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Making sure the elderly get their checks on August 3rd.

Posted by Tired and Grumpy on Tuesday, July 12, 2011 5:08:24 PM
Recently, the President said the following about Social Security recipients in regards to the upcoming debt limit deadline, "I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3rd if we haven't resolved this issue. Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it,"

Figuring the President must be running a little low on ideas if this was the best he could come up with, I sent him the following letter:

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Mr President,
Recently you stated that you could not promise that Social Security recipients would get their checks on August 3rd if a deal was not made.  In my opinion, there are a number of federal costs to prioritize below the fixed income of the elderly.  On that note, I suggest the following items be frozen on August 3rd if a deal is not made, no exceptions:  

- all non-emergency foreign aid.
- all corporate subsidies
- all farm subsidies
- all interest payments for bonds owned by the fed.
- all federal governement hiring.
- all federal government pay raises or bonuses.
- all non-emergency government travel.
- all non-emergency POs.  
- all bailouts.  

Emergency is defined as someone is starving or otherwise in immediate threat of dying now.  A exception request would need to include the names of the people whose lives are being saved by this exception.  

In anticipation of this, I would recommend some IT funds be redirected and spent (quickly) on video conferencing capabilities.  

While this will not solve our financial problems, it will certainly make it so that the elderly will still be getting their checks on August 3rd.


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Caylee's law

Posted by Tired and Grumpy on Friday, July 08, 2011 5:13:47 PM
TX state senator promises new Caylee's Law

Sadly, I doubt that anyone who has just murdered their child is going to balk at committing a felony (up from a misdemeanor in TX) by not reporting their crime.

Whenever there is some horrific event like this, politicians like to propose laws to make themselves and us feel better.  In reality, they do little.  Gun control laws are an ideal example of this phenomenom.

Inevitably we will find that someone gets caught unwittingly in some poorly written clause / corner case of the law, is imprisoned, and spends more time in jail than Casey did (not difficult).  At which point we will hear about this again on the news.  

I would write a law against unnecessary, reactive laws but I am merely reacting to my frustration with this whole mess.

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