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Old 06-26-2012, 04:14 PM
 
Location: Midwest
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Fire 75% of federal employees
Fire 50% of state employees
Change unemployment insurance to 8 weeks
Repeal student loan program
Pass Balanced Budget Amendment
You need to take a break from listening to Limbaugh. What you have here is a prescription for enslaving the middle and lower class to the wealthy aristocrats.
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Old 06-26-2012, 04:14 PM
 
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Were did you get the 50-75% from? How would you asses if these cuts are too deep?
I didn't come up with those numbers.... the OP did

I agreed with the ideas, not neccesarily with the numbers and %
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Old 06-26-2012, 04:15 PM
 
Location: Texas
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Fire 75% of federal employees
Fire 50% of state employees
Which of those employees do you think we can do without? State Police? Firefighters? Teachers? The folks who go around and make sure that gas pump is measuring correctly? The ones who respond to hazardous spills? How about the ones inspect the food you eat, or who protect your border or spy on our enemies? How about soldiers, state and federal? Do without them? Or, the folks who maintain your highways and railroads, who direct air traffic? The ones who make sure government contracts are being honestly filled?

The list goes on and on. Tell me...which ones do YOU want to get rid of?


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Change unemployment insurance to 8 weeks
Then what?

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Repeal student loan program
How will they pay for college? Or, will we be better off with less college graduates?

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Pass Balanced Budget Amendment
No problem with this one.
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Old 06-26-2012, 04:17 PM
 
Location: USA
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Fire 75% of federal employees
Fire 50% of state employees
Change unemployment insurance to 8 weeks
Repeal student loan program
Pass Balanced Budget Amendment
To create jobs you'd actually have to CREATE more jobs than you destroy.
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Old 06-26-2012, 04:35 PM
 
Location: Los Awesome, CA
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I didn't come up with those numbers.... the OP did

I agreed with the ideas, not neccesarily with the numbers and %
Ok that makes more sense... I don't believe anyone on this board understands enough about services to government man power to put numbers to it. I believe the suggestions are just sensationalist talk from an ideologue...
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Old 06-26-2012, 06:15 PM
 
Location: Georgia, on the Florida line, right above Tallahassee
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Fire 75% of federal employees
Fire 50% of state employees
Change unemployment insurance to 8 weeks
Repeal student loan program
Pass Balanced Budget Amendment
I saw do all of that twice as much and twice as fast and we'd have twice the jobs.
I bet if we quintuple it, we'd have 4 times as many jobs. IF we just fired everybody...and stopped giving money to anybody .... .think about how many jobs we would have. You could'n't move without steppijng on a job. You'd probably be kiled later by a falling job. You would see jobs roaming the streets looking for an employee to bond with.


What a bonding job might look like.
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Old 06-26-2012, 06:20 PM
 
Location: Littleton, CO
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Fire 75% of federal employees
Fire 50% of state employees
Change unemployment insurance to 8 weeks
Repeal student loan program
Pass Balanced Budget Amendment
Where does that create a single job? Exactly?
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Old 06-26-2012, 06:23 PM
 
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Fire 75% of federal employees
Fire 50% of state employees
Change unemployment insurance to 8 weeks
Repeal student loan program
Pass Balanced Budget Amendment
And this creates jobs how? It's laughably naive to think these actions would somehow stimulate the economy. But points for parroting bullet items.
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Old 06-26-2012, 06:23 PM
 
Location: Palo Alto
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I would lay off 30% of Federal Employees, 30% of state employees.

Otherwise, I don't think it's too radical what you're proposing.
Just pass a balanced budget and the problem goes away.
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Old 06-26-2012, 06:30 PM
 
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Why fire Americans?

Fire the 30 million illegals, at least half of them are taking jobs that Americans could have. If you fired only 10 million of the illegals that are here working, you'd have a pretty substantial number of jobs opened to Americans. Remember that fewer than 1 million total people work in agriculture and only about a fourth of agricultural workers are here illegally. A whole lot of illegals are working in jobs that don't involve agriculture at all.
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