Layoffs should start at the top: in Washington
With all of the talk about our weak economy and neither party having a good plan to balance the budget, how about some job cuts? Layoffs can be good if you cut the right people. Let’s start with the politicians.
• The spending stops for pork barrel projects.
• They can apply for the same unemployment benefits that we, the regular people, receive.
• We can stop their health benefits (a big savings) as well as their vacations and “business” trips.
This plan could work at all levels of government. We, the people, should demand that layoffs start now!
Businesses are laying off to survive. Why not politicians?
Let’s lay off hundreds of them now, and call them back in two years — if and when the economy turns around.
Glenn Andrews
Greensboro
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Amen. Let's be sure to add school administrators to that layoff list, too. Just keep the people who actually teach children, clean the bathrooms, and answer the phones. We can do without the people who sit around all day thinking about crazy new theories to try on poor, captive children.
Posted on August 5, 2008 8:02 AM
If you were running for president, Glenn, I would strongly think about voting for you.
Posted on August 5, 2008 9:13 AM
Amen Glenn. If they followed all your suggestions, enough tax money could be saved to cover maybe a week's worth of pissed-away money in Iraq.
Posted on August 5, 2008 11:39 AM
Glenn,
You appear to have as much "respect" for the Constitution as our current President.
Posted on August 5, 2008 5:48 PM