Last Year's Government Waste Handbook

[nathanm]

It's at the Bush ranch in Crawford.

Can you please ask for it back rather than bitching about a couple of million worth of government expenditures?

[Gaspar]

Can you please ask for it back rather than bitching about a couple of million worth of government expenditures?

Sure, if you will stop living in the Bush years and making that a comparable excuse for everything happening today.

Just because one administration made crappy incompetent decisions does not make it right or okay for the current or the next administration.


Not a good policy.

[heironymouspasparagus]

Sure, if you will stop living in the Bush years and making that a comparable excuse for everything happening today.

Just because one administration made crappy incompetent decisions does not make it right or okay for the current or the next administration.


Not a good policy.

I'll quit going on about the many trillions spent for waste and corruption - not to mention the over 4,000 wasted precious lives of our kids - as soon as the RWRE stops whining about the few million spent on BS here and there....

Given a choice between spending a couple hundred thousand on quail versus $1.5 trillion to kill some clown in the desert just because he embarrassed daddy...gee, where is the question there?

[Hoss]

I'll quit going on about the many trillions spent for waste and corruption - not to mention the over 4,000 wasted precious lives of our kids - as soon as the RWRE stops whining about the few million spent on BS here and there....

Given a choice between spending a couple hundred thousand on quail versus $1.5 trillion to kill some clown in the desert just because he embarrassed daddy...gee, where is the question there?

but....but.....he was linked to Al Qaeda...or something.

[Conan71]

I'll quit going on about the many trillions spent for waste and corruption - not to mention the over 4,000 wasted precious lives of our kids - as soon as the RWRE stops whining about the few million spent on BS here and there....

Given a choice between spending a couple hundred thousand on quail versus $1.5 trillion to kill some clown in the desert just because he embarrassed daddy...gee, where is the question there?

You need a Looney Toons character for an avatar.  Some of your posts are like watching a cartoon.

Iraq war= complete waste of time and resources, we get it.  Move on, pull the arrow out, Heir.

[heironymouspasparagus]

You need a Looney Toons character for an avatar.  Some of your posts are like watching a cartoon.

Iraq war= complete waste of time and resources, we get it.  Move on, pull the arrow out, Heir.

Absurdity is the only answer to absurdity.  Coburn has his little booklet of all the wasted money - and it is held up here as being something actually significant - that mostly should not have been spent.  But even as much as I like Coburn, I didn't hear him saying much about the massive splurge that we indulged in for the last decade.

None of these little things mean anything WHEN compared to the big stuff.  Is the fascination with rock bands bringing down the Soviet Union so great because it is of a scale that we can get our minds around?  And the big thing is just so vast and wide ranging that it is incomprehensible and the facts that accompany it are so bad that we can't countenance the idea that we, the "good guys", would do something so bad?

And so much more than just wasted time and resources.
Don't think I have even mentioned the thousands of tons of depleted uranium we have splattered all over the mid-east in the last decade or so!  How do you feel about that compared to something deadly in an instantaneous moment, but fleeting like maybe chemical weapons?  We literally have sown the seeds of destruction and carnage for generations.  In your opinion, is that something the "good guy" would do?