The Bullshit of our time

[camerono]

I would like to direct your attention to this article.

Inside you will find comments on how the U.S. Conference of Mayors has put forth an infrastructure spending plan as part of an economic stimulus. The article highlights a couple of "outrageous" (not their words, but that's the implication and purpose of the article) public works programs for

Comments

[magichatmalarky]

Well technically Rhode Island gets the polar bear, not us. Buddy Cianci would be pissed he missed out on bringing such a majestic creature to town. Also, I think somehow getting a polar bear out of money designated to re-build the country's already failing infrastructure should be commended. Plus Rhode Island certainly doesn't need any help with their infrastructure: http://www.asce.org/reportcard/2005/page.cfm?id=79 (From 2005, but still interesting)

On a serious note, I do think it is somewhat of a waste of money, albeit a ridiculously minute one. As much as I love them, we should leave the damn polar bears alone and stop bringing them into our tiny ass zoos so people can smile at them and kids can make ridiculously large pans of glass dirty.

[camerono]

That ties back into how neither of us like zoos, but it's a different point

[magichatmalarky]

Not to go all John McCain on you, but the multiple private planes, the multiple lavish parties, and the polar bear exhibits are all just the same kind of waste to me. They are all wasteful expenditures which while small individually add up to plenty of money being spent in areas where it isn't needed

[camerono]

The point is that it literally doesn't matter. Waste is a part of everything. Literally, if we are worried about .0000655% of anything, we're just not concerned with the big picture. Government waste, the specific kind that John McCain talked about during his campaign, accounts for a literally insignificant amount of expense