Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Oil company bail-out

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   Ken
   You should move to Philly, this mornings paper had a major article
   about how our beloved city initiated a plan to induce early retirement
   of city employees to save money.......so far. some of those who helped
   enact the law have walked off with hundreds of thousands of dollars
   ($450,000.00 being the highest published) and......they did not retire
   because they were too hard to replace......the amazing thing about
   this is that the City has not figured out if it has gained
   $125,000,000.00 long term, or lost $145,000,000.00 short
   term..........I think I know.

   Phil  (Seriously)
   ----- Original Message -----
   From: Ken Rentiers <rentiers [at] mac.com>
   Date: Sunday, January 4, 2009 12:38 am
   Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Oil company bail-out
   To: Phil Tegtmeier <philville [at] dejazzd.com>
   Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
   >
   > On Jan 3, 2009, at 10:14 PM, Rich wrote:
   >
   > > WASHINGTON - Motorists are driving less and buying less
   > gasoline,
   > > which
   > > means fuel taxes aren't raising enough money to keep pace with
   > the
   > > cost of
   > > road, bridge and transit programs.
   > >
   > > A roughly 50 percent increase in gasoline and diesel fuel
   > taxes is
   > > being
   > > urged by the commission until the government devises another
   > way for
   > > motorists to pay for using public roads.
   >
   > What a crock of excrement. Our cities are going broke funding
   > pension
   > obligations to generations of outrageously compensated civil
   > servants
   > enjoying a cushy retirement from their do-little unionized
   > sinecures.
   > Teachers that didn't teach, sullen clerks and hapless drivers
   > of
   > broken buses.
   >
   > In Texas state highways remain good to very good, but city
   > streets
   > inside Houston have become studded with pavement breaks and
   > patches,
   > steel plates and potholes as a result of subsidence (well water)
   > and
   > complete lack of maintenance. Some streets are near-on
   > impassable for
   > cars with sport suspensions and low aspect tires. I first saw
   > this in
   > Manhattan years ago, spies in SoCal tell me the problem is
   > widespread
   > in LA as well. Across the country our InterStates are falling apart.
   >
   > Diocletian did in the Roman Empire when he abandoned their Gods.
   > The
   > radical Christian sects won. Roman civil society withered,
   > the
   > aqueducts dried up, roads and bridges became  unusable,
   > halting the
   > import of goods and supplies. The Mediterranean trade routes
   > which had
   > flourished for centuries were lost. The population had to
   > abandon Rome
   > to forage in the countryside for the next 1000 or so years
   > as
   > civilization ratcheted back to a feudal system of
   > subsistence
   > agriculture .
   >
   > I get upset when I see that our cities can no longer manage to
   > fill
   > potholes, because they are so damn broke funding the
   > accumulated
   > overgenerous pensions of the uncivil service. Increasing fuel
   > taxes,
   > and all other taxes, is no doubt inevitable as our corrupt
   > Washington
   > pols fall all over each other in an insane rush to spend more
   > and
   > more trillions subsidizing their banking buddies and car
   > manufacturers
   > who cannot manage to build anything anymore that anyone wants to
   buy.
   >
   > Left untrammeled, capitalism would soon purge the
   > incompetent,
   > avaricious and unsuccessful losers we call the Big Three.
   > By now we
   > would be on our way to economic recovery. In a non-union car
   > made here
   > in America
   >
   > Keynesian economics insists you can spend your way out of debt.
   > This
   > idea was discredited years ago in previous economic disasters,
   > but no
   > one teaches history anymore so who knows? Now we have elected a
   > new
   > collectivist cadre intent on massive expansion of government
   > into
   > every corner of the economy, using borrowed funds from
   > hostile
   > countries increasingly unwilling to buy our debt.
   >
   > In summary: Moronic Associated Press Writer Joan Lowy! Stop
   > parroting
   > the treasonous snakes in elected office and look around. I am
   > fairly
   > certain that wile Rome burned an obeisant cadre of supplicant
   > scribes
   > struggled to come up with ever more florid turns of latin
   > phrase
   > complimenting Nero as he fiddled away.
   >
   > Go Gators!
   >
   > -ken-
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   Philip "Phil" Tegtmeier
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