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POPSOink-oink piggies! Get your snouts in the tax trough. Shameful. Business as usual. And it's ALL about business - government getting into our business to fund their business interests. I'm glad that our Texas senators called bullshit on this pork-laden, unconstitutional monstrosity. Yeah. I know, I know, I KNOW! Republicans do it, too. The problem is with the entire Congress. They are out for their own best interest - not ours. Vote them all out!
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POPSOshkosh Award Raises Questions
Agree w/J. Gansler that job creation shouldn't be a criteria for Gov contracts--would result in labor intensive, inefficient bids (oink, oink!). BUT the DOD can't continue to ignore the drastic market shift over 20 years that has virtually destroyed the ability to conduct truly competitive bids for large contracts. Since Bill Perry's "Last Supper," we find only 1 company can build large acft, 2 or 3 can build satellites, 3 can build heavy duty trucks, etc. Budget realities mean that if a firm loses a big contract like this, the next opportunity may not come along for 5, 10, even 20 years. Few firms can afford to stay in the market on the hope that they'll win "next time." Unfortunately, the govies just don't get it, as evidenced in these 2 articles: http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1289/1 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aIrSOQpbzRfc I haven't seen serious discussion of structural causes, and acquisition strategies to combat them anywhere.
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POPSOink Report - 3 November 2009 I am so glad that children who won't be born for decades yet will be paying the interest on the money spent to keep the Merry-Go-Round Museum open. That must save or create a gajillion jobs.
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POPS Denver Protest With Pig Roast Why bother? It’s for posterity’s sake. For the historical record. And, hopefully, it will spur others to move from the phones and computers to the streets. Community organizing helped propel Barack Obama to the White House. It could work for fiscal conservatism, too.
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POPSSome Facts on "Stimulus" The bill provides enough spending – $825 billion – to give every man, woman, and child in America $2,700. $825 billion is enough to give every person in Ohio $72,000. Although the House Democrats’ proposal has been billed as a transportation and infrastructure investment package, in actuality only $30 billion of the bill – or three percent – is for road and highway spending. etcetera, etcetera
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POPSSenate Passes Pork-Stuffed Bailout Bill Oink, Oink! Your Senate at work, stuffing ear-marks into the "must pass" financial bailout bill. They all lined up. This by itself should make it very tempting to reject by republicans. Yet the hypocrite McCain, as well as Obama, supports it, (and Bush would sign it), even though it will NOT FIX THE PROBLEM, BUT EXACERBATE IT (according to economists who know), and put all Americans and the federal government on the hook for the about a TRillion Dollars in new debt, transferring bad debt from Wall Street to Main Street. Even more sickening about all this is that both McCain and Obama support this balderdash. It favors Obama as he wants more government spending and government control. This however flies in the face of what McCain has been saying that he will veto earmarks and pork barrel spending. THE HOUSE SHOULD REJECT THIS. CALL THEM!
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POPSYou Might Be A Redneck If... You paint your car with house paint. Your dog goes "oink!" You think the Nutcracker is something you did off the high dive. Your mailbox is made out of old auto parts. You know how to milk a goat. You have a black eye and a hickey at the same time. Your kids have a three-day old Kool-Aid mustache. Your dog passes gas and you claim it. Your TV gets 512 channels, but you go outside to use the bathroom. You offer to give somebody the shirt off your back and they don't want it. You've ever stood outside a bathroom and heckled someone inside. You think toilet water is exactly that. Your chili's secret ingredient comes from the bait shop. Turning on your lights involves pulling a string. You wore curlers to your wedding so you would look nice at the reception. You have a refrigerator just for beer. Your lawn furniture used to be your living room furniture. You come back from the dump with more than you took. The trunk of your car is tied
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POPSPirate Bay Finally Prosecuted The Pirate Bay--the world's biggest online clearinghouse for music and video piracy by some measures--has flaunted copyright holders for years, even posting cease and desist letters on their site along with snarky replies. Now it looks like Sweden, where the site is hosted, may be cracking down. Pirates everywhere will be holding their breath.
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