Here was a cheery headline:
“RI gov to shut down state government for 12 days”
“Rhode Island will shut down its state government for 12 days and hopes to trim millions of dollars in funding for local governments under a plan Gov. Don Carcieri outlined Monday to balance a budget hammered by surging unemployment and plummeting tax revenue.”
What a great idea! Perhaps it will catch on in Sacramento, Albany, and other state capitals. Indeed, maybe it will catch on in Washington!
I doubt it, frankly, but one can always hope.
Oh, Roger will have his little funnies. And what an original response to RI’s situation! Who else would have thought of it? And how would Roger respond to poor peons who might actually be in desperate need of state services? With another original quip, I suppose: Let them eat me! Or something like that.
Turning a goverment OFF is as difficult as turning a power station OFF. You can’t turn the capital cost of buildings and equipment down. You can’t shudown the security guards. The only way a governement saves money during a shutdown is if the workers sent home do not collect salary for the period.
These are the basic reasons for government inefficiency, it costs money even if its stops doing whatever it’s “normally” doing, which is questionable in the first place.
Anyway, good luck to the governor!
Oh, bibio44, you dastardly, rascally scold you! I just love it when you monitor this site so you can leave one of your brash, bold, and pointed comments in the first or second spot. How you keep us honest, you brazen troll.
Surely, those of us who come after you can only pause in reverent awe at your cogent, insightful wordplay and the immense abyss, er, depth of your understanding.
We all bow before you, oh wise, wonderful counselor bibio44.
Lurk, lurk, oh bibio44 doth lurk -
“The only way a governement saves money during a shutdown is if the workers sent home do not collect salary for the period.”
Give the Rhode Island elected officials credit: these workers will not be paid during their time off! It’s a good start. More of these temporary layoffs must become the norm. But it still won’t be enough. Only by declaring bankruptcy can these governments get free from the onerous public employee union contracts. That may be number one issue confronting the United States within the next few years. Can we put a stop to the destruction caused by these greedy and often vicious public unions? The very survival of America may depend on it.
# 1 bibio- “…those who are…in desperate need of state services?”
Name one.
If they had their priorities straight, they could address and provide for any legitimate one(s) you could possibly name, such as road and bridge repair, police, firefighters- all the other examples of “infrastructure” you and your ilk squealed about a year and a half ago when that Bridge collapsed in Minnesota, another big dem state with its officials and priorities on LSD.
Now ask yourself, where that 2 trillion dollars of “stimulus” went and whether any of it was prioritized for the genuine, actual, legitimate, needs of state or local government now that the walls are cracking at the seams?
Go ahead take your time.
Does the name “Apollo Group” ring a bell, or sound familiar to you. It should. But it doesn’t (of course).
Van Jones? No? Its called Google, check it out. You get a loolipop and some ice cream if you can pony up how much “stimu-louse” money he looted.
Can you do some arithmetic and come up with an estimate of how much 2 trillion dollars would be if it had been reserved for, say, Social security- per person? Or Medicare, or some of the bridges and “infrastructure” you and your ilk kept squealing about when that bridge in Minnesota collapsed a few years ago?
Can you quote the total (in trillions) of the cost to Medicare in terms of FRAUD and malfeasance alone?
And your looter in chief has the nerve and unmitigated gaul to toss off the inane line- “We are going to “control” costs…”
Shut up. Shut your festering gob, you tid.
Its always about the money with you parasites: you never acknowledge the amount of money wasted on your schemes of revenge, and its never enough anyway, you just plan different means to loot more once congress will no longer can get away with passing a bill its democrat members didn’t even bother to read in the first place anymore
Remember, keep it to legitimate needs of the entire citizenry of Rogues Island.