There are some great ones floating about in email. But, they needed a little, erm, "tuning" to make them appeal to a broader audience...
But wait! There's more! Just as the mujis flex and adapt, and sharks learn to fly - so too, do we learn to flex and adapt. For every problem, there's a solution.
Remember, though, if you're a government, and your only tool is the military, then every problem starts looking like a target. How 'bout beefing up those other agencies with people willing to go live in places that aren't always the most comfortable, doing work that isn't always just shuffling digits around?
Of course, If you're a politician, those solutions always cost lots of OPM dollars (Other People's Money), rarely much of yours. Heh. Mebbe they'd be more careful if we docked their pensions every year the deficit was over 500 billion dollars. After all, *we* have to cut back when we overspend... Make 'em think about the out-years, anyway.
H/t, Denizen Boquisucio
But wait! There's more! Just as the mujis flex and adapt, and sharks learn to fly - so too, do we learn to flex and adapt. For every problem, there's a solution.
Remember, though, if you're a government, and your only tool is the military, then every problem starts looking like a target. How 'bout beefing up those other agencies with people willing to go live in places that aren't always the most comfortable, doing work that isn't always just shuffling digits around?
Of course, If you're a politician, those solutions always cost lots of OPM dollars (Other People's Money), rarely much of yours. Heh. Mebbe they'd be more careful if we docked their pensions every year the deficit was over 500 billion dollars. After all, *we* have to cut back when we overspend... Make 'em think about the out-years, anyway.
H/t, Denizen Boquisucio
I wonder if ANY of the 535 gutless wonders in there now would even introduce a bill along the lines of:
"Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, no member of Congress shall receive credit towards retirement for any fiscal year they served in Congress in which
(a) the budget deficit exceeded $1; or
(b) for which appropriation bills were not passed, and signed into law for all departments and agencies prior to the first day of that fiscal year.
Me thinks that I fall on the second category. But thanks for mistaking the light as my own.
On a slightly more serious note, last year Fred Thompson mentioned several times we've let Voice of America get anemic. Wouldn't that be one very good way to spread our ideas to the non-Anglophone world? I'm thinking of Iran just now.
Did I give my age way?
Cheers