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We can’t solve problems using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

“Death and taxes may be inevitable, but being taxed to death is not inevitable.” — Howard Jarvis

From The Boston Globe 2005: The federal government’s chief investigator yesterday blasted the Pentagon for its ”atrocious financial management,” saying the Defense Department was not able to give federal oversight officials a full accounting of the $1 billion being spent each week on the war in Iraq.

This is all available on empirecenter.org
For the second consecutive year, more than 10 percent of the MTA’s workforce – 8,074 individuals – took home $100,000 or more in total pay, including overtime and other extra pay. The MTA’s six-figure club included:
• Six employees who earned more than $250,000;
• 44 employees who earned between $200,000 and $250,000;
• 511 employees who earned between $150,000 and $200,000; and
• 7,513 individuals who earned between $100,000 and $150,000.

Eleven of the 561 employees who earned more than $150,000 in 2009 were Long Island Railroad car repairmen who earned an average of $167,342 – which was $102,477 over their annual base pay rate of $64,865. Other popular titles in the $150,000-and-over category included:
• 65 Long Island Railroad and Metro-North Railroad conductors who averaged $86,837 over their base salaries which averaged $75,970;*
• 53 Bridge & Tunnel Sergeants and Lieutenants who averaged $94,962 over the average base pay of $82,594;
• 34 Long Island and Metro-North Railroad engineers who averaged $89,109 over their $77,953;*
• 28 MTA police officers; and
• 23 Long Island Railroad gang foremen averaging $81,718 over their base pay rate $82,249.

The people running the CIA all seem to be about 19 years old on this absurd show. The lead intelligence officer is literally blind! Need I say more?

The MTA Just announced its hiring of cost cutter Diana Jones Ritter for 217,000 dollars a year. Nonetheless, she mistakenly announced that she had accepted a position at the “New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority.” Perhaps her first order of business can be to find out the correct name of her employer! Good luck, dummy!

Fifteen years ago my family and I were having dinner at a restaurant on the Upper East Side in NYC. I saw Steinbrenner sitting with a group of people and suggested to my son (then 5 years old) that he introduce himself to “The Boss.” Steinbrenner could not have been nicer. He welcomed my son to the table and also invited my daughter to come over and wrote them both notes that the Yankees loved them. They were not old enough at the time to fully appreciate what happened, but they still have the notes today.

Here’s a scenario: Someone hideously obese goes to the doctor for treatment. The doctor says: “You’re two hundred pounds overweight, we need to do something!”

Does the doctor — 1 — suggest a regimen of diet & exercise or — 2 — prescribe a motorized scooter — paid for by insurance – to ferry Big Fatty around and disturb the lives of normal people!?

Sadly — and inexplicably – it’s answer number two!!!

No, it’s not the name of a new summer movie. It’s further evidence of BP’s incompetence and another argument against the Republicans call for reduced government control.