Showing posts with label productivity loss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label productivity loss. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Friday, May 18, 2012
Beer Friday
It's Friday, Craig! So in celebration I am going to drink some beers, the flavor of the day is Miller Lite (due to carb restriction). I wonder if drinking 12 beers will make me want to do anything productive tomorrow? Also thatredneckswife is out so I am without supervision. Bring on the hunting shows and hangovers!
Thursday, May 17, 2012
100 Visitors!
I have reached the pinnacle of blogging, 100 visitors. Thanks to everyone who made this possible... Miller Lite, http://thatredneckswife.blogspot.com/, and the baby (not necessarily in that order). So upon this wonderful day, I encourage you to click the ads on this site to support my blogging habit.
Thank y'all for reading my nonsense...I'm still surprised that I don't have any comments on any of my posts. Guess that means that at least 100 people agree with me.
Thank y'all for reading my nonsense...I'm still surprised that I don't have any comments on any of my posts. Guess that means that at least 100 people agree with me.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Greece
The government of Greece has been on a spending spree for the last few decades and are like a crack addict unable to kick the habit. Bank runs have hit Greece, it amazes me that people are surprised. I am surprised that it hasn't happened sooner.
This is what happens when you have out of control spending by government and proof that socialism doesn't work. Allowing the government to pay for as much of your life as possible is easy, but the money has to come from somewhere. The debt of Greece has become so large that they are going to default and leave the Euro in hopes of salvaging their economy.
The US is no different, with current policies in place riddled with run-away spending there is no other end except for default. We can't continue to increase the debt ceiling every time we want, the ceiling is there for a reason, to make us stay within our means (that sounds comical when we have debt in excess of 15 trillion). A budget should not include mandatory increases every year in spending and finding more ways to spend taxpayer money.
If we want to reign in spending and pay down the debt, we need to spend less than we take in as a country. This does not mean "everybody paying their fair share" that means government not spending everyone's fair share on $20,000 toilets and $5,000 hammers. Now I will admit that socialism sounds sexy on paper, retire at 45 with full pay...awesome, but you can pull that off by working your ass off and saving your money.
My solution, for what its worth (a government hammer), is put in place a flat tax. That is truly the only way "everyone pays their fair share". We also need to freeze spending, I mean freeze, no automatic increase for inflation or any other political games. We then need to freeze the pay for all politicians, no raises until the budget is set to bring some of this spending under control. Lastly we need to get a budget that covers a year worth of government spending, none of the nonsense of cutting 25 million (over 15 years).
This is what happens when you have out of control spending by government and proof that socialism doesn't work. Allowing the government to pay for as much of your life as possible is easy, but the money has to come from somewhere. The debt of Greece has become so large that they are going to default and leave the Euro in hopes of salvaging their economy.
The US is no different, with current policies in place riddled with run-away spending there is no other end except for default. We can't continue to increase the debt ceiling every time we want, the ceiling is there for a reason, to make us stay within our means (that sounds comical when we have debt in excess of 15 trillion). A budget should not include mandatory increases every year in spending and finding more ways to spend taxpayer money.
If we want to reign in spending and pay down the debt, we need to spend less than we take in as a country. This does not mean "everybody paying their fair share" that means government not spending everyone's fair share on $20,000 toilets and $5,000 hammers. Now I will admit that socialism sounds sexy on paper, retire at 45 with full pay...awesome, but you can pull that off by working your ass off and saving your money.
My solution, for what its worth (a government hammer), is put in place a flat tax. That is truly the only way "everyone pays their fair share". We also need to freeze spending, I mean freeze, no automatic increase for inflation or any other political games. We then need to freeze the pay for all politicians, no raises until the budget is set to bring some of this spending under control. Lastly we need to get a budget that covers a year worth of government spending, none of the nonsense of cutting 25 million (over 15 years).
Monday, May 7, 2012
Best Wife Ever
Came home today to learn that the wife had purchased the outdoor channel trifecta from Dish. My TV watching has now expanded from Fox news to Fox news + Outdoor channel + Sportsman channel and World Fishing network. Productivity just dropped by 15%
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