People in government positions are starting to be laid off in large numbers. As a matter of fact, jobs that normally would seem to be very secure are now getting eliminated. You don't need to look any further than your local post office to see that this is happening. I currently live in Lexington, Kentucky, and they are shutting down one of the main postal plants in town. Currently, the government is going shut down close to 3700 postal units nationwide. In my opinion, this is nothing more than grandstanding by the Republican Party to make it look like they are really trying to fix a problem, which is our national debt and deficit spending. When you start eliminating jobs that are vital to the economy, such as the post office, then it would follow suit that anybody else that has any kind of money coming from federal government is in a lot of trouble as well.
Is This the Beginning of the End for the United States Government?
Recently, to include the postal closings, there have been indicators that the United States government is just about insolvent. For one thing, we almost had a complete shutdown of the federal government because Congress and the Senate could not arrive at a budget proposal deal. Does this sound like a government that has enough money to function? And while we're at it and to add to all of this, recently there has been high-level meetings at the Pentagon and with our elected leaders to put military retirements on the table for approximately $9 billion in reductions. That's right, fighting men overseas that are getting their arms and legs blown off every day or at least have the threat of that, will not be able to get a 20 year retirement and the people that are currently retired are facing some sort of half baked revision. The government wants to give our fighting men and women some sort of weird 401(k) plan that they will not be able to draw on until they reach the age of 57! There has never been a time of my life while I was thoroughly convinced that this government is scrambling for every crazy idea that he can get its hands on to save themselves.
Charity Begins at Home
If you recall, Congress and the Senate decided to hand out bailout money to corporations in an effort to keep them afloat. One of the companies they had money over to was General Motors and that tax money went towards Chinese jobs. Yes, that's right, General Motors sent some of their factories overseas and hired Chinese laborers. So, even the money that the government gave as a bailout, went to foreign countries. Let's not forget all of the foreign countries we just hand money over to anyway. $100 million to Haiti for earthquake relief, over $2 billion what the Pakistan because they had a flood. We literally sent John Kerry and Hillary Clinton the flyover Pakistan to view the devastation. (I wonder how many of our government officials flew over New Orleans after it at a flood.) Over the last 10 years we've handed out $10 million alone to reform Chinese prostitutes. Yes, that's right, we handed over $10 million to reform Chinese prostitutes. I guess you could say, America is trying to buy its friends. Of course, this is not to mention the fact that the United States has a huge trade imbalance with China and we are actually afraid that it will somehow cause a war if we do not meet their demands every month. In my book, that is what you call extortion.
Write Your Representatives, Tell Them that Charity Begins in the Home!!!
CNN Postal Story Link: http://money.cnn.com/2011/07/26/news/economy/post_office_closings/index.htm
Military Retirement Story Link: http://militaryadvantage.military.com/2011/09/military-retirement-watch-sept-19/
U.S. Dollars to Reform Chinese Prostitutes Link: http://www.cnsnews.com/node/47976
Clinton to Give Libya Aid:
http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/1011/surprise_visit_acef1a63-9207-4256-9442-a75f4b2ba0e4.html
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