It's A Start

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama (Reuters) - Alabama's debt-ridden Jefferson County laid off about two-thirds of its 3,600 employees on Monday because of plummeting revenues, a move that will sharply curtail services in areas ranging from roads to courthouses.

Good. Now they need to start eliminating all those abusive, intrusive and unconstitutional rules and regulations that they needed those now layed-off 2,400 bureaucrats to enforce. My money says that fire, police, emergency services, sewer, water, maintenance, roads and bridges... All those have taken as many hits as they can already, so now the paper shufflers are starting to go. Its about time.

This is what's coming down the pike for everybody, and there is no way out. We now have millions more people than jobs, not including the hardcore unemployable. That's not going to change. It's going to get worse. Desperate politicians at all levels of government, trying to maintain the status quo, are going to tax our remaining industries either out of business, or out of the country.

You see, governments everywhere never want to cut back, to trim the fat, to balance the budgets. Their ultimate solution has always been to just raise taxes, exempting themselves of course. But we have lost so many jobs and industries nationwide that we have finally reached the tipping point, an event our politicians have been poo-pooing for decades, believing it could never happen.

But it has. Those millions and millions of jobs we have lost? They are not coming back. The feds have spent so long chipping away at our industrial base that it can no longer provide the jobs we need, or the taxes the government desperately needs to maintain its solid-gold lifestyle.

So. Our solid-gold government structure - from county to federal - is finally starting to face the music.

First thing we need to do is get rid of all those lunatics in Washington, from the top down. Then we need to get rid of this fair-trade, open-borders insanity that has destroyed so many American companies, and start rebuilding our industrial and manufaturing infrastructure.

It won't happen overnight. It's taken the sonsabitches in Washington and their greedy accomplices decades to cripple us to this point. But the sooner we put a stop to them, the sooner we can get started rebuilding what they have destroyed.