Nothing to see here - need higher taxes not fix government waste

[ark steel]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...oyees-paid-to-stay-home-for-more-than-a-year/

 

[IndySteel]

Another one of the countless examples of why we need a businessman in charge. Slash and burn, baby, slash and burn!

 

[Ron Burgundy]

DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson is black and Sen. Charles Grassley is white AND a Republican, therefore this is a racist attack without merit.

 

[DBS1970]

Doesn't surprise me in the least.

 

[Troglodyte]

I'm all for cutting government waste, but at what? $10 million a crack, they are going to have to find stuff like this every ten minutes, 24/7.

 

[Rod Farva]

There should be a federal agency formed to oversee things like this.

 

[deljzc]

Part of the reason federal government has gotten so damn big is because we allow career congressmen the purse strings.

If we had term limits, government would naturally simplify itself because there wouldn't be 20+ year guys with lawyer staffs making it so complex no one can make head or tails of anything. If new congressmen had to learn this stuff in a limited amount of time and we didn't allow ex-congressmen to work in the system, it would have to get simpler and smaller.

I'm an advocate term limits. And I would change representatives from 2 years to 3 years service so it's not all about getting into office and immediately starting your next campaign to stay there.

I would put term limits of 2 for president (8 years), 3 for representatives (9 years) and 2 for senators (12 years). That's it.

 

[Tibs]

I would put term limits of 2 for president (8 years), 3 for representatives (9 years) and 2 for senators (12 years). That's it.

Amen. No good reason not to do it.