Comments on: Where’s My Bailout? http://www.dailyplunge.com/2010/03/wheres-my-bailout/ Plunging Towards Gomorrah Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:36:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: club soda http://www.dailyplunge.com/2010/03/wheres-my-bailout/comment-page-1/#comment-1683 club soda Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:38:51 +0000 http://www.dailyplunge.com/?p=2624#comment-1683 Not as exercised (exorcised? excised?) about a couple of positions as I am about almost 400,000 federal employees making more than six figures, knowing full well that most of those jobs could be cut with no impact whatsoever on any American citizen's standard of living. In fact, it would make it better because the feds could then lower our taxes. You may have missed the point, which is that a growing government is hazardous to the average citizen's freedom. By the way, the climate has been changing now for the past 4 billion years or so, but I guess the NPS is just now figuring that out. I'd recommend a good meteoroligist and perhaps a solar scientist and leave it at that. Not as exercised (exorcised? excised?) about a couple of positions as I am about almost 400,000 federal employees making more than six figures, knowing full well that most of those jobs could be cut with no impact whatsoever on any American citizen’s standard of living. In fact, it would make it better because the feds could then lower our taxes. You may have missed the point, which is that a growing government is hazardous to the average citizen’s freedom. By the way, the climate has been changing now for the past 4 billion years or so, but I guess the NPS is just now figuring that out. I’d recommend a good meteoroligist and perhaps a solar scientist and leave it at that.

]]> By: Henshaw http://www.dailyplunge.com/2010/03/wheres-my-bailout/comment-page-1/#comment-1681 Henshaw Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:53:42 +0000 http://www.dailyplunge.com/?p=2624#comment-1681 I think Club Soda is using this position as an example of a worthless position. The Forest Service in general is a terrible bureaucracy for a variety of reasons. Randal O’Toole is a great resource in this area. However, I think your comment provides an insight into why government grows unchecked. We can complain all we want about the size and incompetence of government or we can complain that the average citizens don’t seem to know that National Parks are run inefficiently. The Forest Service isn’t doing a good job. Please provide an example of a government agency that does a good job. This climate change position is worthless. It springs from the imagination of some hopelessly ill informed civil servant. I think Club Soda is using this position as an example of a worthless position. The Forest Service in general is a terrible bureaucracy for a variety of reasons. Randal O’Toole is a great resource in this area. However, I think your comment provides an insight into why government grows unchecked. We can complain all we want about the size and incompetence of government or we can complain that the average citizens don’t seem to know that National Parks are run inefficiently.

The Forest Service isn’t doing a good job. Please provide an example of a government agency that does a good job. This climate change position is worthless. It springs from the imagination of some hopelessly ill informed civil servant.

]]> By: R Webster http://www.dailyplunge.com/2010/03/wheres-my-bailout/comment-page-1/#comment-1680 R Webster Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:28:20 +0000 http://www.dailyplunge.com/?p=2624#comment-1680 I'm amazed you're getting so exercised about a couple of positions within the federal government to help us better understand how human activity and climate change are impacting special natural and cultural resources. You don't think pollution and climate change are impacting plants and animals in our national parks? You don't think minimal government efforts to protect these special places are worth it? The private sector should provide the bulk of jobs in this nation, and is the engine that drives the economy, but no private sector company wants to take on the task of protecting (nor should they) one of this nation's greatest assets - our national parks. That's clearly an appropriate role for the federal government. Less ranting...more common sense. I’m amazed you’re getting so exercised about a couple of positions within the federal government to help us better understand how human activity and climate change are impacting special natural and cultural resources. You don’t think pollution and climate change are impacting plants and animals in our national parks? You don’t think minimal government efforts to protect these special places are worth it? The private sector should provide the bulk of jobs in this nation, and is the engine that drives the economy, but no private sector company wants to take on the task of protecting (nor should they) one of this nation’s greatest assets – our national parks. That’s clearly an appropriate role for the federal government. Less ranting…more common sense.

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