One more thing to do--it may take a bit longer--is to eliminate the government employees' unions. That began under JFK, through an executive order. FDR, who backed the industrial unions, was totally opposed to unions for government employees. Corporate CEOs dealing with unions have to face the stockholders for bad decisions; senior bureaucrats don't. The old industrial unions have been in decline for years; now the biggest part of their membership is the government employees' unions.
To be clear: I grew up in a UAW household, and I know the history; Henry Ford and the brass at GM and Chrysler deserved the unions. But a century later, the union brass are ingrown and out of touch with their own members (most of the union leadership hasn't worked at the base level for twenty or thirty years, if they ever did--many are lawyers). The last few elections show the gap--the union brass favored Harris, but the rank-and-file members voted for Trump.
Income tax the Unions. They are a Political organization. They should pay taxes on their income, and report expenses to the IRS under penalty of TAX FRAUD. Get all the Union officers to sign - every year - all their expenses are as stated - under penalty of civil fines and Criminal penalties. Teachers Unions, UAW, SEIU - ALL of THEM. Political donations in Cash and/or In-Kind need t/b reported and properly recorded.
Gov't unions cannot strike, bargain for wages nor force anyone to join. They can only bargain on working conditions and be counterproductive as Douglas Baringer suggests above.
Because of bargained performance standards it is very difficult to fire anyone for poor performance.
Don't recall the details, but believe the Air Traffic Controllers Union went on strike (illegally) while Reagan was President, and he fired the whole lot of them. It was very dramatic at the time.
In the decades since, that same union apparently grew back and imposed DEI hiring standards--and we all know how "successful" that has been.
There are constitutional scholars who believe there are statutes that preclude government employees from unionizing but as far as I can tell no one has yet pushed this issue all the way to the SCOTUS. Might be time now. This would also probably apply to city, county and state unions as well.
If government unions came about through an Executive Order, could they be abolished or at least be emasculated by another such order? WAIT! BETTER YET! Could they be given free Gender-Affirming-Care?
My son and his wife were waiting for a package, sitting on the front porch. They watched the mail carrier drive by without stopping and saw the online status flip to undeliverable. They called the post office and complained. Driver got a warning and now their service is even worse.
"The prosecutors handling the January 6 cases are gone—marched out of their offices by security."
Good. That's the way to do it. When it comes time to arrest James Comey, Peter Stzrok, etc., do it the way they arrested Roger Stone, with OAN in tow to record it.
Please don't do it the way "they" did it; the arrests that is. Just arrest and clean house. Do it professionally. Do not stoop to "their" methods. And, yes, those are pronouns. LOL.
And then we can raid Joe's Delaware home at the crack of dawn and post video of Jill's underwear drawer and closet. I wouldn't be surprised at all if we also find boxes of Top Secret documents - perhaps the docs Sandy Berger shoved down his pants.
I’ve read that Acting Director Driscoll has refused to turn over the names of everyone (and I mean EVERYONE) involved in the J6 action. Of course, his name would be on the list, also. Not a good look for him.
I recommend that DJT via the White House press secretary give out an annual award for fake news reporting. It should be called the Walter Duranty Award in honor of the NYT Moscow chief correspondent in the 1930’s who hid Stalin’s police state and promoted Communism.
Have a special chair at the WH Briefing Room for the Reporter - like up front facing the crowd of propaganda-ists. With a Dunce Hat on Fibbers' Friday...
I’m taking it. I was going to retire anyway. 7 months free leave at full salary so I have more time to spend reading Don’s column vs chatting with y’all.
My frustration is that wanted to help clean up the government. That’s already been my job for 12 years at my agency. Nobody would listen. Now I have an executive who wants change and no one from his admin is listening to me either. Bye bye.
Greg, there may be some new and effective outside consultants spring up after DOGE completes its initial work. Maybe you should start talking to other like minded folks to explore that?
Then perhaps you are part of the problem too? You are taking advantage of taxpayers, aren’t you? If you intended to retire then do so. The severance doesn’t apply to you.
I would agree otherwise. I didn’t intend to retire this year. But he gave me an offer I couldn’t refuse. Sorry. Don’t hate. I sacrificed 28 years of life in military. And 12 more to this job. That’s 40 years of my life to serving our country only to be kicked in the teeth. 7 months is a small price for you to pay. If I stayed another year or two, my retirement annuity would be $500 or more per month.
The way it reads to me is you are resigning, not retiring. I don't see retirement benefits as part of this offer. Don't assume, check to be sure. (unless you are not eligible for them)
Remember Hoffer's maxim: Every good cause begins as a movement, becomes a business and degerates into a racket. We are, and have for some time now, been in the "racket" stage of government. For example, the "civil servce" began as a "good government" movement. Those who came under its protections eventually regarded their sinecures as a "business" (as in the business of making a living off the taxpayers) and then it became a racket, whereby those on the inside came to believe they were entitled to remain forever the beneficiaries of taxpayer largesse and viewed every threat to that cozy little arrangement as a personal threat. Or perhaps to put a less charitable spin on it, one might view all government as a necessary evil, as our Founders did. In that view, the equation is simple: more government, more evil; less government, less evil. The trick is to get the balance right. Things have been way out of balance for decades and Trump's moves are precisely what is necessary to restore proper balance. It is a titanic struggle, no doubt, and the enemies of freedom are working feverishly to stop that from happening. The outcome, as said The Duke of Wellington about Waterloo, will be a close run thing. Let us pray for Trump's success. And ours.
The buyout was a stroke of genius. How many federal employees, seeing the chainsaw now slicing through the federal "workforce", are doing a little math? Take the buyout and update the resume, possibly getting a new job quickly, or risk getting pink-slipped with no benefits. I can just see the meme of the guy sweating over which of two buttons to push.
Is that true? If so, that's a very valuable point for people to know about. Someone needs to find some print or video documentation of it, and get it widely published--post it on Twitter, etc.
BH, I took some time today (Feb. 6th) to hunt thru the Comments to find this posting you did, documenting Clinton's buyout of federal employees. You should be really happy to see that just a few minutes ago--documentation of Clinton's buyout was posted at the very top of Citizen Free Press's stack as the #3 item.
By now, it's probably down to item #10 or further down, because CFP sometimes posts alot of things very rapidlyl.
But still, your bringing up this point on Monday, I believe, had an impact. In the dynamic media environment today, we can't exactly trace cause and effect, but I would bet you had an impact. By posting that very valuable point about Clinton, we can't know who may have read it and then posted a comment on Twitter, which caused someone else to research and post documentation somewhere else, etc., or whether Kane or someone close to Kane saw your comment and you more directly led to its being highlighted AT THE TOP OFTHE STACK on Citizen Free Press.
Remember, CFP has 550 million page views per month!!!! It is the #1 top read media source on the Right, flirting with the Top Ten online news sources in the entire country.
Anyway, I just think you should pat yourself on the back for recalling this interesting and very relevant action that Clinton took, and bringing it to people's attention.
8 months of paid vacation? Could be a temptation to many. If just 3% took the offer the savings would be enormous! What the swamp really fears is that anyone will accept the offer and establish a beachhead for reducing the size of government.
If you as a government employee has your job eliminated they have to offer you a job elsewhere. It could be at a lower pay scale but "Save Pay" kicks in. You don't lose any money but your step increases are halved until you meet the current step your in. You also may have to move to another state.
The biggest pain at both agencies I worked for were the constant safety and general training requirements. It at times ate up a lot of actual work time. It came from top down and a lot of times it was not needed in current job duties. It just looked good to them.
Federal bureaucrats have never worked for an independent company that downsized. They don’t know (yet) that the first round of RIFs get the best offers. The next round will be for less, or none.
Too bad they have no marketable skills. Maybe there’s a barista job in their remote WFH spot.
“The new appointees in charge of OPM have moved the agency's chief management officer, Katie Malague, out of her office and to a new office on a different floor, the officials said.”
Why not sent an unmistakable signal and move her into a broom closet?
I dealt with OPM during my Gov't employment and they were very good at taking care of us.. A lot of really good lower level employees work there and I'm sure they are probably top heavy like all agencies. This lady would be a policy maker so she needed to be given new duties as she would have been seen as a barrier to implementing Trumps policies.
I’m expecting a suicide or two among these 51 scoundrels. It’s not the removal of security clearances, but the banning from federal buildings that will push them over the edge. No reason now to live! Their gods have failed them.
Actually there probably be no suicides in this group. Suicide is often an act of conscience. Despair over ones wrong doing. Extreme depression can also be a motivation. These people are as vindictive as skunks raising a stink wherever they go . Look to them to band together and plot the next political insurrection against the one they were determined to destroy. Evil never rests. It never slumbers. They are all unburdened by conscience and driven by hate.
They will find plenty of political refuge outside of the federal buildings.
I also noticed that 44 (or so) of the 51 are not just white, but MEN.
For those who have commented often that the problem with the country is WOMEN, and that the 19th Amendment should be repealed: realize that white men have been equally (or MORE) responsible for the destruction wrought by the Democratic Party.
There may be stylistic differences between the men and the women. Women may tend to be more vocal, emotional, and visible (and thereby easy targets to criticize); but the white men work more quietly behind the scenes as the managers, fund raisers, and implementers of the poison.
And there is a special level of insanity, in that all these white men have been supporting an ideology and movement that hates white men.
So can we drop this crap about repealing the 19th Amendment?
Wow!' And there is a special level of insanity, in that all these white men have been supporting an ideology and movement that hates white men'. Gal, real white men love women and share the idiocy of transgender. We just loathe the females that won't support their sisters. Don't hear much 'roar' anymore-only screech.
I was just remembering that it was exactly five years ago today that I was driving along listening to the end of another great three hours of Rush - suddenly he dropped the bomb about his cancer diagnosis. I had to pull over for a time and collect myself before driving on. I miss him every day when the clock strikes noon.
Thanks for keeping a compendium of all the excellent moves Donald J. Bulldozer is making, Don. It’s hard to keep up, but the smile on my face each day I awaken to all this winning cannot be erased! I’ve even started listening to music again, free of the stress of thinking each day could be our last as a free nation. The long overdue government housecleaning is finally taking place and they only have themselves to blame. You can only push a man so far before he pushes back.
Well, if they move to Canada they can do it (suicide) there; legally. It is what we need to have here by the way; especially for the terminally ill. But, that is another subject.
Are you insane? Sorry, but that is the most hideous and demonic policy ever! I suggest you do some research on how very, very far afield from the “terminally ill” that particular piece of devilry in Canada has already metastasized. It is beyond horrific!
The question from you is "are you insane" and the answer, Suzie, is "no". I am avidly aware of the Canadian program and how dastardly it can be. I have many Canadian friends and spent two weeks touring the Maritime Provinces last summer. There is an option for the terminally ill in Canada; we have no option here. I am concerned about that and that only. I was certainly not promoting simply adopting what they Canadians have done. Learning from what they have done is part of due diligence research. You have a good week, a safe one, and a sane one.
But the idea of “assisted suicide” to me is the slipperiest of all slopes, tantamount to legalizing murder, and right up there with abortion. How it has already morphed into a virtual “option” for nigh unto anyone in Canada for the most minimal of actual or imagined heath reasons is beyond terrifying.
There will always be heart-wrenching stories used to push such things emotionally but that is no justification in my book for legalizing murder by government.
Just an aside, but many, if not most, states in America have passed state legislation called "Medical Aid In Dying". These bills (most of which have the same template) require the adult to have received a primary and second-opinion terminal diagnosis, be made aware of the range of palliative supports, be determined to "have capacity" (clarity of mind) to make their own decision, have a psychological examination, and thoroughly document their choice. Then, a doctor can prescribe medication that the patient would self-administer, which would cause their death (usually fairly peacefully within 3 hours).
Although these laws are already on the books in many states, in America we have not been "promoting" them as aggressively as they are in Canada. And I believe Canada's laws are more lenient, allowing assisted suicide for a much broader range of not-really-terminal situations.
And as another aside, I would never wish for any of those 51 scoundrels to be sent to the land of our friends Chuck and LuAnn!
What a heartwarming column to start my Monday with a smile! None of these stories were unfamiliar, but seeing them all together with some names thrown in was icing on a Trump 47 celebration cake. The best part is that he told everyone that this was coming, and nobody seemed to believe him. I don’t know if I’ll survive Trump’s first 100 days in office, but I’m going to try my best!
One more thing to do--it may take a bit longer--is to eliminate the government employees' unions. That began under JFK, through an executive order. FDR, who backed the industrial unions, was totally opposed to unions for government employees. Corporate CEOs dealing with unions have to face the stockholders for bad decisions; senior bureaucrats don't. The old industrial unions have been in decline for years; now the biggest part of their membership is the government employees' unions.
To be clear: I grew up in a UAW household, and I know the history; Henry Ford and the brass at GM and Chrysler deserved the unions. But a century later, the union brass are ingrown and out of touch with their own members (most of the union leadership hasn't worked at the base level for twenty or thirty years, if they ever did--many are lawyers). The last few elections show the gap--the union brass favored Harris, but the rank-and-file members voted for Trump.
Income tax the Unions. They are a Political organization. They should pay taxes on their income, and report expenses to the IRS under penalty of TAX FRAUD. Get all the Union officers to sign - every year - all their expenses are as stated - under penalty of civil fines and Criminal penalties. Teachers Unions, UAW, SEIU - ALL of THEM. Political donations in Cash and/or In-Kind need t/b reported and properly recorded.
I don't like the idea that politicians negotiating with the government unions give the store away to get campaign contributions and votes.
Gov't unions cannot strike, bargain for wages nor force anyone to join. They can only bargain on working conditions and be counterproductive as Douglas Baringer suggests above.
Because of bargained performance standards it is very difficult to fire anyone for poor performance.
Don't recall the details, but believe the Air Traffic Controllers Union went on strike (illegally) while Reagan was President, and he fired the whole lot of them. It was very dramatic at the time.
In the decades since, that same union apparently grew back and imposed DEI hiring standards--and we all know how "successful" that has been.
That is the truth. Unions for government employees are counterptoductive at best.
Your last sentence is the KEY... amazing too when that was happening; and still the Dems did not "get it".
There are constitutional scholars who believe there are statutes that preclude government employees from unionizing but as far as I can tell no one has yet pushed this issue all the way to the SCOTUS. Might be time now. This would also probably apply to city, county and state unions as well.
If government unions came about through an Executive Order, could they be abolished or at least be emasculated by another such order? WAIT! BETTER YET! Could they be given free Gender-Affirming-Care?
NO. Current negotiated contracts would hold up in court. Both sides agreed to them.
Transition them from the government tit to unemployed.
The feral employee unions began in 1932, prior to FDR with the AFGE and the AFSCME .
Kennedy recognized them, BIG mistake and Carter empowered them.
I'd also note that postal (non)workers unionized in 1889. They are about the worst.
I totally agree with your assessment of the postal (non)workers union being the worst!
My son and his wife were waiting for a package, sitting on the front porch. They watched the mail carrier drive by without stopping and saw the online status flip to undeliverable. They called the post office and complained. Driver got a warning and now their service is even worse.
"The prosecutors handling the January 6 cases are gone—marched out of their offices by security."
Good. That's the way to do it. When it comes time to arrest James Comey, Peter Stzrok, etc., do it the way they arrested Roger Stone, with OAN in tow to record it.
That would be grand! Let the cimmiecrats feel the sting of being bullied. Turn about is fair play.
Please don't do it the way "they" did it; the arrests that is. Just arrest and clean house. Do it professionally. Do not stoop to "their" methods. And, yes, those are pronouns. LOL.
But use Seal Team Six just to make sure it gets done.
Chuck Schumer's on the list. And Obama and AG Merrick Garland if they got paid Bribes to get a Federal Judge to reverse an IP ruling against QualCom.
I do feel Chuck u S. should be charged with threatening two or more SCOTUS members in a just world Cactus.
And then we can raid Joe's Delaware home at the crack of dawn and post video of Jill's underwear drawer and closet. I wouldn't be surprised at all if we also find boxes of Top Secret documents - perhaps the docs Sandy Berger shoved down his pants.
I’ve read that Acting Director Driscoll has refused to turn over the names of everyone (and I mean EVERYONE) involved in the J6 action. Of course, his name would be on the list, also. Not a good look for him.
I think that he was.
I recommend that DJT via the White House press secretary give out an annual award for fake news reporting. It should be called the Walter Duranty Award in honor of the NYT Moscow chief correspondent in the 1930’s who hid Stalin’s police state and promoted Communism.
Have a special chair at the WH Briefing Room for the Reporter - like up front facing the crowd of propaganda-ists. With a Dunce Hat on Fibbers' Friday...
YOU play hardball Cactus !!
LOVE that idea!
And Karoline Leavitt can announce it every year from the WH Press Room on April Fools Day!!
This article confirms that giving The Donald four years to stew & scheme was the best outcome of 2020 .. he is on fire .. and the fuel is common sense
He didn't stew and steam or plot revenge. He is just doing it
He studied and did his homework. That’s what smart people do.
I’m taking it. I was going to retire anyway. 7 months free leave at full salary so I have more time to spend reading Don’s column vs chatting with y’all.
Good call. My recommendation.
My frustration is that wanted to help clean up the government. That’s already been my job for 12 years at my agency. Nobody would listen. Now I have an executive who wants change and no one from his admin is listening to me either. Bye bye.
Greg, there may be some new and effective outside consultants spring up after DOGE completes its initial work. Maybe you should start talking to other like minded folks to explore that?
Then perhaps you are part of the problem too? You are taking advantage of taxpayers, aren’t you? If you intended to retire then do so. The severance doesn’t apply to you.
I would agree otherwise. I didn’t intend to retire this year. But he gave me an offer I couldn’t refuse. Sorry. Don’t hate. I sacrificed 28 years of life in military. And 12 more to this job. That’s 40 years of my life to serving our country only to be kicked in the teeth. 7 months is a small price for you to pay. If I stayed another year or two, my retirement annuity would be $500 or more per month.
Congrats! Excellent timing for you!
The way it reads to me is you are resigning, not retiring. I don't see retirement benefits as part of this offer. Don't assume, check to be sure. (unless you are not eligible for them)
Remember Hoffer's maxim: Every good cause begins as a movement, becomes a business and degerates into a racket. We are, and have for some time now, been in the "racket" stage of government. For example, the "civil servce" began as a "good government" movement. Those who came under its protections eventually regarded their sinecures as a "business" (as in the business of making a living off the taxpayers) and then it became a racket, whereby those on the inside came to believe they were entitled to remain forever the beneficiaries of taxpayer largesse and viewed every threat to that cozy little arrangement as a personal threat. Or perhaps to put a less charitable spin on it, one might view all government as a necessary evil, as our Founders did. In that view, the equation is simple: more government, more evil; less government, less evil. The trick is to get the balance right. Things have been way out of balance for decades and Trump's moves are precisely what is necessary to restore proper balance. It is a titanic struggle, no doubt, and the enemies of freedom are working feverishly to stop that from happening. The outcome, as said The Duke of Wellington about Waterloo, will be a close run thing. Let us pray for Trump's success. And ours.
The buyout was a stroke of genius. How many federal employees, seeing the chainsaw now slicing through the federal "workforce", are doing a little math? Take the buyout and update the resume, possibly getting a new job quickly, or risk getting pink-slipped with no benefits. I can just see the meme of the guy sweating over which of two buttons to push.
Left-stream media is neglecting to remind everyone that Clinton did the buyout. Saved many millions when he balanced the budget.
Is that true? If so, that's a very valuable point for people to know about. Someone needs to find some print or video documentation of it, and get it widely published--post it on Twitter, etc.
Yes
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1994/03/30/Clinton-signs-federal-buyout-bill-into-law/8183765003600/
Excellent!!! Send to tons of people so it gets out there! Get someone to post it on twitter.
BH, I took some time today (Feb. 6th) to hunt thru the Comments to find this posting you did, documenting Clinton's buyout of federal employees. You should be really happy to see that just a few minutes ago--documentation of Clinton's buyout was posted at the very top of Citizen Free Press's stack as the #3 item.
(I assume you're familiar with citizenfreepress.com?)
By now, it's probably down to item #10 or further down, because CFP sometimes posts alot of things very rapidlyl.
But still, your bringing up this point on Monday, I believe, had an impact. In the dynamic media environment today, we can't exactly trace cause and effect, but I would bet you had an impact. By posting that very valuable point about Clinton, we can't know who may have read it and then posted a comment on Twitter, which caused someone else to research and post documentation somewhere else, etc., or whether Kane or someone close to Kane saw your comment and you more directly led to its being highlighted AT THE TOP OFTHE STACK on Citizen Free Press.
Remember, CFP has 550 million page views per month!!!! It is the #1 top read media source on the Right, flirting with the Top Ten online news sources in the entire country.
Anyway, I just think you should pat yourself on the back for recalling this interesting and very relevant action that Clinton took, and bringing it to people's attention.
Have a great day! TPG
8 months of paid vacation? Could be a temptation to many. If just 3% took the offer the savings would be enormous! What the swamp really fears is that anyone will accept the offer and establish a beachhead for reducing the size of government.
If you as a government employee has your job eliminated they have to offer you a job elsewhere. It could be at a lower pay scale but "Save Pay" kicks in. You don't lose any money but your step increases are halved until you meet the current step your in. You also may have to move to another state.
Lotta rules and conditions, huh?
The biggest pain at both agencies I worked for were the constant safety and general training requirements. It at times ate up a lot of actual work time. It came from top down and a lot of times it was not needed in current job duties. It just looked good to them.
Federal bureaucrats have never worked for an independent company that downsized. They don’t know (yet) that the first round of RIFs get the best offers. The next round will be for less, or none.
Too bad they have no marketable skills. Maybe there’s a barista job in their remote WFH spot.
The answer is, learn to pick berries.
Dingle berries, or fly shit out of pepper
Nice start. Now lawfare them into the poorhouse
What proof do any of you have that this lady has broken any laws? Let's not just clump everyone into one narrative.
You outdid yourself this morning Don
Great article, nice way to start the week!
My favorite quote of Don's great article today: "you should be terrified that the government is purging truth and science to fit an ideology"
Gee, sounds like what "I am Science Dr. Fauci" did.
The media still doesn't get it.
“The new appointees in charge of OPM have moved the agency's chief management officer, Katie Malague, out of her office and to a new office on a different floor, the officials said.”
Why not sent an unmistakable signal and move her into a broom closet?
Take away her Red Stapler too....
OFFICE SPACE was and still is a classic movie.
Witch broom closet? The one where she keeps her costume?
Yes, the one with the pointy black hat.
Ha!
I dealt with OPM during my Gov't employment and they were very good at taking care of us.. A lot of really good lower level employees work there and I'm sure they are probably top heavy like all agencies. This lady would be a policy maker so she needed to be given new duties as she would have been seen as a barrier to implementing Trumps policies.
I’m expecting a suicide or two among these 51 scoundrels. It’s not the removal of security clearances, but the banning from federal buildings that will push them over the edge. No reason now to live! Their gods have failed them.
Actually there probably be no suicides in this group. Suicide is often an act of conscience. Despair over ones wrong doing. Extreme depression can also be a motivation. These people are as vindictive as skunks raising a stink wherever they go . Look to them to band together and plot the next political insurrection against the one they were determined to destroy. Evil never rests. It never slumbers. They are all unburdened by conscience and driven by hate.
They will find plenty of political refuge outside of the federal buildings.
Did you happen to notice that all of them, good little members of the party of DEI that they are, are white?
I also noticed that 44 (or so) of the 51 are not just white, but MEN.
For those who have commented often that the problem with the country is WOMEN, and that the 19th Amendment should be repealed: realize that white men have been equally (or MORE) responsible for the destruction wrought by the Democratic Party.
There may be stylistic differences between the men and the women. Women may tend to be more vocal, emotional, and visible (and thereby easy targets to criticize); but the white men work more quietly behind the scenes as the managers, fund raisers, and implementers of the poison.
And there is a special level of insanity, in that all these white men have been supporting an ideology and movement that hates white men.
So can we drop this crap about repealing the 19th Amendment?
Wow!' And there is a special level of insanity, in that all these white men have been supporting an ideology and movement that hates white men'. Gal, real white men love women and share the idiocy of transgender. We just loathe the females that won't support their sisters. Don't hear much 'roar' anymore-only screech.
Still triggers thoughts how shocked I was when Rush confessed to being a Male Lesbian....
I was just remembering that it was exactly five years ago today that I was driving along listening to the end of another great three hours of Rush - suddenly he dropped the bomb about his cancer diagnosis. I had to pull over for a time and collect myself before driving on. I miss him every day when the clock strikes noon.
RUSH ruled !!
Yeah, the screeching bothers us women on the Right too.
Apologies-The Canada stuff was for LuAnnj.
Thanks for keeping a compendium of all the excellent moves Donald J. Bulldozer is making, Don. It’s hard to keep up, but the smile on my face each day I awaken to all this winning cannot be erased! I’ve even started listening to music again, free of the stress of thinking each day could be our last as a free nation. The long overdue government housecleaning is finally taking place and they only have themselves to blame. You can only push a man so far before he pushes back.
No, there were 8 blacks shown.
They can still make up BS just like they have before. Just need t/b more imaginative now...
I look forward to that!
Well, if they move to Canada they can do it (suicide) there; legally. It is what we need to have here by the way; especially for the terminally ill. But, that is another subject.
Are you insane? Sorry, but that is the most hideous and demonic policy ever! I suggest you do some research on how very, very far afield from the “terminally ill” that particular piece of devilry in Canada has already metastasized. It is beyond horrific!
The method used is, in effect, protracted drowning, I believe, and people are paralyzed so their distress is not visible. That’s as wicked as it gets.
Some people are declared terminal and recover. The power of life and death belongs to God; it is the height of hubris for people to want that control.
The question from you is "are you insane" and the answer, Suzie, is "no". I am avidly aware of the Canadian program and how dastardly it can be. I have many Canadian friends and spent two weeks touring the Maritime Provinces last summer. There is an option for the terminally ill in Canada; we have no option here. I am concerned about that and that only. I was certainly not promoting simply adopting what they Canadians have done. Learning from what they have done is part of due diligence research. You have a good week, a safe one, and a sane one.
Sorry, perhaps I did come on there a bit strong.
But the idea of “assisted suicide” to me is the slipperiest of all slopes, tantamount to legalizing murder, and right up there with abortion. How it has already morphed into a virtual “option” for nigh unto anyone in Canada for the most minimal of actual or imagined heath reasons is beyond terrifying.
There will always be heart-wrenching stories used to push such things emotionally but that is no justification in my book for legalizing murder by government.
Actually, the only sin of no repentance is blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.
Murderers can receive forgiveness with repentance.
Pete , I think you stepped in it !
Just an aside, but many, if not most, states in America have passed state legislation called "Medical Aid In Dying". These bills (most of which have the same template) require the adult to have received a primary and second-opinion terminal diagnosis, be made aware of the range of palliative supports, be determined to "have capacity" (clarity of mind) to make their own decision, have a psychological examination, and thoroughly document their choice. Then, a doctor can prescribe medication that the patient would self-administer, which would cause their death (usually fairly peacefully within 3 hours).
Although these laws are already on the books in many states, in America we have not been "promoting" them as aggressively as they are in Canada. And I believe Canada's laws are more lenient, allowing assisted suicide for a much broader range of not-really-terminal situations.
And as another aside, I would never wish for any of those 51 scoundrels to be sent to the land of our friends Chuck and LuAnn!
Yeah , I am with TPG . Everybody has their own dogs already , the Gunny ( my dad ) said " never put your problems off on someone else " .
What a heartwarming column to start my Monday with a smile! None of these stories were unfamiliar, but seeing them all together with some names thrown in was icing on a Trump 47 celebration cake. The best part is that he told everyone that this was coming, and nobody seemed to believe him. I don’t know if I’ll survive Trump’s first 100 days in office, but I’m going to try my best!
Whole lotta shakin' goin' on, Don.
" Government employees can now pick the crops." My fav.