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Post by Chris on Jun 23, 2004 14:09:21 GMT -5
I am just getting kind of fed up. We as tax payers should have more control over how our money is spent. In the US and just about any other country there are Senators or goveners or whatevers that have pet projects. How can they just waste so meny tax dollars? Any country that is in debt you never see their President saying. "I'll take a pay cut to save us money." Why can't we cut congress's wages? In general they bicker and complain all day anyways. I just want to see a Administration that knows when to lossen or tighten the purse strings.
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Post by Buddy on Jun 23, 2004 14:38:27 GMT -5
From what I've seen, Congress spends a great deal of times creating holidays.
I've seen newsprograms showing Congress debating over whether or not to make "such-and-such" day "Apple Day" or "Rose Day". Seriously, why do we need a day to celeprate roses?!
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Post by Chris on Jun 23, 2004 16:00:14 GMT -5
((i think they just want a day off but Nyeh...))
They need to something now don't they?
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Post by KittyKadaveral on Jun 23, 2004 16:49:07 GMT -5
Yes, I will agree on that. I think it's terrible that our goverment can toss money here and there for insane things while our elderly can't get proper care, schools are closing all over the place and if you're sick you really have to pay out the nose just to get treated and/or buy pills. What I don't understand is why the United States has to worry so much about funding other countries either when we have tons of our own homeless and starving here? I think it's great to 'share the wealth' but doesn't charity begin at home? I know that defence of the country is important, but I don't get why the soldiers aren't paid as much as they should be and why it's so important that we get a space station up that's not even being worked on. I'm all for the space stuff actually, but that and the trip to Mars, well...I think they could have done better things with that money. As for Apple Day and Rose Day...sounds like they've been hanging around Neopets a bit too long  I wonder if they're going to come out with books, avatars and new foods for those days then  lol |
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Post by Chris on Jun 23, 2004 16:52:24 GMT -5
I totally agree. Sometimes I wonder if congress has ever seen the true america.
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Post by Tdyans on Jun 23, 2004 20:10:51 GMT -5
((i think they just want a day off but Nyeh...)) Nearly every day of the year now has some "holiday" attached to it-- that doesn't mean they're all national holidays that government workers get to take off. I'd be more inclined to believe that someone's getting money from FTD under the table-- hence "Rose Day" and other artificial excuses to buy more flowers. |
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Post by Buddy on Jun 23, 2004 20:16:42 GMT -5
Nearly every day of the year now has some "holiday" attached to it-- that doesn't mean they're all national holidays that government workers get to take off. I'd be more inclined to believe that someone's getting money from FTD under the table-- hence "Rose Day" and other artificial excuses to buy more flowers. It has to do with support. Lets say the Rose Growers of America (I just made that up) want a day for roses! Well, they just have to tell certain senators "Hey, if you don't make a day for us and our roses, we're gonna tell out 10,000 members not to support you next election!" Well, what's creating a special holiday that no one's gonna know or care about in exchange for 10,000 votes?... |
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Post by Tdyans on Jun 23, 2004 20:49:11 GMT -5
It has to do with support. Lets say the Rose Growers of America (I just made that up) want a day for roses! Well, they just have to tell certain senators "Hey, if you don't make a day for us and our roses, we're gonna tell out 10,000 members not to support you next election!" Well, what's creating a special holiday that no one's gonna know or care about in exchange for 10,000 votes?... I know-- the money under the table thing was a joke. But it's essentially the same thing when you get down to it, isn't it? Ah well, sounds like a nice cushy job to aspire to. Appease the rose growers so you can spend six more years appeasing rose growers! |
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Post by Buddy on Jun 23, 2004 20:59:28 GMT -5
I know-- the money under the table thing was a joke. But it's essentially the same thing when you get down to it, isn't it? Ah well, sounds like a nice cushy job to aspire to. Appease the rose growers so you can spend six more years appeasing rose growers! We're a country secretly being run by rose growers... man! This is some Tom Clancy/Steven King stuff!  |
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Post by Tdyans on Jun 23, 2004 21:02:21 GMT -5
We're a country secretly being run by rose growers... man! This is some Tom Clancy/Steven King stuff! Someone SO needs to write that-- a spoof conspiracy theory book about the evil rose grower consortium that's pulling all the strings. I'm sure a clever person could find some way to implicate them in every important event in the history of our country.... |
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Post by Buddy on Jun 23, 2004 21:07:22 GMT -5
Someone SO needs to write that-- a spoof conspiracy theory book about the evil rose grower consortium that's pulling all the strings. I'm sure a clever person could find some way to implicate them in every important event in the history of our country.... *nudges Tdyans* I won't claim royalties... |
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Post by Chris on Jun 23, 2004 21:50:07 GMT -5
I wonder what publisher would print that...
But special interest money is one of the worst things to ever come to a Democratic country.
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Post by Oily on Jun 25, 2004 16:20:41 GMT -5
You should have seen the Millennium Dome. It's basically a big tent, and it was meant to be a huge attraction. It was too small, too crowded and boring. It's costing a pheonomal amount of money to keep closed and empty - hundreds of millions of pounds have been poured into it, for nothing. Members of Parliament get huge allowances for "expenses" etc. It's really stupid.
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Post by Buddy on Jun 25, 2004 16:25:29 GMT -5
You should have seen the Millennium Dome. It's basically a big tent, and it was meant to be a huge attraction. It was too small, too crowded and boring. It's costing a pheonomal amount of money to keep closed and empty - hundreds of millions of pounds have been poured into it, for nothing. Members of Parliament get huge allowances for "expenses" etc. It's really stupid. What is it? Like, a stadium? I thought it was like a convention center or something... |
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Post by Oily on Jun 26, 2004 14:35:33 GMT -5
What is it? Like, a stadium? I thought it was like a convention center or something... It's like a giant tent. It used to hold exhibits - like "Body" and "Faith." Faith was like a maze with pictures on the walls. Body were two statues of people that you could go inside - it had a beating heart and some talking heads. There was also a room full of swirling colours and total silence, and a central arena for acrobats. It was quite cramped and very random and the exhibits were only there for a year or so. They've only just got to the contracts for private businesses to take over it, 3 years later. We had to park ages away, wait half an hour for a minibus, do a fifteen minute minibus ride to end up in a totally empty car park just outside the Dome. And once inside, you couldn't move. It had plans to be used as stadiums and convention centres etc but I'm not sure where those led. |
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I wonder if they're going to come out with books, avatars and new foods for those days then 
lol
