President Obama has nominated Senator Judd Gregg, R-NH, as his Secretary of Commerce. The U.S. Department of Commerce mission is to foster, promote, and develop foreign and domestic business and industry. Senator Gregg will become the third Republican in the Cabinet.
Democrats are appalled, calling the nominee “too pro-business.”
What? Is he nuts?
Miami-Dade Superintendent of Schools Alberto Carvalho plans to sue the state of Florida to recoup approximately $25 million in “lost revenue” because declining property values have hammered the (new) state funding formula.
Mr. Carvalho also plans to hire outside counsel for the litigation. At $4-500 per hour for Florida attorneys, that makes this a $100,000 lawsuit. Probably more if he hires a white shoe firm.
Sounds fine to me. Let’s replace a couple of good teachers with a lawyer.
And another thing. Everybody wants an increasing slice of this shrinking pie. Doesn’t anybody else notice how ridiculous it is for one agency of government to sue another agency of government? If the school district wins, the Agency of Transportation will be duty bound to sue not the State but the Miami-Dade School District. After all, if the state gives the school district the “lost revenue” that money will arguably come from the highway trust fund.
I can’t believe that Alan Shore won’t be around to litigate that one.
Lordy Lordy. Do the math, people.
Oh.
Wait.
It isn’t math. It’s simple arithmetic.
Under the subject line, A Bail Out Plan That Works, I’ve been subjected to about 14 repeats today alone of the following bright idea:
I’m against the $85,000,000,000 bailout of AIG.
Instead, I’m in favor of giving $85,000,000,000 to America in “We Deserve It Dividend.”
To make the math simple, let’s assume there are 200,000,000 bonafide U.S. Citizens 18+.
So divide 200 million adults 18+ into $85 billion that equals $425,000.00.
My plan is to give $425,000 to every person 18+ as a “We Deserve It Dividend” …
It goes on from there.
I’m all for giving $700,000,000,000 to individual Americans in “We Deserve It” dividends (as long as it’s your money) but do the math, people.
| 85 billion dollare: | $85,ØØØ,ØØØ,ØØØ |
| divided by 200 million peeps | 2ØØ,ØØØ,ØØØ |
| = | $425 per person |
I love politics. It is so enriching.
Congress wants to make sure nobody on Wall Street gets rewarded for this mess. Do you suppose we could take away Congress’ parachutes and severance?
Lordy Lordy.