Goldman Sachs the whole world did fleece,
Setting economies to decrease.
Let me say with great ardor,
That none were hit harder,
Than the citizenry of Greece.
Yes, I’m all caught up! Thank you, faithful readers, for hanging in there. Let’s see how long I can keep ahead!
Credit card phone activation,
Can lead to some bad perturbation,
One can’t get off the phone,
Sans giving all you own!
How dare they call this innovation!
Yesterday’s limerick dealt with local budgeting in the tiny burg of Los Angeles. Today we take a more “macro” look at budgeting. From TPM:
House Republicans don’t have an official budget yet. But they have what amounts to a first draft. The official budget will be released in March or April and will be authored by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), the ranking member of the House Budget Committee in consultation with the other Republicans on the Committee. But Ryan has released a budget he’d like. And it’s actually fairly detailed. And if you read it, which we have, you start to wonder why Democrats aren’t making a bigger deal out of it.
What’s in it? A few interesting things.
First, it calls for big cuts in Social Security benefits for everyone currently under 55 years of age. On top of the cuts it also calls for privatizing Social Security.
It’s already become a near surety,
When we’re talking of Social Security:
GOP wants it cut!
Excuse me, say what?
Hope this leads to their party’s obscurity.
Antonio Villagairosa’s tenure as Mayor of Los Angeles has been marked by scandals involving large back-room payments to developers, while citizens have seen increases in everything from trash pickup to water rates to parking fines (sometimes more than 100%!). Well, he just had to announce that 1,000 municipal workers would be let go.
Villagairosa could not be more way-off,
In between his vacations and days-off,
His budget so bad,
Announcing he’s sad,