On the news just now, they broke down the money California is supposedly going to have to shell out for Bush's request for money to handle Iraq this year.
They pointed out things that money could be used for. I'll skip the whole list and get to the last one: Take every homeless person in all of California off the streets, send them to Berkeley for 4 years, and give them a new car. They said "These are just some of the missed opportunities."
Pardon me, but what the fuck are they talking about? You want to GIVE a better life to some drunk on the street? It's an opportunity to take someone who has failed to succeed and give them all new resources to fail with, I guess.
The whole notion of trying to compare the volume of money Bush wants for dealing with Iraq with a big pile of cash that somebody is going to walk about and hand out is just crazy. We could "give" that money to ANY social services and it would get eaten alive by beaurocracy before any of the people it's supposed to help would touch it. Remember what happened to the bags of grain we sent to Somalia? Yeah, it never got to the hungry.
Meanwhile, I wish the news would decide what it wants. They start out by saying that Iraq is an expensive quagmire and we still haven't found Osama or the weapons of mass destruciton (I'm amazed they forgot about Saddam) - and then have this piece explaining how we shouldn't spend any more money on that, but insted should... hand it out to the homeless?
Do they have any idea what would happen if we pulled out of Iraq? Or if we fail to maintain security there?
Oh, and before some genius starts talking about handing it over to the UN - do some google searches about the Bosnian-Serbian war, or Somalia, or any other place the UN peacekeepers stood by and watched genocide occur. Do you really think blue-hats are going to fire on the influx of wannabe Saddams that would pour into Iraq to fill the vacuum of us leaving?
Bah. The "news" is fucking retarded.
Posted by Matt at September 8, 2003 10:27 PMI considered just banning this commenter, but I am pretty sure I know who it is and as such know that their politics have always been less thought out and largely insignificant anyway.
Following GIGO:
*blah blah* comparing apples and oranges *blah blah* read about founding fathers *blah blah* any opinion is better than none *blah blah* etc.
Political commentary from someone who is passed out drunk in his previous post. Mr. President?
Posted by: Nobody at September 10, 2003 02:56 PM