And it is heartwarming that a city has finally found waste and inefficiencies somewhere besides in the police force and fire departments. That’s a first.

That’s what Washington’s doing, right?

It’s like how Cali pushed a pay date from July 31st to Aug 1st in order to “save” on their budget.

Does it mean they are going to skip whatever round of trash pickup is supposed to happen today? No, it just means they’ll do it a different day.

But wait, will that involve OT pay on the day they double up? Hmmm…

It’s kind of like boycotting a gas station one day. Does it cause anyone to drive less? No. Does it reduce gas usage? No. Does it save anyone any money or do anything for the environment. No.

So if they do it in some logical way then fine. But of course the mayor and the supervisors and so on make out okay, and little people (workers and ‘customers’) get screwed.

I’ve no doubt they have plenty of fat to cut, but I’m reminded of the example of the guy with the pennies on the coffee table describing some of Obama’s “savings”. Here’s how you save money – cut the budget of each dept 10% and let them sort it out. Then do the same again next year.

What do you say about people who can’t see failure under their nose. Or is that to see it is to admit imperfection and fallibility.

Meanwhile in Canada there are rumbles of privatization of medical care.

Amazing how the MSM now, all of a sudden, want people to believe those folks with the Professionally produced signs (from ACORN/SEIU) touting the Democrat Talking Points and/or Support for HC takeover are somehow the “real GrassRoots” out to take on the Astroturf… too funny….

We must INVITE more (we invite, they pay to bus) friends, family, neighbors, total strangers, etc, to the TEApeats/Townhall events.

We’ve had “reduced Services” days here in Michigan too…. Finally, days they cannot do additional damage to us. This, of course, is just the usual setup (and we will hear more about cutting Police/Fire/etc again) for Extortion (Extortion, pure and simple (to raise taxes or avoid/enact legislation)) and there are far too many STUPID (not ignorant, they have had plenty of chances to see and learn, they choose to be STUPID) that will again be willing to succumb to it and attempt to drag all of us down with them. WE CANNOT KEEP ALLOWING THIS SLIDE!!!!

If Government workers (READ: SEIU MEMBERS) are having time off and will be using that time to work against us — we need folks to use some of their vacation time (if necessary) to get out and protect their/our interests. NOT FUN, but some of those folks won’t have jobs to take time off from if things keep going that will further destroy the Economy and/or our Capitalist foundation.

August 17, 2009 is an upaid reduced service day. In addition, all staff must take 6 UNPAID furlough days prior to 12/31/2009. Furlough days may not be taken as holidays, sick, personal or personal days.

One of my co-workers lives in the city and I asked him why he keeps re-electing the same clowns every time. His answer: the garbage gets picked up. Except for today, apparently.