The Good Old Days Of Budgeting Are Dead And Gone

Posted by $ allosaur 6 years, 7 months ago to Government
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Back in the good ole' days before Big Brother (our "representative" career politicians aka The Swamp) went and broke what's supposed to be We The People's government, here is how the legislative process worked, according to the linked article~

Freakin' Step 1
Congress approved a budget, a blueprint of how
money would be spent during the year.

Freakin' Step 2
Congress authorized spending on existing programs whose authorization had run out.

Freakin' Step 3
Congress approved 11 or 12 appropriation bills at one time, with appropriators carefully considering a reasonable level of spending for each category, members voting up and down on each one, approving those they agree with, opposing those they thought spent too much or too little.

Yep, those were the good ole' days. Today?
Budget? What's a budget? We don't need no stinkin' budget!
Hey, guys, for this here Omnibus Bill, let's float a loan to get DACA off the ground. What? You Jackass Partiers don't want no stinkin' DACA either? Why?
Ah, leverage to keep the wall from being built while you can keep calling Trump a racist. Okay.
Oh, guess y'all don't know there's a dinky so-called "down payment" on the wall in the bill.
Oh, you haven't read the bill. That's okay too.
Few if any of us have read all 2,000 pages with that threat deadline of a government shutdown looming over our swampy career politician heads..
Yeah, yeah, yeah! Let's hurry, hurry, hurry! Let's hurry up and pass this big bill to see what's in it .
Wheee! Hell's bells shotgun shells! Let's all hitch a ride on this Brave New World Banana Republic Express!
Yeehaw! Ha! Ha! Ha!
I don't give a damn! My earmarks are in a jam!
Why think debit when we've got credit?
How can we crash and burn, baby? How can we crash and burn? We're the elite with nuthin' left to learn!
Wheeeeeeeeee!
Cray havoc and let loose the national debt!
Thar she blows!~http://www.usdebtclock.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3edi2...


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  • Posted by Dobrien 6 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    My pal John Swanson's grandpa was 1st generation Swede he would always say Over zee boats GE divin . When casting his lure .This is classic joke told when fishing.....Ole and Sven were fishing when Sven pulled out a cigar but didn't have a lighter so he asked Ole for a light. "Ya, shure, I tink I haff a lighter", he replied. He reached into his tackle box and pulled out a 12-inch BIC lighter. "Yiminy Cricket!" exclaimed Sven, "Vhere did yew get dat monster?" "Vell", replied Ole, "I got it from my Genie". "You haff a genie?" Sven asked. "Ya, shure, he's right here in my tackle box", said Ole. "Could I see him?" Ole opens his tackle box and out pops the genie.

    The friend says, "Hey Dere! I'm a good friend of your master.Vill you grant me vun vish?" "Yes I will", the genie said. So Sven asks him for a million bucks and the genie hops back into the tackle box and leaves Sven standing there waiting for his million bucks. Suddenly the sky begins to darken and the sound of million ducks flying overhead is heard. Sven yells to Ole, "I asked for a million bucks - not ducks!" Ole answers, "Ya, I forgot to tell yew, da genie is hard of hearing. Do you really tink I asked him for a 12-inch BIC?
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  • Posted by Herb7734 6 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I was hoping for a swami in the woodpile. Ah well, the ordinary wine always tastes better than the rare to me. Guess I'm just a peasant after all.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 6 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I rather be an orca. The king predator of the sea with no natural enemies. Cute is OK but feared is better.
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  • Posted by $ 6 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    LOL! Good one. Never heard of Ole and Lena jokes.
    My French-Irish mom did all the cooking in Alabama. I can't even recall Dad grilling a steak, though he did teach me how to clean fish at that lake you know about.
    Just before I clicked on Reply, me dino thought to see what I've been missing for being dragged south. Well, I WAS dragged south from Massachusetts, so I may have missed out anyways.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_and...
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  • Posted by Dobrien 6 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    We are Surrounded by Swedes in Minnesota .
    The home of Ole and Lena jokes.Example
    Ole was talking with his brother Sven, who lived next door, when Sven said, "Ya know Ole, you and Lena should really get some new curtains."
    "Vhy's dat?" Ole asked.
    "Vel last night I saw you and Lena, vel you know..."
    Ole thought for awhile, then said, "Ha-ha Sven, da jokes on you! I vasn't even home last night!"
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  • Posted by Dobrien 6 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    DNA can reveal your religion? Maybe the other 3% is Zoroastrian. Although I have read that many
    many folks are descendants of Attila.
    I answer my own Queery Is Judaism more than a religion? Is there a jewish Gene?

    Ethnic groups who marry among themselves for generations are genetically "linked". It is scientifically undisputed that there are genetic patterns that occur frequently in Jews. Jews have developed over the centuries a certain degree of genetic homogeneity that becomes visible in a DNA-test.

    The Jewish People, however, is not entirely genetically seperable. So no test can give you an unambiguous proof. Nevertheless a genealogical DNA test can confirm a Jewish origin.

    Even if you don't belong to one of the typical Jewish haplogroups, you could still have Jewish roots. By comparing your DNA-Profile with all other profiles in our databank (over 700.000), you will find persons whose profiles are genetically similar to yours ("genetic cousins"). If many of your genetic cousins are Jews, then there is a high probability that you have Jewish roots, too.
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  • Posted by BCRinFremont 6 years, 7 months ago
    I see criticism about the current admin firing staff at a historic rate. How else do you get rid of the swamp creature infestation?
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  • Posted by BCRinFremont 6 years, 7 months ago
    To paraphrase Austin Powers’ father, “If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s people who can not tolerate another person’s culture...and the Dutch.”
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  • Posted by $ 6 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Laughing. Me dino ain't got a thing against Jews or Scots either. The rest of me is half Swedish and a mutt quarter with roots to Acadians kicked out of Canada by the Brits.
    The cool Acadians went to Louisiana to become Cajuns.
    My mutt quarter settled in New England on my mother's side, she and my American born full-blooded Swede dad moving to Alabama when I was four.
    My mom's dad did look like a Frenchman roughly similar to DeGaulle and her mom had a bit of an Irish accent.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 6 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I can whine louder about my ancestry than you can about yours. When my DNA test came back, it said 97% European Jew. Not only disappointing , but Boring.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 6 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    A friend recently received a patent for his medical device invention. I think it's a device that will be marketed to physicians but still probably regulated strictly.
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  • Posted by term2 6 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    totally agree. also a producer strike. I got out of making medical equipment because I tired of the regulations of the FDA. As regulations get more and more onerous, more producers will quit making the products that are under those regulations. Today I make unregulated off road lighting using LEDS. The day that becomes regulated I will probably exit this business
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  • Posted by freedomforall 6 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Unless someone can see the advantage of returning to a free market and expanding into space exploration and colonization instead of business as usual (killing masses of people.)
    I know it is a miniscule, likely forlorn, hope.
    I still think a consumer strike is our best chance to force a return to free markets and liberty.
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