"Fire Them All..."
A Nation of Fools by Peary Perry (www.pearyperry.com)
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“Fire them all…”
Over the past thirty or forty years, I’ve hired and fired a good number of people. Hiring is easy, firing is hard. When you’re hiring, you’re giving someone a chance and a hope that their actions (as well as yours) will lead everyone to a more productive lifestyle. Firing someone is somewhat more difficult since you know your actions are going to cause stress on someone’s life and most likely their family. If you hired someone by mistake (mine) and they really were not cut out for the job position, you could not help but feel sorry for them because you had to let them go. They should not have been hired in the first place, but often times you just were hoping they could pull it together and make the cut.
The only time you didn’t mind firing someone is when you had put your faith and trust in them and they have let you down. They either failed to do what they were hired to do or they were totally unresponsive to your instructions concerning their job descriptions. The folks who fit into this category were never an issue with me. Shame on them for taking my money and my time. Good riddance.
The people in Washington fit the second category. An argument can be made in light of Senator Bunning’s’ actions these past several days. Senator Bunning is not running for re-election and effectively stopped the extension of the unemployment payments by asking how the congress expected to pay for the benefits. For this he has been called every name in the book. The liberals have pounced on Senator Bunning as if he were the anti-Christ and the foulest monster known to mankind. The senator was merely asking the congress to live up to their own rules imposed a few weeks ago to pay for any new benefits ‘as you go’. It’s obvious the liberals (and some Republicans) are uncomfortable with actually putting this concept into action. Let’s talk a good game, but carry on business as usual. Meanwhile the national debt is approaching 13 trillion dollars and once the unfunded liabilities are factored in, we have a debt in this country equal to over 4 times our total gross domestic product. The various unfunded liabilities are as follows:
OASDI (Social Security) (7,677)
Medicare Part A (13,770)
Medicare Part B (17,165)
Medicare Part D (7,172)
Unfunded Liabilities (45,784)
Net Explicit Debt (11,456)
Total Debt and Unfunded Liabilities (57,240)
GDP 9/2009 14,242
Ratio 402%
Hiding some forms of debt is as old as the hills; anyone who has ever borrowed money for a corporation knows how this game is played. You lease rather than buy, and the balance of the lease is not shown anywhere, but believe me it’s there if you want to drop out and go home. A good CPA will tell you that accounting is an art not a science. The government employs the same people; they know how the shell game is played.
It appears so do the members of the United States Congress, they want to continue to play this old game until they get their money and head for the hills. They don’t think we’re smart enough to figure out what is happening. We’re too stupid to know anything or be able to do anything about their actions.
They are not listening to us. They are not paying attention to what we are saying. They are not following our directions.
They need to be fired.
They need to be replaced with individuals who will listen to what we’re saying to them. They need to respect the wishes and thoughts of the voters in their districts. Members of Congress ( Baron Hill) who make statements such as … “This is MY town hall meeting and you Will abide by MY rules…” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtmgQ2W3lhM) should be sent home and kicked out of their political revelry. This is not representation in any way shape or form. This is pure distain for the voting public.
Do not let this moment in time pass, keep up the pressure, talk to people, e-mail your friends, stop watching sit-coms and watch the news on every channel, make noise….if enough of us bang the drums….someone will hear.
Comments go to pperry@austin.rr.com
Complaints go nowhere.
(sign up for new articles at www.pearyperry.com)
(sign up for new articles at www.pearyperry.com)
“Fire them all…”
Over the past thirty or forty years, I’ve hired and fired a good number of people. Hiring is easy, firing is hard. When you’re hiring, you’re giving someone a chance and a hope that their actions (as well as yours) will lead everyone to a more productive lifestyle. Firing someone is somewhat more difficult since you know your actions are going to cause stress on someone’s life and most likely their family. If you hired someone by mistake (mine) and they really were not cut out for the job position, you could not help but feel sorry for them because you had to let them go. They should not have been hired in the first place, but often times you just were hoping they could pull it together and make the cut.
The only time you didn’t mind firing someone is when you had put your faith and trust in them and they have let you down. They either failed to do what they were hired to do or they were totally unresponsive to your instructions concerning their job descriptions. The folks who fit into this category were never an issue with me. Shame on them for taking my money and my time. Good riddance.
The people in Washington fit the second category. An argument can be made in light of Senator Bunning’s’ actions these past several days. Senator Bunning is not running for re-election and effectively stopped the extension of the unemployment payments by asking how the congress expected to pay for the benefits. For this he has been called every name in the book. The liberals have pounced on Senator Bunning as if he were the anti-Christ and the foulest monster known to mankind. The senator was merely asking the congress to live up to their own rules imposed a few weeks ago to pay for any new benefits ‘as you go’. It’s obvious the liberals (and some Republicans) are uncomfortable with actually putting this concept into action. Let’s talk a good game, but carry on business as usual. Meanwhile the national debt is approaching 13 trillion dollars and once the unfunded liabilities are factored in, we have a debt in this country equal to over 4 times our total gross domestic product. The various unfunded liabilities are as follows:
OASDI (Social Security) (7,677)
Medicare Part A (13,770)
Medicare Part B (17,165)
Medicare Part D (7,172)
Unfunded Liabilities (45,784)
Net Explicit Debt (11,456)
Total Debt and Unfunded Liabilities (57,240)
GDP 9/2009 14,242
Ratio 402%
Hiding some forms of debt is as old as the hills; anyone who has ever borrowed money for a corporation knows how this game is played. You lease rather than buy, and the balance of the lease is not shown anywhere, but believe me it’s there if you want to drop out and go home. A good CPA will tell you that accounting is an art not a science. The government employs the same people; they know how the shell game is played.
It appears so do the members of the United States Congress, they want to continue to play this old game until they get their money and head for the hills. They don’t think we’re smart enough to figure out what is happening. We’re too stupid to know anything or be able to do anything about their actions.
They are not listening to us. They are not paying attention to what we are saying. They are not following our directions.
They need to be fired.
They need to be replaced with individuals who will listen to what we’re saying to them. They need to respect the wishes and thoughts of the voters in their districts. Members of Congress ( Baron Hill) who make statements such as … “This is MY town hall meeting and you Will abide by MY rules…” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtmgQ2W3lhM) should be sent home and kicked out of their political revelry. This is not representation in any way shape or form. This is pure distain for the voting public.
Do not let this moment in time pass, keep up the pressure, talk to people, e-mail your friends, stop watching sit-coms and watch the news on every channel, make noise….if enough of us bang the drums….someone will hear.
Comments go to pperry@austin.rr.com
Complaints go nowhere.
(sign up for new articles at www.pearyperry.com)
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Comment by Peary Perry on March 6, 2010 at 12:32pm
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we cannot...must not continue to promise to take care of everyone from cradle to grave.....today our state (Texas) changed the rules so that if you owe a fine for a traffic ticket or DWI and are poor...your fines will be reduced....because 'they' don't have the means to pay the fine....this is simply crazy..the governments are forcing those who want to work and succeed to become the poor in order to survive....this is not the America I want to live in.....
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Comment by Thomas C. Roe on March 6, 2010 at 7:36am -
"fire them all" isn't a bad place to start when you have a huge mess at hand. We all know the cliche that the "prospect of the gallows focuses the mind" and I've found that to be true. We are in a financial and political crises made slightly more tolerable by unprecedented spending. A family member prone to excitment has been telling me since late 2008 that our economic difficulties would generate serious civil disturbances. I've said not likely. The Middle Class doesn't hit the streets over anything and the former-Working Class has been recieving $300-500 a week from Uncle Sugar. No serious pain-no serious change. In Congress we have to sharpen the ideological debate between The Right and The Wrong. "Fire them all" will focus the minds of our friends which I would argue is our first task.
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a gift today...is a due tomorrow..
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Comment by William S Nelson on March 5, 2010 at 4:20pm -
Oh, much further in debt. And when your debt reaches your GDP, this is, at a minimum, a psychological tipping point. Internal debt, such as borrowing from the social security fund, costs less to service, and you have some leeway in skipping payments. But it is mor difficult yo stiff the creditors (your citizens).
My biggest issue would be the entitlements. We have to get people to know that no one is entitled to anything, which is a core conservative political philosophy belief. A hard case to make.
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probably correct...but will we or won't we be further in debt in the years to come?
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Comment by William S Nelson on March 4, 2010 at 4:15pm
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Sen. Bunning is not seeking re-election because the GOP believed he would lose the seat, based on polling (Bunning polled poorly). With Bunning gone, the GOP has a chance to keep the seat from the democrats. Does providing a more viable candidate (again, based on polling) serve the public interest? Possibly.
The basic flaw, or serious flaw, in your argument is that voters cannot elect the right people, thus, a representative democracy is a poor form of government. This is why term limits are bad: it assumes that the people cannot make good decisions. I find that a difficult position to support.
You unfunded liabilities data is misleading, it is comparing multi-year liabilities against a single years GDP. Today, all of our debt does not equal one years GDP, and the debt must be separated as internal and external.
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thanks...keep on reading..
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Comment by Alan Caruba on March 3, 2010 at 5:09pm -
One only hopes that A LOT OF PEOPLE get to read this commentary. It reveals just why America is headed for the cliff.
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