ultimauw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> On Nov 17, 1:06 pm, david_huang2...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>> http://www.law.virginia.edu/html/news/2006_spr/walker.htm
>>
>> The government must change how it does business now or the United
>> States will face a serious fiscal crisis in the future, said David
>> Walker, Comptroller General of the U.S. Government Accountability
>> Office (GAO), at the Conference on Public Service & the Law dinner
>> March 17. He challenged law students to take on the issues faced by
>> the government by getting involved in public service at some point in
>> their careers.
>>
>> "The United States government faces some serious challenges in the
>> 21st century," Walker warned. "Deficits, changing security threats,
>> demographics, quality-of-life concerns, rapidly evolving technology,
>> I
>> can go on and on and on."
>>
>> Plagued by waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement, the government
>> must
>> reconsider longstanding policies to sustain its superpower status and
>> leave the country better positioned for the future. "Washington is
>> out
>> of control," Walker asserted, not blaming anyone in particular. "I
>> mean this on a nonpartisan basis.
>>
>> "We could eliminate every dime of waste...and this nation would still
>> have large and growing structural deficits," Walker said. There are
>> "too many layers, too many players, too many turf battles, and too
>> many hardened silos."
>>
>> In order to make the necessary changes, the government needs more
>> leaders with courage, integrity, creativity, and stewardship and who
>> are willing to reform entitlement policies, namely Social Security,
>> Medicare, and Medicaid.
>
> NO! The gov't "reformed" welfare, and turned it into a criminal joke
> of a system, instead of being merely bad and rather pathetic compared
> to the rest of the western "industrialized" nations
>
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Responsibility_and_Work_Opportunity_Act
> (don't let the name fool you)
>
> What we need to do is to stop throwing endless amounts of money into
> the so called department of "defense", shut down corrupt, blank check
> agencies such as the CIA, stop the insane "war on drugs", and stop
> giving politicos all of the fancy perks they enjoy on tax payer
> dollars such as private jets and fancy hotel rooms. I am sick of this
> balancing the budget on the backs of the poor bullshit. If we need to
> trim the budget, start with the useless, destructive bloat at the TOP
Do the decent thing and set fire to yourself in 'protest' or sumfin,
child.
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