The Reaganomics Fraud:

[WODIN]

Oh yea..Roads. Another form of Socialism in America.

 

[mrplunkey]

Oh yea..Roads. Another form of Socialism in America.

The entire DoT runs about $79B.

Barry wants to spend $3.82T next year.

Nice work focusing on 2% of the total budget.

I miss Bush deficits.

 

[Mr. dB]

BC: "Well, FDA came through and want us to redo the entire lighting system. Even though the fluorescent lights are 25 feet high, CFR 389823-F says that every flourescent light must have a plastic cover that meets ASTM standard 938823-L-8. That's going to cost us $125,000 or we can always fight it in court."

BC: "Then there's the sexual harassment lawsuit. Apparently the assistant to the plant manager told a secretary that she looks nice in green. That's going to run us about $100,000 or we can always fight it in court."

BC: "Then there's the product liability lawsuit. Even though we stitched the product up and put a label over the stitches explicitly stating not to put the product on backwards, the customer removed the label, cut-out the stitches and put it on backwards, even as our sales rep begged them not to do it. That's going to cost us another $150,000 or we can always fight it in court."

BC: "Then there's the worker's comp claim. As we were calling Joe in to fire him (he's been on probation for the last 9 months), he decided he hurt his back opening the door to the conference room. He's been spotted playing basketball with his buddies, but officially he's at home on disability. That's going to cost us $75,000 or we can always fight it in court."

BC: "Then there's OSHA. The requirements are that a stop button must be no less than 2.5" in diameter. Our machines are from Japan and the buttons are 6cm which is 0.35cm too small. They insist we replace all of those, which is another $100,000 or we can always fight it in court."

BC: "Then there's DoL. Apparently we didn't track our Vietnam veteran applicants properly. You aren't allowed to ask them where they served during the interview, but you are allowed to ask them how long. DoL is willing to settle for $250,000 or we can always fight it in court."

$800,000. Is a corporate expense like that really enough to force you to start making personnel and relocation type decisions? Can't you just have one quarter with sucky profits and then move on?

 

[WODIN]

The entire DoT runs about $79B.

Barry wants to spend $3.82T next year.

Nice work focusing on 2% of the total budget.

I miss Bush deficits.

IF you haven't noticed our infrastructure has been neglected for over 20 years and is in dire need of repair and upgrade.

 

[mrplunkey]

IF you haven't noticed our infrastructure has been neglected for over 20 years and is in dire need of repair and upgrade.

Well of course it is screwed-up. It's brought to us by the same people who did Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, the US Postal Service, Public Education and every other screwed-up agency we have.

It boggles my mind how some people want to shovel even more money down a rathole that clearly has no bottom. Government is the ultimate example of "failing up" -- the worse they do, the more money they get.

 

[mrplunkey]

$800,000. Is a corporate expense like that really enough to force you to start making personnel and relocation type decisions? Can't you just have one quarter with sucky profits and then move on?

Next quarter there will be another $800k. The details change, but the overall theme doesn't.

And no, one "sucky" quarter never goes over well.

Most people don't realize the vast amount of regulatory tools that federal agencies have. The goal isn't to establish some gold standard for businesses. The goal is to give these agencies enough leverage to get basically anything they want. The CFR's are intentionally written very vaguely for exactly that purpose.

 

[the.gladiator1987]

plunkey i never understand what u say or even know what any of it means, but you sound very smart and I would listen to you if u ever gave me advice, id really appreciate more feedback from you on my threads I would contribute to yours but they wouldnt mean shit

 

[Redrocker13]

Well of course it is screwed-up. It's brought to us by the same people who did Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, the US Postal Service, Public Education and every other screwed-up agency we have.

It boggles my mind how some people want to shovel even more money down a rathole that clearly has no bottom. Government is the ultimate example of "failing up" -- the worse they do, the more money they get.[/QUOTE]


There you have it ladies and gentlemen. Thats the problem in a nutshell. And by the way, in the last fifty years, the entity which controls the federal purse strings (the house and senate) has been controlled by conservatives (loosely described) for an ever so brief period in the nineties. It also happens to be the only time the budgets were supposedly balanced and a surplus recorded. Odd huh?

Like it or not, it is liberal policies which are killing our country. I give them credit though...they truly know how to frame an argument in their favor.

 

[Mr. dB]

Next quarter there will be another $800k. The details change, but the overall theme doesn't.

And no, one "sucky" quarter never goes over well.

One has to wonder about the viability of your business model then.

 

[PICK3]

plunkey i never understand what u say or even know what any of it means, but you sound very smart and I would listen to you if u ever gave me advice, id really appreciate more feedback from you on my threads I would contribute to yours but they wouldnt mean shit

If you can't add anything constructive to his threads, just call him a homo or better yet ... PM him some cawk pics

he really thrives on that