Showing posts with label government. Show all posts
Showing posts with label government. Show all posts

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Republican Party in Polk County, Wisconsin, pulled the tape of Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) fretting about making ends meet on his $174,000 a year salary from its own website.

You just have to see this..




"First the Republican Party in Polk County, Wisconsin, pulled the tape of Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) fretting about making ends meet on his $174,000 a year salary from its own website. Now they want it gone from the whole Internet."  ~tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com

His quote:
 "I can guarantee you, or most of you, I guarantee that I have more debt than all of you. With 6 kids, I still pay off my student loans. I still pay my mortgage. I drive a used minivan. If you think I'm living high on the hog, I've got one paycheck. So I struggle to meet my bills right now. Would it be easier for me if I get more paychecks? Maybe, but at this point I'm not living high on the hog." ~Rep. Sean Duffy

 Whaaat? Are you kidding me?? This man lives where the Median household income is $41,183. That means his salary is 4.2 times more than the median person. Not the average, the middle.

Here is some shet to chew on, here are some percentages of the people he compares himself too.
Percentage of people     Their income range       Times their income goes into his.
14.1%                             >$10,000 ~ $14,999                  17.4 ~ 11.6
14.1%                             $25,000 ~ $34,999                    6.9 ~ 4.9
19.2%                             $35,000 ~ $49,999                    4.9 ~ 3.4

That is 47.4% of the people he compares himself too. Also he is in the 1.6% highest paid range. Which is the last 2 ranges on the chart. I don't know about you, but his hog seems pretty damn high. Thanks for thinking of the little people there congressman.

Stats taken from:
http://censtats.census.gov/data/WI/05055095.pdf
Story from:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/gopers-demand-sean-duffy-salary-tape-be-pulled-from-the-internet.php

Friday, June 4, 2010

Governmental Ruling Styles Explained

Feudalism
You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.
Pure Socialism
You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you all the milk you need.
Bureaucratic Socialism
Your cows are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and eggs the regulations say you should need.
Fascism
You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk.
Pure Communism
You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.
Real World Communism
You share two cows with your neighbors. You and your neighbors bicker about who has the most "ability" and who has the most "need". Meanwhile, no one works, no one gets any milk, and the cows drop dead of starvation.
Russian Communism
You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it on the black market.
Perestroika
You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the Mafia takes all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it on the "free" market.
Cambodian Communism
You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you.
Militarianism
You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.
Totalitarianism
You have two cows. The government takes them and denies they ever existed. Milk is banned.
Pure Democracy
You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.
Representative Democracy
You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.
British Democracy
You have two cows. You feed them sheeps' brains and they go mad. The government doesn't do anything.
Bureaucracy
You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.
Pure Anarchy
You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to take the cows and kill you.
Pure Capitalism
You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
Capitalism
You don't have any cows. The bank will not lend you money to buy cows, because you don't have any cows to put up as collateral.
Enviromentalism
You have two cows. The government bans you from milking or killing them.
Political Correctness
You are associated with (the concept of "ownership" is a symbol of the > phallo centric, war mongering, intolerant past) two differently - aged (but no less valuable to society) bovines of non-specified gender.
Surrealism
You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.
Counter Culture
Wow, dude, there's like... these two cows, man. You got to have some of this milk.
Hong Kong Capitalism
You have two cows. You sell three of them to your publicly-listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute an debt/equity swap with associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax deduction for keeping five cows. The milk rights of six cows are transferred via a Panamanian intermediary to a Cayman Isands company secretly owned by the majority shareholder, who sells the rights to all seven cows' milk back to the listed company. The annual report says that the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. Meanwhile, you kill the two cows because the Feng Shui is bad.
Singaporean Democracy
You have two cows. The government fines you for keeping two unlicensed farm animals in an apartment.
Feminism
You have two cows. They get married and adopt a veal calf.
Libertarianism
You have two cows. One has actually read the constitution, believes in it, and has some really good ideas about government. The cow runs for office, and while most people agree that the cow is the best candidate, nobody except the other cow votes for her because they think it would be "throwing their vote away."
Nazism
The government shoots you, takes the cows and feeds one to the army and the other to the police.
Conservatism
Milk the cows, enbalm the cows, freeze the milk, nuke the cows to keep from spreading the disease. Phase out over five years the amount of milk you're required to give to the government.
Anarchism
Keep the cows. Steal a few more cows.
Liberalism
Give the milk back to the cows. Let them escape. Put the cows on the Voter Registration list.
Libertarianism
Milk the cows and keep it for yourself; hope the populace can find milk elsewhere.
Militiaism
Start shooting if they come for your cows