EXAMPLES OF WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY

EXAMPLE NO. 1   WASTEFUL GOVERNMENT SPENDING

Beetlemania: Feds Give 4 States $5.8 Million to Protect Insect Habitat
Thursday, August 25, 2011
By Terence P. Jeffrey

(CNSNews.com) - The U.S. Department of Interior announced this week that it is giving four states $5,802,180 in grants for projects that are designed in whole or in part to protect various types of threatened or endangered beetles. 

The largest of these grants is a $2,426,055 award to the state of Maryland to help protect the habitat of the Puritan tiger beetle, a threatened insect that inhabits beaches and bluffs along Chesapeake Bay in Maryland as well as along the Connecticut River in New England.

The $5.8 million in grants that will help four states protect beetles are part of a group of 48 grants totaling $53.3 million that the Interior Department said on Wednesday will go to 17 states to develop conservation plans or purchase or preserve land determined to be habitat for species that have been listed as threatened or endangered under the federal Endangered Species Act.

EXAMPLE NO.2    OUTRAGEOUS UNION PRACTICES

In fiscal 2009, the Postal Service logged over 1.2 million hours in standby time. The U.S. Postal Service, which expects to lose $7 billion this year, spent $4.3 million on employees who did nothing in the first half of the year because of requirements in union agreements, an audit found.  The amount paid for so-called standby time has “significantly decreased,” down tens of millions of dollars from the amount spent just a couple of years ago, says The Washington Post, which obtained a copy of an audit.

Labor agreements mandate that postal employees have a certain amount of guaranteed work hours, which means that they cannot be laid off during periods of low mail volume or unplanned events like the breakdown of equipment. This leads to “standby time,” in which employees spend the day doing nothing — for example, waiting in a cafeteria or breakroom.

In fiscal 2009, the Postal Service logged over 1.2 million hours in standby time, costing the agency more than $30 million. This declined to around $20 million in 2010 and is on track to be less than $10 million this year.  The report explains the decrease in standby time by saying that the employee workforce has been reduced in size over the past two years to more appropriately align with expected workload.  However, auditors found a significant amount of Postal Service officials who did not always record standby time properly, which led to improper overtime charges.

Despite a decline in the number of hours that workers are paid to do nothing, the U.S. Postal Service remains in deep financial trouble. In the recently concluded third quarter of fiscal 2011, the agency lost $3.1 billion. “The growth in electronic communications continues to erode core first-class mail volume,” the Postal Service said in a recent release.

EXAMPLE NO. 3    LAZY STUPID WELFARE DEPENDENT DUMB MASSES



EXAMPLE NO. 4    NEED MORE BE SAID?

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