Probably cheaper for society than paying her to actual do things...
She doesn't do anything now, she just meanders around and babbles a lot...
Baroness Ashton will be entitled to £400,000 at the taxpayer's expense over three years for doing nothing after finishing her five year term as the European Union's foreign minister at the end of 2014. From her Wiki On the one hand, critics say she is likely to be out of her depth, never having been elected to any office. For example, on her appointment, the associate editor of The Spectator, and former editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Rod Liddle, wrote: "Never elected by anyone, anywhere, totally unqualified for almost every job she has done, she has risen to her current position presumably through a combination of down-the-line Stalinist political correctness and the fact that she has the charisma of a caravan site on the Isle of Sheppey."[31] According to The Guardian, an anonymous Whitehall source remarked: "Cathy just got lucky...The appointment of her and Herman Van Rompuy [as European Council president] was a complete disgrace. They are no more than garden gnomes
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...well tough luck for the Baroness. All the similar paying jobs [unqualified, unelected, PC rewards] have closed in Detroit. Things are getting hard all around. Maybe she can get a chair position in SEIU. That'll at least match her skill criteria and get her invites to the White House.
No that's not what he means. Caravan sites are for people who go on holiday in the UK with our "wonderful" whetherweather.
The Isle of Sheppey is known for it's lack of bridges and prisons.
[NBCBAYAREA] A philanthropist or business could sponsor a police beat and put more off-duty cops on the streets under a plan being put forth by a downtown reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... politician on the City Council.
Alderman Brendan Reilly originally pitched the idea last October but is pushing it again following weekend incidents of teen mob activity on the Magnificent Mile, an upscale area of the city.
Under his plan, off-duty officers would work minimum six-hour shifts and make $30 an hour. The money would be paid by businesses, civic groups and churches at a time when city finances are stretched thin. The officers would be in full uniform and under the command of police supervisors.
"This is a way to make use of well-trained coppers who are moonlighting doing other things, bringing them back on the street to do what they do best, which is great police work," Reilly said.
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I don't think the mob has the financial obligations or retirement plan the city has. With lower overhead and much swifter justice, the rule of competition would imply a new 'sheriff' may be soon in town. I doubt seriously the ACLU will be filing suits on behalf of various grievance groups against that type of sheriff.
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Another way of thinking of this is "private law", or the Pinkertonization of sections of the Chicago PD. As the actual government budget for the police is devoured by the pension monster, Chicago in general will see fewer and fewer cops on the beat overall - this is a way for the respectable and moneyed sections of Chicago to avoid the general disorder without having to fight it out in the political and bureaucratic arenas, where they're at an organizational disadvantage.
Trust me, the left will be screaming about this in six months when they finish doing the math and realize that they gave up political leverage in doing this. I'm surprised that this minarchist scheme was aired in Chicago, I guess somebody was looking at Detroit and thinking "we don't want that to be us".
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...I've seen this movie - doesn't it end with some robotic police officer fighting some bad guys?
Mike
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With the Treasury needing this year to see another $1 trillion in debt to finance the anticipated federal budget deficit, and the Federal Reserve about to discontinue its 2009 program of buying Treasury bonds for the Feds asset portfolio, the Obama administration is scrambling to find ways to sell government debt without having to raise interest rates.
I heard a term used on teevee last night that was even more troubling, it was "multi-generational Social Security recipients".
This attempt is nothing more than the Coastal Aristocrats and their public sector clerisy footsoldiers trying to solve the debt problem without having their own material finances and/or anxiety levels affected.
AKA, stealing from the productive private sector to fix a problem they created.
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it was "multi-generational Social Security recipients".
It's early in the morning Besoeker, and I'm clearly not thinking very well yet. What on earth is that intended to mean?
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Well TW, if your poor old dad were still alive at 93 and you are 62 or older... I suppose both you could potentially be deemed "multi-generational Social Security recipients".
The good news is, we're living longer. The bad news is, the government's Social Security "Insurance" Ponzi scheme [which you've paid into to for 40-50 years or longer] has been plundered and bankrupted.
By the way, no mention at all was made in the broadcast I viewed of "multi-generational" welfare recipients, which appear to be a very large part of the current problem. Of course the broadcast journalist was a vivacious young brunette, obviously schooled not to look scornfully upon, or make deriding comments about societal parasites. Old people who should already be dirt napping are fair game however.
Got to PJM and read his latest. Truly awesome even for him.
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"multi-generational Social Security recipients"
Given the exploding number of Social Security Disability recipients (almost tripled in the past 10 years or less) I am quite sure we have families of 4 generations ALL on some kind of Social Security.
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If the government forces 401(k)s & IRAs to be 'invested' in government-debt-backed annuities, then stock prices for all - including union pensions etc. - will collapse as $1 trillion worth of investment demand for stock from IRAs is diverted.
The government borrowing WILL be paid, whether explicitly (unlikely) or hidden somewhere, and the payment WILL come from those who have the money, either income or savings. Savings is just an illusion, an attempt to take society's current surplus productivity and put it aside as a claim against society's future productivity. If there's no surplus productivity at one end or the other of the exchange, the exchange cannot take place.
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I've always thought that a reasonable way to pump more money into SS would be to make ALL people pay into it.
All those Federal, State and Local employees should have there SS contributions calculated retroactively and then that amount removed from whatever pension system they're in. Going forward they continue to pony up like the rest of us.
Should even help with the unfunded pension liability of the states and cities as the amount would be deducted from their liability...at least after the bill was paid to SSA ;^)
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The government borrowing WILL be paid, whether explicitly (unlikely) or hidden somewhere, and the payment WILL come from those who have the money, either income or savings.
Behold the Cyprus Effect. Roosevelt and Stalin must be smiling.
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Thank you for explaining, Besoeker. Daddy died a few days after his 90th birthday in 2009, when I was 48, but I'd give even odds Mama actually does make it to 120 -- her mother's older brother died at 107. And Mr. Wife's mother wasn't yet 18 when he was born, which is a more normal interval for the baby boom generation, so in time he'll be one part of that multi-generation Social Security recipient thingy, too. Fortunately, Mama worked until she was in her 70s as an occupational therapist before it occurred to anyone to check the records for her actual age and made her retire, and I'm eighteen months short of paid employment to be able to receive SS on my own account, so there will be a savings to the system there to offset my side of the family at least.
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The current limits on 401k's is something less than $20-30k per year depending on details. Thirty years of that is $600-900k, with interest is no more than $3-5m. Any 401k with more than that is very strange. It is unlikely that the drafters of the laws that created these things expected these accounts to get much bigger than this.
A new law or rule that caps the tax benefits of roth's/ira's/401k's at a few million dollars is completely within the spirit of the original intent of the law.
And if you are reading this and have been more fortunate than most, then congratulations. Plan to re-enter the income tax system, with only a few of your millions sheltered from capital gains or income tax.
Because nobody, and by that I mean nobody other than you, cares.
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One cannot avoid the troubling issue of slippery slope, since once a principle is bartered to accommodate so apparent good purpose, our own legislative history has shown us the the slope never points any direction but downwade to greater and greater use and regulation. Once 2 million is the cap, why not 1, and then one half, not to mention the erosive effects of the looming inflation? 2 million Obama dollars in 2018 might not be as much as you hope.
"Free healthcare for life if you make a career of it son", then Tricare, then tricare deductables, then the medicare linkage at 65, and now, the SS Medicare deduction like every other citizen. Government promises corrode over time, and never, never, to your benefit. SO on principle, I see this as another wrong in the making.
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touching retirement funds they encouraged you to retain, at ANY level, is a warning siren. Means justifying SSI is not. This is the first shot in confiscation/taxation of 401K holdings. Kick back - twice as hard
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Frank and NoMor,
You both make good arguments, with which I agree. But never forget that the Congress created these programs and the Congress can change them. I think it was Mark Twain who opined that, "No man's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session."
So, to protect a tax exemption for capital gains on retirement accounts in the millions of dollars, someone has to make a political argument that makes sense to the MAJORITY of dumbass voters in this country.
And I ain't seen it yet. Get busy or Obama will eat your lunch.
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Obama is too cowardly to do it. It would take Donk control. Look for a pandemic among elderly to erase SSI debts, along with legis pushes to swap $ in 401K for bonds. ( a slower, if not as certain death)
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[NEWYORK.CBSLOCAL] It was the ultimate putdown of state politicians caught in the corruption spotlight. Mayor Michael Nanny Bloomberg said they're not qualified to get real jobs.
The circus has returned to Albany.
The man known in some parts as "El Bloombito" took out his rapier to cut state politicians down to size with a jab only a self-made billionaire could fire off, CBS 2′s Marcia Kramer reported Friday.
"The average politician who has to make policy on things that influence our lives, our kids' lives, our future, would they ever get a job in the private sector making policy on big things? No, not a chance," Bloomberg said.
After a week of almost non-stop corruption revelations, including charges that Bronx Assemblyman Eric Stevenson took bribes to write a bill to help his friends, Bloomberg also included Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo in his revulsion of all things Albany, implying that one of the things that aids corruption is the practice of the governor sending politicians something called a "message of necessity" so a bill can pass quickly, without anyone having a the chance to study it.
"Why can't you give it time? Well, the answer is they don't want anybody to see it. That's the only explanation," Bloomberg said.
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File under broken clock, twice a day.
Loathesome as Bloomberg might be, he is dead on with his comments about the clerisy being largely unqualified and unfit to prosper in the private sector. It's why they are members of the clerisy.
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BTW, love the pie-throwing pic. Please use that more in the future.
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Two limousine socialists with authoritarian streaks having a cat fight. Pass the popcorn.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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