Start putting animals down then. It would be better to take really good care of 200 dogs than mediocre care of 300, and the 100s on the streets are ignored.

Exactly. Don't like your job? Don't think you are getting paid enough? Submit a resignation and go get a different job. Holding the company hostage is extortion.

This. 1000x this. How can you encourage performance, when the reward for performance is guaranteed?

Why isn't this pilot in jail yet? Can someone please explain?

Because that is how you reign in spending, you hire more workers to not work. You clearly don't understand the PLP school of country-running.

This is great and all, but how exactly do you balance a budget by decreasing income and increasing expenses?

Ahh, blood oil. My favorite kind of oil.

Was duty and VAT paid on that bus?

Crazy idea, but how about they spend less fucking money? Do we really need to be pouring millions of dollars in to an embassy residence in DC? Sell it and rent an apt. Were the $30,000 sofas really needed for the London Embassy residence? Do we really need to keep bailing out Bahamasair? BOB? Etc etc?

I'm terribly confused. How does selling a product for more money result in less profits (or apparent losses?)

And the bigger picture question, is why does a gas station need so many employees? Everywhere else I go in the world there is a single person (at best) inside the gas station. Drive up, insert card, pump gas, leave. Why does every station have an employee per pump, plus one or two people inside taking payments? It isn't 1964 anymore.