On 05-20-13, BOB KLAHN said to ALL:   
      
      
   BK>http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/05/07/   
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   BK>Financial Institutions Admit Austerity Failed   
      
      
   BK>Thursday, 09 May 2013 13:32 By Ken Klippenstein   
      
      
   By the way....I'm gonna allow myself one `follow-up' on my reply to this   
   `Admit Austerity Failed' thing from this AM, and then I will post here no   
   more....IF the moderator of this echo can follow his own friggin' rules and   
   stop mentioning me here, dragging arguments involving me into here from other   
   echoes, and stop dragging messages that I post in other echoes in here and   
   running his mouth (keyboard) about them in a venue I am not allowed to post   
   in!   
      
      
   Typically, I'm done with whatever project goal I've set for the day (I'm   
   retired now and only work part-time...so *I* get to set the pace of work and   
   the minimum accomplishment for the day's labor), and usually by this time I've   
   cleaned up, had a cool drink and am out on the InterNet looking for   
   interesting news items and columns to read, post up in Fido, and comment on.   
      
      
   Here's something I ran across just now that is a huge illustration of what I   
   was saying this morning in my reply to this `Austerity Failed' article posted   
   by the `illustrious' moderator of this echo.   
      
      
   According to an article by Mathew Boyle...the union representing the   
   `adjudications officers' and staff, have come out in opposition to the so-   
   called `gang of eight' new immigration reform bill (which, by the way is NOT   
   in any way an *immigration reform* bill at all, but nothing more than a   
   `business as usual illegal immigration with amnesty under-the-table' bill. It   
   just moves the goal posts a little closer to the `illegal immigrant's' side of   
   the board, but THAT'S a matter for another time).   
      
      
   But forget the aim of the article. THAT isn't what I'm `following up' on...   
   what's IN the article is something that caught my eye and hit the nail on the   
   head in what I was saying this morning:   
      
      
   IN the article, entitled *Union For Immigration Processing Officers Join   
   Opposition To Reform Bill*, it is mentioned that there are (get ready folks)   
   12,000 adjudications officers and staff! Get that? 12friggin' thousand FEDERAL   
   employees that do ONE job!   
      
      
   Now....just for the heck of it...lets do a little math here:   
      
      
   12,000 federal employees (and staff).....okay....lets say each employee is   
   getting a high-five to mid-six-figure salary.   
      
      
   Lets use ...oh...say...$65,000 for the low-end (that does NOT include `perks   
   and benefits PLUS bonus's'), but we'll just stick to the salary part of the   
   pay package. And the high-end salary (supervisors and administrators)   
   ...say..oh lets just take the figure $150,000. Some get much, much more....but   
   lets stick to manageable numbers for the sake of illustration, shall we?   
      
      
   Now....lets take the median salary of those two figures, $107,500....and use   
   that as our calculating figure.   
      
      
   Ok...multiply $107,000 by 12,000, and I come up with 1 BILLION 290 MILLION   
   dollars...and THATS just for the salaries of people who sit at a desk all day   
   doing `adjudications' on the wild-ass tales illegal aliens lay on them to get   
   to stay in this country legally!   
      
      
   And guess what, folks? We ain't even gettin' our money's worth, because this   
   son-of-a-bitch in the White House (YES Lee! I called `my president, your   
   president, everybody's president' a son-of-a-bitch!) has passed the word to   
   `scale back' (to be polite) on the enforcement side of our already-in-place   
   immigration laws!   
      
      
   There's one BILLION 290 MILLION of OUR dollars that aren't even doing what   
   they're supposed to be doing:  paying people to enforce existing immigration   
   law, weeding out the scammers and the false-documented and sending them back   
   to wherever the hell they came from!   
      
      
   Talk about a perfect target for *austerity*? There's 1 billion 290 million   
   dollars we could save by cutting the entire bunch off and sending them home.   
      
   It would kick $1,290,000,000 loose that could be applied to the debt, or the   
   deficit, and they aren't doing what we pay them for anyway!   
      
      
   How many other useless sub-offices of departments and bureaus are there that   
   equal or higher savings could be realized from? Who knows!   
      
      
      
      
      
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