Just as I was shuffling out of the venue, one mushroom-headed beanpole tapped me on the arm and said, “Thanks for giving us your wisdom tonight,” he said, as I tried stifling a giggle. “Because no one ever tells it to us straight.” They never do, do they?
Problems don’t go away because you don’t talk about them. Talking about them is an essential prerequisite to progress.
Whether you love it or loathe it, this is Nationalist policy with a capital N. The election just got a whole lot more interesting.
Every benefit-paying agency in the federal government has near-term deadlines to identify their most fraud-prone programs and start screening recipients for things like… you know… being alive.
Every now and then an act of government incompetence and waste is so egregious that it’s enough to wake the beast within.
Delaying pension contributions may ease immediate pressure on New York City’s budget, but the shell game reveals deeper weaknesses in the city’s finances.
As the media, through their newsrooms and reporters, refuse to do their jobs and report balanced news, we are reliant on contributing writers to ferret out the honesty of what is happening.
What is it with these people? If it was their own money, would they squander it so?
On the face of it, MSD has no empathy for Covid fraudsters but no end of empathy for beneficiary fraudsters. So much for a neutral public service.
Oh, for the good old days when Australia was government debt-free.
The point here isn’t to argue whether Jeff Bezos should or shouldn’t pay more tax. The point is that Congress’s approach is entirely wrong. They should instead invest their energy into ensuring maximum productivity… which ultimately means fewer regulations, and in general staying out of the way.
This is the opposite of what they should be doing. And instead of figuring out how to live within their means, they just demand more resources… even though it never works. Britain tried its 98 per cent tax experiment in the 1970s and spent a decade regretting it.
