April 13, 2011

A modest proposal

Denny at Grouchy Old Cripple has a list of ten ways to cut spending. Here are the first five:
Howza 'bout I take a crack at some spending cuts?
1. Eliminate the Department of Education. It is a money pit. Education in this country has not improved since the establishment of this cesspool. It was a sop to teachers unions by the incompetent Jimmah Carter.

2. Cut agriculture subsidies. Most of them go to agribusiness corporations and not family farms.

3. Eliminate the stupid ethanol program. Making fuel out of food is a dumb idea. It's even dumber that a gummint going bankrupt subsidizes this bullshit.

4. While we're at it, eliminate all of these stupid green programs. They're a waste of money. instead...

5. Drill baby, drill! Drill here, drill there, drill everywhere. It will provide jobs which cuts unemployment and creates more taxpayers. Tell the enviro-buttheads to fuck off! The idiots in California just passed a law that sez they have to get 1/3 of their electricity from renewable resources by 2020. Hello brownouts and rolling blackouts. These people really do believe in Poof! PFM! California continues to commit suicide right before our very eyes.
Works for me -- the other five are just as good. A reader named quiller offers this sugestion:
Thanks, Denny.

I propose thinning out the federal work force with a simple lottery. Winners get the no-bag-limit hunting permits to shoot displaced federal leeches. Put a few of them to work tossing others into the Grand Canyon, and then lay a few feet of quicklime.

They'll make terrific fertilizer.
Heh... Posted by DaveH at April 13, 2011 9:07 PM
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