Alex Sink

I am a registered Republican, but I have to say that I am seriously giving consideration to voting for Alex Sink. I have looked at Rick Scott's website and Bill Mccollum's. Both of them only say they want to bring accountability to state government. Rick Scott is proposing no more pay raises and wants us to pay into our own retirement.

The PBA is endorsing Sink and here is a clip from her website about pay for state employees:

Reforming the State Workforce

The face of Florida government is reflected by the efforts of its employees, whose contributions are intended to help people, businesses, communities, and overall quality of life. Compensating public employees fairly is essential, because without the ability to attract and retain well-trained and knowledgeable staff, Florida government cannot deliver the programs and services that citizens depend on. Florida already is not competitive in this area compared to other Florida industries and even other states. In fact, state government employees have not had a general pay raise in the past five years. In 2008, the average annual state employee salary of $38,839 was 4.5 percent below Florida's average wage for all industries. Compared to other states, Florida ranks last in the ratio of employees to residents: 118 per 10,000 compared to the national average of 216 employees per 10,000 residents. And Florida is dead last in the nation in state employee payroll expenditures per resident: $38 compared to the national average of $69 per resident. As Governor, Alex Sink will push to ensure that state employees are recognized for high performance by receiving fair and competitive compensation.

She will have my vote. I'm not crazy about her but consider her the lesser of the three evils. At least she is addressing the plight of state workers and does not appear to want to balance the budget on the backs of the state employee.

If the alternative is Rick Scott, the fraud, you should definitely vote for Alex Sink. She's a pro-business, traditional values democrat who wold do well.

In the end, if she picks Rod Smith as her running-mate ...it wont matter who you vote for 'cause they'll win.

Sink is little different than Obama. She is making promises that she knows she can't possibly keep in order to get fools to vote for her. It would seem that Americans have not learned anything from the ACTIONS of the Marxist Obama and his tribe of thieves and lying apostles. Next OB will want to make citizens of all illegals to get them to vote for the growing socialists in control of our Nation.

And, NO, I am not a Republican; I'm independent and have no personal dog in this race. When voting, I just reflect on ACTIONS of the candidates and what statements they make that are logical and reasonable.

Sink, Meeks, Christ, and McC are politicians who have no interest in promoting what is "...in the best, long-run interest of the State." Plus, none of the candidates has any ability to change the national economic climate that so strongly will impact Florida's budgeting unless the Marxist philosophy is removed from all of D.C.

It is time people realize that protected social groups will have to have their "OX GORED" by any honest future leader to prevent the budgetary disasters seen in California, New York, Illinois, and New Jersey from being experienced in Florida.

Active FHP "troopers" are probably underpaid and are entitled to a "step plan." However, our total compensation is not out of line with other "economically comparable" private sector employees -- who pay our salaries. When you take into account the whole job, the starting FHP compensation is reasonable. Remember that we are paid for every minute we work from the minute we go X-8 until X-42, there is no commuting time nor costs, we have a take home car, have an excellent retirement program (probably too good, for current economic conditions), minimum levels of work effort required, and have opportunities to earn higher wages with 208 and PROMOTIONS. The only things lacking are outstanding management, unbiased promotions, a step plan, and members who learn to live within their incomes or engage in activity to promote to higher levels of productivity and compensation.

Let's face it, if being a FHP trooper were really so bad, no one would apply that meets minimum qualifications; and, we'd all be at those better paying positions---yea, right there are so many of those spots available for our peoples' resumes.

I really like the comparison to "private sector" employees.

I am so tired of hearing that police, firefighters, paramedics, and even the military are just the same as the clerk working at Walmart.

Our job is not the same, our standards are not the same, shamefully, our pay is almost the same!

She will have my vote. I'm not crazy about her but consider her the lesser of the three evils. At least she is addressing the plight of state workers and does not appear to want to balance the budget on the backs of the state employee.

I agree with you. She got my vote as well.

I like this as well...

Review similar state agency functions for consolidation. Several state agencies provide similar services such as regulate businesses, issue commercial registrations and/or licenses, print agency materials, and other tasks. Alex Sink will lead a top-to-bottom review of state government functions for consolidation. She will work with her proposed Accountability Office and bring to the table a diverse group of business and community leaders, as well as citizens and industry subject matter experts, to perform this efficiency review and make recommendations to the Legislature.

Reduce unneeded layers of management. As CFO, Alex recently launched an initiative to streamline middle management in the Department of Financial Services, with an estimated savings of $8 to $10 million a year when fully implemented. Under the new policy, as agency managers resign or retire, their positions will be reviewed for elimination and the agency structure reengineered using existing staff to cut unnecessary management layers in government. By achieving a 7:1 employee to manager ratio, the agency will be in line with best business practices. Implementing this policy statewide could save the state as much as $300 million a year.

I like this as well...

Review similar state agency functions for consolidation. Several state agencies provide similar services such as regulate businesses, issue commercial registrations and/or licenses, print agency materials, and other tasks. Alex Sink will lead a top-to-bottom review of state government functions for consolidation. She will work with her proposed Accountability Office and bring to the table a diverse group of business and community leaders, as well as citizens and industry subject matter experts, to perform this efficiency review and make recommendations to the Legislature.

Reduce unneeded layers of management. As CFO, Alex recently launched an initiative to streamline middle management in the Department of Financial Services, with an estimated savings of $8 to $10 million a year when fully implemented. Under the new policy, as agency managers resign or retire, their positions will be reviewed for elimination and the agency structure reengineered using existing staff to cut unnecessary management layers in government. By achieving a 7:1 employee to manager ratio, the agency will be in line with best business practices. Implementing this policy statewide could save the state as much as $300 million a year.

This piece above is a good example of her business savvy. You dont get to be the CEO of Bank of America by accident. She is probably our best bet. If you want government run like a business, on a budget and on time...Alex Sink is probably as close as you'll get.

I like this as well...

Review similar state agency functions for consolidation. Several state agencies provide similar services such as regulate businesses, issue commercial registrations and/or licenses, print agency materials, and other tasks. Alex Sink will lead a top-to-bottom review of state government functions for consolidation. She will work with her proposed Accountability Office and bring to the table a diverse group of business and community leaders, as well as citizens and industry subject matter experts, to perform this efficiency review and make recommendations to the Legislature.

Reduce unneeded layers of management. As CFO, Alex recently launched an initiative to streamline middle management in the Department of Financial Services, with an estimated savings of $8 to $10 million a year when fully implemented. Under the new policy, as agency managers resign or retire, their positions will be reviewed for elimination and the agency structure reengineered using existing staff to cut unnecessary management layers in government. By achieving a 7:1 employee to manager ratio, the agency will be in line with best business practices. Implementing this policy statewide could save the state as much as $300 million a year.

This piece above is a good example of her business savvy. You dont get to be the CEO of Bank of America by accident. She is probably our best bet. If you want government run like a business, on a budget and on time...Alex Sink is probably as close as you'll get.

You ever heard that girl talk? She must be from Quincy.
If you want state government to run like a business, you'd fire most state workers, hire a bunch of illegals and put wakenhut in them black an tans. In fact, shut down all state law enforcement and contract what ever it is they do to the local sheriffs. That's what Rick Scott should do when he's elected. Reduce state spending by reducing non essential positions.

I am a registered Republican, but I have to say that I am seriously giving consideration to voting for Alex Sink. I have looked at Rick Scott's website and Bill Mccollum's. Both of them only say they want to bring accountability to state government. Rick Scott is proposing no more pay raises and wants us to pay into our own retirement.

The PBA is endorsing Sink and here is a clip from her website about pay for state employees:

Reforming the State Workforce

The face of Florida government is reflected by the efforts of its employees, whose contributions are intended to help people, businesses, communities, and overall quality of life. Compensating public employees fairly is essential, because without the ability to attract and retain well-trained and knowledgeable staff, Florida government cannot deliver the programs and services that citizens depend on. Florida already is not competitive in this area compared to other Florida industries and even other states. In fact, state government employees have not had a general pay raise in the past five years. In 2008, the average annual state employee salary of $38,839 was 4.5 percent below Florida's average wage for all industries. Compared to other states, Florida ranks last in the ratio of employees to residents: 118 per 10,000 compared to the national average of 216 employees per 10,000 residents. And Florida is dead last in the nation in state employee payroll expenditures per resident: $38 compared to the national average of $69 per resident. As Governor, Alex Sink will push to ensure that state employees are recognized for high performance by receiving fair and competitive compensation.

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR, SHE IS A POLITICIAN. SHE WAS NOT PRESIDENT OF "THE BANK OF AMERICA" SHE WAS A FLORIDA BANK REGION EXEC OF B OF A . SHE IS A WOLF IN SHEEP CLOTHING. UNDERNEATH SHE SUPPORTS OBAMA'S MARXIST VALUES. SHE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO CHANGE ANYTHING. WHEN THE ECONOMY IMPROVES, THE LEGISLATURE WILL HAVE A CHANCE AT IMPROVEMENT.

ONE MORE INSANE CHANGE OF INVESTMENT OF RETIREMENT FUNDS LIKE THE LAST ONE THAT WAS JUST ANNOUNCED THAT WILL INVEST IN DERIVATIVES, AND WE WILL ALL BE IN THE SAME BOAT AS ILLINOIS, ETC.. WAKE UP PEOPLE; DON'T DRINK THE KOOL-AID.
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August 14, 2010

Prior to the financial crisis of 2007 and 2008, the Federal Reserve could always count on being able to stimulate the U.S. economy with a quick cut to interest rates. But now with interest rates just barely above zero, the Federal Reserve is searching for other ways to pump life into a U.S. economy that is staggering about like a drunken college student. One of the ways that the Federal Reserve can do this is through something called “quantitative easing”. In essence, what happens is that the Federal Reserve creates money out of thin air and starts buying things like U.S. Treasuries, mortgage-backed securities and corporate debt. But many economic analysts are now warning that further rounds of quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve could end up setting off a series of events that could ultimately unleash economic hell. In fact, there are quite a few high profile commentators who now believe that hyperinflation in the United States is absolutely inevitable.



Most of the folks populating Congress are so incompetent that they should not even be hired to mop the floors of a Dairy Queen.

For those not familiar with quantitative easing, Wikipedia has a pretty good definition….

The term quantitative easing (QE) describes a form of monetary policy used by central banks to increase the supply of money in an economy when the bank interest rate, discount rate and/or interbank interest rate are either at, or close to, zero.[citation needed] A central bank does this by first crediting its own account with money it has created ex nihilo (“out of nothing”).[1] It then purchases financial assets, including government bonds, mortgage-backed securities and corporate bonds, from banks and other financial institutions in a process referred to as open market operations.

But is it really a good idea for a privately-owned central bank to have the power to create money out of nothing and to do whatever it wants with it outside of U.S. government control?

Of course not, but we dealt with those issues in another article.

What we will concern ourselves with in this article are the negative effects that could be unleashed as the Federal Reserve further abuses this power.

Now keep in mind that disasters don’t usually happen overnight. They usually build over time. When the Federal Reserve begins new rounds of quantitative easing, it will take time for the effects to be felt.

And so far, the new quantitative easing measures that the Federal Reserve has implemented have been relatively mild….

*The Federal Reserve has announced that it will “continue to roll over the Federal Reserve’s holdings of Treasury securities as they mature”.

*The Federal Reserve has also announced that it has decided to reinvest principal payments on mortgage holdings into U.S. Treasury securities.

*The Federal Reserve Bank of New York announced on Wednesday that it will purchase $18 billion in U.S. Treasury securities between now and mid-September.

But most analysts are expecting quantitative easing by the Fed to accelerate – especially if the U.S. economy continues to flounder.

So is there a reason we should be concerned about all of this?

Well, yes there is.

Marc Faber, the author of “The Gloom, Boom and Doom Report”, recently warned CNBC that all of this intervention by the Federal Reserve is going to create a “final crisis” that will destroy the U.S. financial system….

“Investors should have listened to me already six months ago when I wrote that the Fed will continue to monetize … they will print and print and print until the final crisis wipes out the whole system.”

In a recent article, Bob Chapman of the International Forecaster described some of the financial gymnastics that our “financial authorities” go through just to keep the current shell game going….

A d v e r t i s e m e n t
But first, we ignore things like monthly hundred billion plus mathematical discrepancies between the amount of the government’s deficits and the amount of treasury bonds being sold. Then we give the proceeds from the bogus excess treasury sales to foreign countries, foreign central banks and sovereign wealth funds as well as Cayman Island hedge funds so they can do what with it? Why, so they can buy US treasury paper and agency paper, among other things. Yep, we set up the straw men, fund them with counterfeit money illegally created out of thin air beyond what is needed to fund the ever-increasing deficit being created by the drunken sailors running the US government, and we then magically create categories of new mega-buyers in our financial reports to show everyone how our treasury paper is just as “beloved” as in the old days. Why, even the totally bankrupt UK has magically created $180 billion for the express purpose of buying up those treasuries to keep the whole rip-off party going.

What a mess they have created.

Things have gotten so bad that even CNN is publishing articles that openly acknowledge the crisis. In a recent article on CNN entitled “Is This Finally The Economic Collapse?”, Keith R. McCullough warned that the Federal Reserve openly buying large amounts of U.S. government debt is a very dangerous threshold to cross….

Now that the US can’t cut interest rates any lower, the only option left on the table is what the Fed just announced it would start doing — buying Treasury debt. And that could lead the country to the brink of collapse: According to economists Carmen Reinhart & Ken Rogoff, whose views we share, crossing the 90% debt/GDP threshold is the equivalent of crossing the proverbial Rubicon of economic growth. It’s a point from which it’s almost impossible to return.

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And that is the crux of the problem – the U.S. government has a debt that is absolutely spiralling out of control. This is a problem that has been building for decades and there simply is no quick fix for it.

But the truth is that it was seen as far back as 1835. In his article for CNN, Keith R. McCullough included a very appropriate quote by Alexis De Tocqueville, the author of Democracy in America….

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.”

Today, approximately 57% of the U.S. government budget is spent on direct payments to American citizens or is money that is spent on behalf of individual American citizens.

For decades, the “Congress critters” have been bribing the American people (and each other) with massive payouts and have been getting away with it.

But now we are starting to pay the price.

The truth is that the U.S. government has become an expert on wasting money. Most of the folks populating Congress are so incompetent that they should not even be hired to mop the floors of a Dairy Queen, and yet they control how trillions of our tax dollars are spent.

The end result is that we have a financial mess that is absolutely unprecedented.

The U.S. financial system is doomed. The U.S. government and the Federal Reserve will probably end up trying to save it with a massive flood of paper money, and in the end that will likely result in the collapse of the U.S. dollar and hyperinflation.

But hopefully all of that is still a while away yet. For now, the Obama administration and the Federal Reserve are trying to play a very delicate balancing act and are trying to keep this giant house of cards from collapsing.

As incompetent as they are, let’s hope that they can keep things together for at least a while longer, because when things really fall apart we are all going to be feeling the pain.

Hyperinflation = Price controls = Shortages = Riots on the street

If ALex runs the state like she ran Bank of AMerica, we all better move!

REPUBLICAN PARTY- GOAL IS TO REDUCE GOVERNMENT FUNCTIONS / INTERVENTION AND INCREASE CONTRIBUTIONS TO PRIVATE SECTOR / BIG BUSINESS

DEMOCRATIC PARTY- GOAL IS TO PROVIDE MORE SERVICES, BIGGER GOVERNMENT, LESS FOR BIG BUSINESS

IF YOU ARE AN LEO , REPUBLICAN PARTIES MIGHT HAVE THE CONSERVATIVE VIEWS YOU LOOK FOR IN LAWS/REGULATION, BUT THEIR SPENDING VIEWS ARE PROBABLY NOT IN LINE WITH YOURS....ESPECIALLY WHEN WE ARE SO FAR BEHIND RIGHT NOW...THINK ABOUT IT....

WE NEED SOMETHING IN THE MIDDLE, BUT A DEMOCRAT IS MORE LIKELY TO ENHANCE GOVERNMENT THAN A REPUBLICAN...

I really like the comparison to "private sector" employees. I am so tired of hearing that police, firefighters, paramedics, and even the military are just the same as the clerk working at Walmart. Our job is not the same, our standards are not the same, shamefully, our pay is almost the same!

No offense, but where in socioeconomic circles do you think we fit? Case and point is for you to take a look at Troopers who retire early for medical or other reasons and also the vast majority of vested retired Troopers. Is their next step as a CEO or President of a corporation? Do you see them getting jobs as head administrators in the private sector? Do you even see that many Troopers getting top jobs as corporate security consultants or highway safety managers?

What you see is Troopers moving on to other blue collar jobs that pay roughly the same or lower. You see Troopers taking jobs in construction, line-level security work, computer repair technicians if they've developed that skill aside from the Patrol and other jobs that are in keeping with the same pay level as when they were with us, if they are lucky enough to make about the same. I understand that there brass positions may leave for higher level positions but road troopers and sergeants lack the education, skills and contacts to land higher paying jobs or they would have left after 3-5 years, not 25-30.

The point I am making is that there is nothing wrong with what we do and our pay is probably about right for what we do or the state wouldn't be able to fill our positions. It's all about supply and demand and if FHP can fill the demand for Troopers with the current pay then it must be about right or nobody would apply. If you ran a private business, you would pay your employees just as much as it takes to fill those positions with people who can do the work that is asked of them. If our ranks are pretty much filled and the job is getting done then why should the state pay us more?

My thought is to quit your whining and be happy that we are gainfully employed and not being laid off like so many people in the private sector. With the Obama administration crashing this country to near 10% unemployment and 11.4% of Floridians out of work we should be thankful to the taxpayers for keeping us employed.

Vote for whoever you would like to vote for but our pay is not changing anytime in the next 10-15 years so get used to it or leave and good luck job hunting in this economic climate.

11 Reasons Why The Federal Reserve Is Bad
Millions of Americans are waking up to the fact that the Federal Reserve is bad, but very few of them can coherently explain why this is true. For decades, an unelected, privately-owned central bank has controlled America's currency, run our economy and has driven the U.S. government to the brink of bankruptcy. It operates in great secrecy, it has never been subjected to a comprehensive audit and yet the actions it takes have an impact on every single American. It is an institution designed to drain wealth from the U.S. government (and ultimately from the American people) and transfer it to the ultra-wealthy. Have you ever wondered why a sovereign nation such as the United States has to borrow United States dollars from anyone? Have you ever wondered why a sovereign nation such as the United States does not even issue its own currency? Have you ever wondered why we allow a group of unelected private bankers to run our economy?

Those are some very important questions. Hopefully what you are about to read will open the eyes of many. The truth is that our financial system is centrally-controlled and centrally-managed by a group of banking oligarchs who have constructed an ever-expanding debt spiral which has been efficiently designed to slowly transfer all wealth into their hands.

The following are 11 reasons why the Federal Reserve is not good for the United States....

1 - The Federal Reserve was created as a way to enslave the U.S. government with debt. The truth is that the U.S. government only goes into debt if it chooses to. Theoretically, one day that U.S. government could simply decide to print as many U.S. dollars as it wants and pay off all government debts. But under the current system that is not allowed. You see, today the U.S. government does not issue any money. The Federal Reserve issues all money. That is why they are called "Federal Reserve notes".

Under the current regime, whenever the U.S. government wants more currency to be created it has to go into more debt.

In a previous article entitled "It Is Now Mathematically Impossible To Pay Off The U.S. National Debt" I explained how this insidious system works....

If you will pull a dollar bill out and take a look at it, you will notice that it says "Federal Reserve Note" at the top.

It belongs to the Federal Reserve.

The U.S. government cannot simply go out and create new money whenever it wants under our current system.

Instead, it must get it from the Federal Reserve.

So, when the U.S. government needs to borrow more money (which happens a lot these days) it goes over to the Federal Reserve and asks them for some more green pieces of paper called Federal Reserve Notes.

The Federal Reserve swaps these green pieces of paper for pink pieces of paper called U.S. Treasury bonds. The Federal Reserve either sells these U.S. Treasury bonds or they keep the bonds for themselves (which happens a lot these days).

So that is how the U.S. government gets more green pieces of paper called "U.S. dollars" to put into circulation. But by doing so, they get themselves into even more debt which they will owe even more interest on.

So every time the U.S. government does this, the national debt gets even bigger and the interest on that debt gets even bigger.

Now, apologists for the Federal Reserve system are quick to point out that the Federal Reserve does not make much of a profit. Once a "statutory dividend" of 6% is paid to member banks and a capital account surplus is "maintained", the rest of the profits of the Federal Reserve go back to the U.S. Treasury.

Problem solved, right?

Wrong.

The point is not how much of a profit the Federal Reserve makes or does not make.

The point is that the Federal Reserve is a tool for creating U.S. government debt which slowly drains our national wealth and which ends up greatly enriching the global elite.

As of July 1st, the U.S. government had spent $355 billion so far in 2010 on interest payments to the holders of the national debt.

Have you ever wondered who gets all that money?

The truth is that the wealthiest individuals around the globe have been getting very rich for a very long time off of government debt.

2 - The Federal Reserve creates money out of thin air. In a previous article, I noted how this fact comes out in congressional hearings and yet the American people just don't seem to get too upset about it....

During a recent Joint Economic Committee hearing on Capital Hill, U.S. Representative Ron Paul directly confronted Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke about this 1.3 trillion dollars. As Ron Paul described how this 1.3 trillion was just created out of thin air, all Bernanke could do was nod his head. Why? Because it was the truth.

3- The huge predator megabanks that now dominate the U.S. banking system use the Federal Reserve as a tool to make money. One of the ways they do this is called the U.S. Treasury carry trade. What happens is that the Federal Reserve lends huge amounts of money to the megabanks for next to nothing, and then these megabanks use all that cash to buy U.S. government debt. This little "trick" helped enable four of the biggest U.S. banks (Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup) to have a "perfect quarter" with zero days of trading losses during the first quarter of 2010. Wouldn't you like to have a perfect batting average?

4 - The Federal Reserve devalues our currency. Since the Federal Reserve was created in 1913, the U.S. dollar has lost 96 percent of its purchasing power. The truth is that just a two percent inflation rate will wipe out half of your purchasing power within a single generation. In the chart below, you can clearly see that the beginning of the rapid rise of inflation in the United States coincided with the creation of the Federal Reserve....



5 - The Federal Reserve manipulates the U.S. economy by setting national interest rates. By keeping rates high or low, the Federal Reserve has the power to create economic growth or to destroy it. The have the power to inflate massive bubbles and to pop them. Most Americans give way too much credit and blame to presidents like Bush or Obama for how the economy is doing. The truth is that they really don't have that much control over the economy compared to the Federal Reserve.

6 - The Federal Reserve also controls the national money supply. They can pump trillions into the economy or pull trillions out without being accountable to anyone. This can have disastrous consequences. For example, after the U.S. stock market crash of 1929, the Federal Reserve continued to contract the money supply. Many analysts believe that this was one of the key things that precipitated the Great Depression.

7- The Federal Reserve is not part of the U.S. government. The truth is that the Federal Reserve is about as "federal" as Federal Express is. In defending itself against a Bloomberg request for information under the Freedom of Information Act, the Federal Reserve objected by declaring that it was "not an agency" of the U.S. government and therefore it was not subject to the Freedom of Information Act. It is kind of funny how Fed officials are always talking about how important their "independence" is, but whenever anyone starts criticizing them for being private they start stressing their ties with the government.

8 - The Federal Reserve has become far, far too powerful. The reality is that those running the Federal Reserve are not elected and yet have an enormous amount of control. In fact, Ron Paul recently told MSNBC that he believes that the Federal Reserve is more powerful than Congress.....

"The regulations should be on the Federal Reserve. We should have transparency of the Federal Reserve. They can create trillions of dollars to bail out their friends, and we don’t even have any transparency of this. They’re more powerful than the Congress."

9- The Federal Reserve is dominated by Wall Street and the New York banks. The New York representative is the only permanent member of the Federal Open Market Committee, while other regional banks rotate in 2 and 3 year intervals. The former head of the New York Fed, Timothy Geithner, is now U.S. Treasury Secretary. The truth is that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has always been the most important of the regional Fed banks by far, and in turn the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has always been dominated by Wall Street and the major New York banks.

10- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke wants to completely eliminate minimum reserve requirements for banks. Fractional reserve banking has always been a way that the bankers have conned the public, but now Bernanke wants to get rid of the pretense of "reserves" altogether.

It is almost too bizarre to believe, but it is right there in black and white on the Federal Reserve's own website....

The Federal Reserve believes it is possible that, ultimately, its operating framework will allow the elimination of minimum reserve requirements, which impose costs and distortions on the banking system.

11 - The Federal Reserve is not accountable to anyone. The Federal Reserve has never undergone a true comprehensive audit since it was created back in 1913. Ron Paul’s proposal to audit the Federal Reserve, which had previously been co-sponsored by 320 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, ultimately failed by a vote of 229-198.

But shouldn't the American people be able to see what is going on inside the Federal Reserve?

Shouldn't we have some way to keep them accountable?

After all, they have an incredible amount of power over us, shouldn't we have at least a little bit of power over them?

Unfortunately, the truth is that they desperately do not want light to be shined on the elaborate "shell game" that they are running.

Have you ever wondered if it was just a coincidence that the personal income tax was implemented just about the same time that the Federal Reserve was created?

Why does the U.S. government have to tax us?

Why can't the U.S. government just print up all the money that it needs?

Well, the way that our Congress spends money that would probably create horrific hyperinflation, but that is the subject for another article.

The point is that the U.S. government should not have to get U.S. dollars from someone else.

If you take a few minutes to stop and think about it, an America where there is no Federal Reserve, no personal income tax and no IRS is not that hard to imagine.

If the U.S. government functioned just fine without all of them at one time, then why couldn't the U.S. government function just fine without all of them now?

The system we have now clearly is not working. The Federal Reserve was supposed to guarantee that our financial system would be perfectly stable, but in reality our financial system has become much more unstable.

It is time for different thinking. It is time for the U.S. government to take back control of our currency and of our economy. It is time to start electing some people with common sense to represent us in Washington.

So what do you think of the Federal Reserve? Feel free to leave a comment with your opinion....

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Dont go quietly into that good night.

Sink is little different than Obama. She is making promises that she knows she can't possibly keep in order to get fools to vote for her. It would seem that Americans have not learned anything from the ACTIONS of the Marxist Obama and his tribe of thieves and lying apostles. Next OB will want to make citizens of all illegals to get them to vote for the growing socialists in control of our Nation.

And, NO, I am not a Republican; I'm independent and have no personal dog in this race. When voting, I just reflect on ACTIONS of the candidates and what statements they make that are logical and reasonable.

Sink, Meeks, Christ, and McC are politicians who have no interest in promoting what is "...in the best, long-run interest of the State." Plus, none of the candidates has any ability to change the national economic climate that so strongly will impact Florida's budgeting unless the Marxist philosophy is removed from all of D.C. I'm surprised this guy took his mouth off of Glenn Beck's **** long enough to right thisw shit.

It is time people realize that protected social groups will have to have their "OX GORED" by any honest future leader to prevent the budgetary disasters seen in California, New York, Illinois, and New Jersey from being experienced in Florida.

Active FHP "troopers" are probably underpaid and are entitled to a "step plan." However, our total compensation is not out of line with other "economically comparable" private sector employees -- who pay our salaries. When you take into account the whole job, the starting FHP compensation is reasonable. Remember that we are paid for every minute we work from the minute we go X-8 until X-42, there is no commuting time nor costs, we have a take home car, have an excellent retirement program (probably too good, for current economic conditions), minimum levels of work effort required, and have opportunities to earn higher wages with 208 and PROMOTIONS. The only things lacking are outstanding management, unbiased promotions, a step plan, and members who learn to live within their incomes or engage in activity to promote to higher levels of productivity and compensation.

Let's face it, if being a FHP trooper were really so bad, no one would apply that meets minimum qualifications; and, we'd all be at those better paying positions---yea, right there are so many of those spots available for our peoples' resumes.

Sink is just playing the State Employee card to get us to vote for her. The Republicans will not play to us they will play to the tax payer and call for cuts in numbers. No matter what smoke she blows be assured that we are in for hard times this next budget year. There is already a projected 6.5 billion dollar short fall in next years budget, The State is not allowed to run a budget deficit so there will be cuts. Keep in mind that the budget this year had to be reduced by 3.5 billion, they are going to have to cut 6.5 billion on top of that next year. Think of everything that they went after this year, double that next year and plan to loose some things, almost for sure across the board pay-cuts.

No doom and gloom, just reality.

Sink is little different than Obama. She is making promises that she knows she can't possibly keep in order to get fools to vote for her. It would seem that Americans have not learned anything from the ACTIONS of the Marxist Obama and his tribe of thieves and lying apostles. Next OB will want to make citizens of all illegals to get them to vote for the growing socialists in control of our Nation.

And, NO, I am not a Republican; I'm independent and have no personal dog in this race. When voting, I just reflect on ACTIONS of the candidates and what statements they make that are logical and reasonable.

Sink, Meeks, Christ, and McC are politicians who have no interest in promoting what is "...in the best, long-run interest of the State." Plus, none of the candidates has any ability to change the national economic climate that so strongly will impact Florida's budgeting unless the Marxist philosophy is removed from all of D.C. I'm surprised this guy took his mouth off of Glenn Beck's **** long enough to right thisw shizzat.

It is time people realize that protected social groups will have to have their "OX GORED" by any honest future leader to prevent the budgetary disasters seen in California, New York, Illinois, and New Jersey from being experienced in Florida.

Active FHP "troopers" are probably underpaid and are entitled to a "step plan." However, our total compensation is not out of line with other "economically comparable" private sector employees -- who pay our salaries. When you take into account the whole job, the starting FHP compensation is reasonable. Remember that we are paid for every minute we work from the minute we go X-8 until X-42, there is no commuting time nor costs, we have a take home car, have an excellent retirement program (probably too good, for current economic conditions), minimum levels of work effort required, and have opportunities to earn higher wages with 208 and PROMOTIONS. The only things lacking are outstanding management, unbiased promotions, a step plan, and members who learn to live within their incomes or engage in activity to promote to higher levels of productivity and compensation.

Let's face it, if being a FHP trooper were really so bad, no one would apply that meets minimum qualifications; and, we'd all be at those better paying positions---yea, right there are so many of those spots available for our peoples' resumes.

Define "Ecomonically Comparable Private Sector Employee". How can you compare a law enforcement job with the private sector? I'm not being sarcastic. Actually most of your post was an interesting take on our job.

Sink is little different than Obama. She is making promises that she knows she can't possibly keep in order to get fools to vote for her. It would seem that Americans have not learned anything from the ACTIONS of the Marxist Obama and his tribe of thieves and lying apostles. Next OB will want to make citizens of all illegals to get them to vote for the growing socialists in control of our Nation.

And, NO, I am not a Republican; I'm independent and have no personal dog in this race. When voting, I just reflect on ACTIONS of the candidates and what statements they make that are logical and reasonable.

Sink, Meeks, Christ, and McC are politicians who have no interest in promoting what is "...in the best, long-run interest of the State." Plus, none of the candidates has any ability to change the national economic climate that so strongly will impact Florida's budgeting unless the Marxist philosophy is removed from all of D.C. I'm surprised this guy took his mouth off of Glenn Beck's **** long enough to right thisw shizzat.

It is time people realize that protected social groups will have to have their "OX GORED" by any honest future leader to prevent the budgetary disasters seen in California, New York, Illinois, and New Jersey from being experienced in Florida.

Active FHP "troopers" are probably underpaid and are entitled to a "step plan." However, our total compensation is not out of line with other "economically comparable" private sector employees -- who pay our salaries. When you take into account the whole job, the starting FHP compensation is reasonable. Remember that we are paid for every minute we work from the minute we go X-8 until X-42, there is no commuting time nor costs, we have a take home car, have an excellent retirement program (probably too good, for current economic conditions), minimum levels of work effort required, and have opportunities to earn higher wages with 208 and PROMOTIONS. The only things lacking are outstanding management, unbiased promotions, a step plan, and members who learn to live within their incomes or engage in activity to promote to higher levels of productivity and compensation.

Let's face it, if being a FHP trooper were really so bad, no one would apply that meets minimum qualifications; and, we'd all be at those better paying positions---yea, right there are so many of those spots available for our peoples' resumes.

Define "Economically Comparable Private Sector Employee". How can you compare a law enforcement job with the private sector? I'm not being sarcastic. Actually most of your post was an interesting take on our job.

OK. There are entire graduate level courses that explain how to compare jobs by "factor analysis" and other concepts. But, first, an overall observation. In a recent study reported by the U.S. Department of Labor (under Omarxist), government (public sector) jobs pay about 40-30% more in total compensation(wages and fringe benefits-- paid holidays, paid vacation, present value of pensions, etc.) than comparable private sector jobs. For example a local truck driver for the the government in Tally will make about 30% more in total compensation than what a private sector contractor pays to drive the same truck, on the same days, doing the same activities, etc.

To answer your specific question regarding FHP Troopers and "comparable private sector jobs," that is an economic concept that means..............when all factors related to employment acquisition, training, and continuing growth to keep the job are taken into account -- the jobs are equal/comparable. Again, for example, given the compensation of a trooper which is currently a base pay plus fringe benefits that total about $50,000, the comp is about $50,000 per year. The $50,000 is paid to get the needed number of workers for all of the "bad --economists call these 'dis-utilities'---things" associated with the job. For a trooper, these dis-utilities include some of the following: required shift work, working in inclement weather, risk of being killed or injured on the job, lack of a step plan, being subject to change in shift with only a few days notice, using a computer while driving, driving a car all day, etc.

A comparable private sector job would be one that had an equal amount of "dis-utils" (unhappiness) and earns the same pay. For example: being employed as a miner who averages $50,000 per year in compensation working in a coal mine with cold,damp, dark, working conditions; risks being injured or killed in the mine due to methane build-up; being dirty all day; acquiring black lung disease by age 50 and being disabled due to not breathing; AND a BIG DIS-UTILITY having little job security due to lay-offs, etc.

I know you want to see an analysis of a a LEO in the private sector verses public sector LEO for a more exact "comparable" job. But the above more dramatic comparisons should help you. A LEO job is comparable to a private sector job; when it is done based upon "dis-utility" associated with the position and includes minimum education levels to be qualified for the job. Other "bad" factors used to compare jobs include: required education to get the job, relocating at the option of the firm, long unpaid commuting times, required non-reimbursed clothes (suits and ties), cost of living in a specific area needed to keep the job, un-reimbursed personal expenses, NO OT PAY for OT, mandatory continueing formal education (MBA to keep your job), employment at will contracts (true in all private sector jobs) with no rights of appeals to being fired, and believe it or not, pride of job title!.

Sorry this went on so long, but economics explains -- well, seemingly unexplainable enigmas. Everything is life is economics. Hope this helps you; although I know announcing a step plan becoming effective on September 1, 2010 would be more satisfying to you!!! :shock: :shock:

In reality, economically, troopers' jobs are comparable to other private sector jobs. Given that they are comparable, the "comparable" starting compensation is NOT BAD; a step plan is needed. On the other side, being able to go X-8 and 42 from your house and earn pay from the first minute, is a nice "utility" (satisfaction) associated with the job! And, we get to carry a gun and badge off duty without having to pay for the CWP! Wow!

Hope that was of some help. :wink: :wink:

...You That Vote For A. Sink
Will Regret It ..Like The Idiots
That Voted For Obama..Dont
Look In The Mirror Four Years
From Now And Realize What
An Idiot A-Hole You Are..
Hear Me Now Believe Me Later..
McCullom Will keep Things
Going Smoothly...

...You That Vote For A. Sink
Will Regret It ..Like The Idiots
That Voted For Obama..Dont
Look In The Mirror Four Years
From Now And Realize What
An Idiot A-Hole You Are..
Hear Me Now Believe Me Later..
McCullom Will keep Things
Going Smoothly...

Candidates
Sorry folks, but Mr. Green says, that anyway you look at it SLEO's are screwed. However, do you want to be F- by someone you know or by the sleazy, underhanded person you don't know.

As far as Alex Sink, the boys and girls at DFS really hates to have to share office supplies, fuel and vehicles, just to save a few 100 grand, that in even a 50 billion budget means nothing.

None of that so call Candidates have said not one positive word about state employees, our pay and that our SLEO's deserve better than what we have. I have seen and heard on his campaign how Scott wants to cut 23 billion dollars from the budget, through his veto power, and how he wants to reduce the work force by 5%. Understand, there are NOT enough empty vacancies at total 5% of the workforce, about 4% will come from filled positions.

Do the math, 5% from each Agency, for FHP that is about 80 filled positions to our already 200 deleted positions.

Bill is about the only person who has not said that they will Kill the state employee and the SLEO.

Sorry for the bad news.

:mrgreen: :cop: :(

She has Insurance Fraud and the State Fire Marshal's Office under her now and what did she do for them?

The bottom line is there is very little the governor can do for us. We are at the mercy of the legislature. The fact that we happened to fare well under Graham and Martinez was just a matter of circumstance.

The bottom line is there is very little the governor can do for us. We are at the mercy of the legislature. The fact that we happened to fare well under Graham and Martinez was just a matter of circumstance.


This is very true, but whether you like him or hate him, Christ did not give us a raise, but he at least prevented the sorry ass legistatures reducing our pay, benifits and retirement, I will give him that.

That is the very least a good Governor can do for the SLEO and state workers.

These other idiots looks at the top pay of the admin people, who should be paid more, and thinks that we all get paid that. That coupled with the news reporting how the other cities and counties are paying 45000 to 55000 starting, and the legistators thinks that is what we get paid as well. They have no clue and do not bother to do the research to make a informed decision. So sad................ :(

:mrgreen: :cop:

The bottom line is there is very little the governor can do for us. We are at the mercy of the legislature. The fact that we happened to fare well under Graham and Martinez was just a matter of circumstance.


This is very true, but whether you like him or hate him, Christ did not give us a raise, but he at least prevented the sorry ass legistatures reducing our pay, benifits and retirement, I will give him that.

That is the very least a good Governor can do for the SLEO and state workers.

These other idiots looks at the top pay of the admin people, who should be paid more, and thinks that we all get paid that. That coupled with the news reporting how the other cities and counties are paying 45000 to 55000 starting, and the legistators thinks that is what we get paid as well. They have no clue and do not bother to do the research to make a informed decision. So sad................ :(

:mrgreen: :cop:


agree

Either way, four more years of bad news on the horizon for FHP. :|