I remember in the '60s working at Pirro's - my hand-spinning pizza job in San Francisco - and once a year, mushrooms were almost non-existent because of reseeding the beds in Kennett Square. At the time, Pennsylvania was our only source of mushrooms.
My dream tonight would be for every Democrat to show up - and the minute Vice President Vonshitzinpants walked in - they would walk out and hold the REAL State of the Union Address on the steps of the Capitol.
Alas, they won't, because they still think times are normal and decorum rules the day. Back when I was in the Navy, the adage was "You don’t have to respect the person, but you respect the uniform." I didn't believe it then, either.
Excellent points! also, a thought, most people who support 'shrinking the government' seem to not connect the dots on. most government expenditures go to labor, in one form or another. (and occasionally to obscene profits), but when you slash a million dollars out of a federal budget, that is 25-30 people who lose there jobs. that labor/payroll has tghese effects:
1) the service being provided by those employees is either eliminated or greatly curtailed as it is now pushed onto the plate of the remaining employees. A lot of folks think cutting the serviec is a great idea because they were probably just promoting a 'woke' idea. but the truth is most federal jobs help farmers, small businesses, and even large American companies to stay more competitive in a global economy, the sick, weak and elderly, often one persons work will impact more than one of these areas.
2) and so many folks miss this part, that $35,000 - $50,000 that so many federal jobs pay, is spent in the local and national economy. the employee shops at walmart, and bobs burger barn, the neighborhood plant nursery, mcds and starbucks, the local bookstore, and for services like childcare, haircuts, etc. the $35K is sent, and goes into businesses and workers pockets, to be spent again at Wegmans and whole foods and paneras and burger king, and those dollars go int he pockets of the owners and workers and is spent again, as you can see those 35k turn into 3-4 times, so we 'save' 35K we lose the benefit, as in thois case a safer more stabler production of mushrooms (I am a 'wild about mushrooms' kinda a guy, but i hate beets, but would feel almost ss strongly about a usda programs to help beet farmers), so we have the loss of a useful person, and we lose 100-150k in the local econnomy, meaning for every $millionn dollarswe 'save' we now have, at least temporarily 25-30 unemployed people who are through no fault of their own a burden on society, and along with them, we, or our family or neighbors lose over 100 other decent jobs. oh and it cascades, those 100 will cost us other jobs. so your million dollar savings just wreacked the local economy. of course in a large urban setting, these jobs dont make a dent, except to the few hundred people directly effected, but in a small town, the local USDA inspectors, researchers and even the extention office, will have a huge impact on the'mushroom farmers' (insert cotton, soybeean, cattle, hogs, chicken, pine trees, etc.) and on the local grocery, the local hardware, literally in a town of a thousand people, you cut 5-10 jobs from local offices of federal agencies, creating a net loss of not only critical services, but 3-5% of the local economy. That makes a difference, especially as rural settings tend to have less well funded state and local safety nets.
I remember in the '60s working at Pirro's - my hand-spinning pizza job in San Francisco - and once a year, mushrooms were almost non-existent because of reseeding the beds in Kennett Square. At the time, Pennsylvania was our only source of mushrooms.
My dream tonight would be for every Democrat to show up - and the minute Vice President Vonshitzinpants walked in - they would walk out and hold the REAL State of the Union Address on the steps of the Capitol.
Alas, they won't, because they still think times are normal and decorum rules the day. Back when I was in the Navy, the adage was "You don’t have to respect the person, but you respect the uniform." I didn't believe it then, either.
Congress hasn't sued because der Fuehrer dictates "Nein"!
Excellent points! also, a thought, most people who support 'shrinking the government' seem to not connect the dots on. most government expenditures go to labor, in one form or another. (and occasionally to obscene profits), but when you slash a million dollars out of a federal budget, that is 25-30 people who lose there jobs. that labor/payroll has tghese effects:
1) the service being provided by those employees is either eliminated or greatly curtailed as it is now pushed onto the plate of the remaining employees. A lot of folks think cutting the serviec is a great idea because they were probably just promoting a 'woke' idea. but the truth is most federal jobs help farmers, small businesses, and even large American companies to stay more competitive in a global economy, the sick, weak and elderly, often one persons work will impact more than one of these areas.
2) and so many folks miss this part, that $35,000 - $50,000 that so many federal jobs pay, is spent in the local and national economy. the employee shops at walmart, and bobs burger barn, the neighborhood plant nursery, mcds and starbucks, the local bookstore, and for services like childcare, haircuts, etc. the $35K is sent, and goes into businesses and workers pockets, to be spent again at Wegmans and whole foods and paneras and burger king, and those dollars go int he pockets of the owners and workers and is spent again, as you can see those 35k turn into 3-4 times, so we 'save' 35K we lose the benefit, as in thois case a safer more stabler production of mushrooms (I am a 'wild about mushrooms' kinda a guy, but i hate beets, but would feel almost ss strongly about a usda programs to help beet farmers), so we have the loss of a useful person, and we lose 100-150k in the local econnomy, meaning for every $millionn dollarswe 'save' we now have, at least temporarily 25-30 unemployed people who are through no fault of their own a burden on society, and along with them, we, or our family or neighbors lose over 100 other decent jobs. oh and it cascades, those 100 will cost us other jobs. so your million dollar savings just wreacked the local economy. of course in a large urban setting, these jobs dont make a dent, except to the few hundred people directly effected, but in a small town, the local USDA inspectors, researchers and even the extention office, will have a huge impact on the'mushroom farmers' (insert cotton, soybeean, cattle, hogs, chicken, pine trees, etc.) and on the local grocery, the local hardware, literally in a town of a thousand people, you cut 5-10 jobs from local offices of federal agencies, creating a net loss of not only critical services, but 3-5% of the local economy. That makes a difference, especially as rural settings tend to have less well funded state and local safety nets.