To Protect, Serve, and Cash In

May 13, 2009

The most overpaid people in America? Maybe the world?

What makes it worse, of course, is the fact that the best and brightest don’t stand a chance of making it onto this police force unless they are also heavily connected to local pols or highly-placed people who are already on the force.

I don’t begrudge any policeman from making a good wage, but when some of these people are pulling hundreds of thousands of dollars (supplied by you, the taxpayer) for doing little more than issuing speeding tickets and taking the beer away from high school students, then something is amiss.


A Campaign Promise Fulfilled

May 13, 2009

In order to fulfill his campaign promise to not raise taxes on people earning less than $250,000, President Obama issued an executive order forbidding anyone below that income threshold from drinking and smoking.


It’s Your Money, People

May 13, 2009

Feeling stimulated? I sure am.

If that doesn’t turn you on, maybe this hangover from the Bushies will.

H/T QDex