in our area, seasonal food specialties, deli, bakery, nursery and garden store...They sell everything. They also employ many, many retirees and the staff and store atmosphere is so friendly. It's a damn shame.
Posted by: Tuna at January 17, 2017 03:22 PM (JSovD)
Look, this is great fun, cracking big ol' farts in the barber shop, but you know you're full of shit, right? I had some friends on that "swat team" and they were the most committed investigators I ever worked with. They lost over 2/3 of their workforce under Clinton. O you did NOT KNOW THAT? I'm shocked.
That "swat team" pre-dates the Marine Corps, and had the highest "kill rate" on prosecutions of any government detective agency, federal or state. But this is our day for pulling the King's knights off their horses, so who gives a shit whether anything we say is true or not, right?
Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 17, 2017 03:23 PM (H5rtT)
Who are going to fight KAOS.
KAOS: A Delaware corporation.
That still cracks me up after all these years.
Posted by: Blue Hen at January 17, 2017 03:23 PM (326rv)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2017 03:21 PM (LRVnP)
====================
Nothing to praise.
Also, we're not in the FBI. It's entirely possible that they had tabs on the Florida terrorist's wife all along and were just gathering intel, scooping her up once they felt like she was done.
It's probably a relatively safe bet that they just lost her due to incompetence, but they could have been smart about it too. No one outside the FBI knows.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 17, 2017 03:23 PM (/prE6)
Please L*rd....I don't ask for much....
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at January 17, 2017 03:24 PM (2x9LM)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2017 03:26 PM (tOcW/)
the barber shop, but you know you're full of shit, right? I had some
friends on that "swat team" and they were the most committed
investigators I ever worked with. They lost over 2/3 of their workforce
under Clinton. O you did NOT KNOW THAT? I'm shocked.
That "swat
team" pre-dates the Marine Corps, and had the highest "kill rate" on
prosecutions of any government detective agency, federal or state. But
this is our day for pulling the King's knights off their horses, so who
gives a shit whether anything we say is true or not, right?
Posted by: Stringer Davis at January 17, 2017 03:23 PM (H5rtT)
People have decided that law enforcement means "SWAT Team".
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 17, 2017 03:26 PM (S2V6F)
Then cut the rest of the government.
Posted by: Iblis at January 17, 2017 03:32 PM (9221z)
Posted by: Lester at January 17, 2017 03:36 PM (8USec)
Posted by: GuyfromNH at January 17, 2017 02:35 PM
Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird....it's a plane....it's....
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 17, 2017 03:44 PM (p+Wdc)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2017 03:46 PM (tOcW/)
the people who didn't vote for Trump but are not part of the violent
activist group will be annoyed at having their commutes disrupted.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 17, 2017 03:26 PM
Oh, hell yeah. I had my commute screwed up by BLM protesters on the highway one morning, and you could see all of the black commuters on the road yelling and looking pissed that they couldn't get to work. And you know they all had radios on with frequent news/traffic reports telling them exactly who was costing them money.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 17, 2017 03:48 PM (p+Wdc)
Posted by: Lurking Moron at January 17, 2017 04:10 PM (EuQH7)
Posted by: lonetown at January 17, 2017 04:10 PM (obbcC)
No matter how stupid or baseless your position, if you make your statement by screaming and with zeal, you MUST be right.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at January 17, 2017 04:27 PM (4AVeu)
Posted by: richard mcenroe at January 17, 2017 04:53 PM (pCPGh)
Posted by: Levin at January 17, 2017 05:03 PM (f3GW1)
Posted by: Levin at January 17, 2017 05:08 PM (f3GW1)
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at January 17, 2017 07:07 PM (Ndje9)
Posted by: Zapp Branigan at January 17, 2017 07:30 PM (h1VJa)
Posted by: Manolo at January 17, 2017 11:26 PM (j35O3)
It's Controllership 101. Control the number of employees or else. Or else you are incompetent.
In the private sector there's built-in pressure to control expenses. Not so in Government where no one worries about next quarter's PL.
Posted by: JamesG at January 18, 2017 04:49 PM (hk46F)
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