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Some governments like my city actually do live by competitive bidding which keeps our expenses down. Others not so much. The obama regime likes no bid contracts which is how we get dysfunctional websites at great expense. Another part of the problem is if a government agency doesn't spend all its budget they rush to spend it in the last month so their budget doesn't get cut whether they need anything or not. I get calls every September from government agencies wanting to buy things for that reason alone, and I COULD virtually name my price.
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There is a way to stop that practice and it is called zero based budgetting. What it means is every budget starts from scratch each year, each item is examined and agreed on. There is none of this we spent this amount last year and we will need 110% next year. The next step is the sunset clause in all contracts and projects, if not completed there are significant penalties and failure to meet specific goals means you loose the contract.
What should have been done with the ACA for example is that the insurers were set goals for participation, a market share they had to achieve and a price ceiling they had to stay under. I know it's not free market, but to borrow a quote from the movies "nothing is free in..........." |
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More vaping outrage. Seems congressional Democrats have nothing more pressing than this...
Senate Democrats were not amused to see Julia Louis-Dreyfus puffing away on an electronic cigarette during the Golden Globe Awards.
The lawmakers said the Louis-Dreyfus, who plays a fictional vice president on HBO’s “Veep,” helped glamorize smoking on the broadcast, and are pressing NBC Universal to ensure that the “e-cigarettes” are not featured again. “The Golden Globes celebrates entertainers who are an influence on young fans,” the Democrats wrote. “We ask the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and NBC Universal to take actions to ensure that future broadcasts of the Golden Globes do not intentionally feature images of e-cigarettes. Such action would help to avoid the glamorization of smoking and protect the health of young fans.” The letter was signed by Sens. Durbin (Ill.), Richard Blumenthal (Conn.), Sherrod Brown (Ohio) and Edward Markey (Mass.), and sent to NBC Universal CEO Stephen Burke and Hollywood Foreign Press Association president Theo Kingma.
"OMG, he's hot! Let's hope he's as easy to get as this birth control. My health insurance covers the pill, which means all I have to worry about is getting him between the covers," read the words in the risqué advertisement.
How about fixing that disaster called Obamacare or balancing a budget or something? |
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China has listed the benefits of its smog.
In America, we're used to our government, our industry and our media putting a spin on events to make the world seem a brighter, better place than it really is. But some of China's media is showing some impressive spin talent of its own, with a rationalization for pollution that is, quite literally, breathtaking.
Much of China has been suffering through choking smog in recent weeks, which has hampered daily activities and forced the closure of schools. In response, state broadcaster CCTV published a list of reasons documenting the benefits of smog. Yes, benefits. A Time magazine translator indicated the following CCTV rationalizations for smog: 1. It unifies the Chinese people. That's some interesting rationalization. Following that line of thinking, hurricanes also unify people by forcing them to leave their isolated homes and gather in collectives. Tornadoes give people a sense of the power of nature. Wildfires place everyone on an equal footing by burning everyone's possessions to the ground. See? The problem isn't nature, the problem is you.2. It makes China more equal. 3. It raises citizen awareness of the cost of China’s economic development. 4. It makes people funnier. 5. It makes people more knowledgeable (of things like meteorology and the English word haze). Naturally, the UN climate chief holds communism as the best cure for climate change, with China as the shining example.
United Nations climate chief Christiana Figueres said that democracy is a poor political system for fighting global warming. Communist China, she says, is the best model.
China may be the world’s top emitter of carbon dioxide and struggling with major pollution problems of their own, but the country is “doing it right” when it comes to fighting global warming says Figueres. “They actually want to breathe air that they don’t have to look at,” she said. “They’re not doing this because they want to save the planet. They’re doing it because it’s in their national interest.” You can't make this stuff up. |
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That is impressive spin to be sure. Many american cities have their own similar smog problems as well... they just don't spin like China does.
BTW do you know why the person in the picture is covering their mouth?
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There are no cities in America that have that kind of smog problem any more.
The same reason everyone else is.
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Texas and West Virginia have had disasters as a direct result of not enforcing the rules. Ohio is closing gates to stop the chemical leak from migrating to them. These are two examples of NOT inspecting facilities. Go ahead, keep shrinking the government and doing away with people and resources to protect us.
Pay me now, or pay me later comes to mind and its always more expensive later. |
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Those pics mean nothing, tell us how many smog alerts LA has had in the last 10 years. I was there a year ago and you can see a haze but it isn't what's going on in China by a long shot.
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