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  • From: Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] New Math, was The Deficit Threat
  • Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 16:46:52 -0700

I always wanted to attend one of those sex shows down in S. F., but it's too expensive. That was my original reason for being a Democrat, that it was the party of personal freedom. I suspect that's about to change (some more, that is). Could this be a preview of a future misguided Carrie Nation of Sex? Have you seen how CoNN has made that sex-hating, howling lib Nancy Grace into such a celeb? See, the libs strategy is not to repudiate their ridicuous stands on animal rights, etc., but to find an even redder herring elsewhere (don't even try to find a pun there).

At this point there's a question as to what "admin" even means. One has to clarify whether that means total overhead (unlikely, since those figures would outdo the very best charities) or just the administrators per se (i. e., people who do no case work, but spend their days supervising case workers). If you limit the definition of "admin" to supervisors salaries alone, then the exquisitely wasteful CalCommColl manages to appear to do about that well. Just the fact that you would throw out empty figures without such clarification suggests that you're just a sales machine for socialism. Even TV acknowledged the huge portion of our social security tax disappearing into the pockets of government employees, with their fake unions.

Every time there's a salary dispute locally between their "unions" and local officials, signs go up on about a quarter of the lawns. God help us all if that's how many government employees' union members and their lackies there are! But Lord knows, "management" always breaks down and gives them what them demand. IMO, every government employee except for a few special ones should have been signed on knowing that it was a temporary position.

Why not be honest with yourself and ask how much college education each California teenager would be able to afford if they just took the grossly misspent $5 billion for community colleges and divided it up among the million or so in that age group? I'd remind of you of how you lost every battle on that subject long ago, when we came right down to the figures. But unfortunately, no one's paying me to do this all day, and fall is a time of great activity.

Maybe if you can find a reliable source, you can find out for us the only number that really matters at all: the ratio of checks paid out to benefit receivers versus the total collections from paychecks. I suspect that the 3 BS numbers you threw out aren't even appropriate to be added together, right? Remember, people were sold SS on the premise that their money would earn HUGE compound interest in a HUGE locked box, and now it turns out that all they're doing is taking away the payments, taking out a large fraction for computers and salaries and such, and just redistributing the rest to benefit recipients. What a lie!

Lynda wrote:

Bill, why don't you worry a little bit more about Oregon and things like
being the only state in the union that says live sex acts are o.k. right
next to a school and worry a little less about what California may or may
not have done.







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