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Old 09-22-2011, 03:34 PM
 
Location: Near a river
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"In recent years the U.S. government has spent $2.6 million tax dollars to study the drinking habits of Chinese prostitutes and $400,000 tax dollars to pay researchers to cruise six bars in Buenos Aires, Argentina to find out why gay men engage in risky sexual behavior when drunk."

$2.6 Million Spent To Train Chinese Prostitutes To Drink Responsibly

The list goes on and on, no doubt.

Now let's cut Medicare for grandma and grandpa, as we're really out of money.
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Old 09-22-2011, 03:42 PM
 
Location: Where the sun likes to shine!!
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The way our government spends makes me want to throw up or kill them all for their stupidity.
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Old 09-22-2011, 03:45 PM
 
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The way our government spends makes me want to throw up or kill them all for their stupidity.
It is not stupidity most likely. It is all politics, and there is always some gain for someone in each of these seemingly stupid moves.
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Old 09-22-2011, 04:04 PM
 
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It is not stupidity most likely. It is all politics, and there is always some gain for someone in each of these seemingly stupid moves.

True..there is always someone at the back door making money.
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Old 09-22-2011, 04:04 PM
 
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Waste is part of governement. It's built into everything they do. Many parts of the economy depends on that waste factor for them to make money. If you eliminate the waste, you are really talking baout eliminating good american jobs and reducing the income that comes into the US economy. Cutting medicare does not in anyway equal having to say your eliminating american jobs. Cutting Medicare could also result in faster death rates of seniors which equals less benefits to pay out which equals less governement expenses. To a whole group of people, that's the best scenerio. truth is, waste has become so much part of governement that its now a program that politicians fight to preserve, even if that means a sad life for grams.
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Old 09-22-2011, 04:09 PM
 
Location: Near a river
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Waste is part of governement. It's built into everything they do. Many parts of the economy depends on that waste factor for them to make money. If you eliminate the waste, you are really talking baout eliminating good american jobs and reducing the income that comes into the US economy. Cutting medicare does not in anyway equal having to say your eliminating american jobs. Cutting Medicare could also result in faster death rates of seniors which equals less benefits to pay out which equals less governement expenses....and thus less jobs. To a whole group of people, that's the best scenerio. truth is, waste has become so much part of governement that its now a program that politicians fight to preserve, even if that means a sad life for grams.
red, above
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Old 09-22-2011, 06:00 PM
 
Location: The Triad
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Cutting medicare does not in anyway equal having to say your eliminating american jobs. Cutting Medicare could also result in faster death rates of seniors which equals less benefits to pay out which equals less governement expenses.
Because no one wants to make (or accept) the tougher call of focusing those clearly needed cuts
on specifics within the broad rubric "standards of care"... we'll end up with far broader cuts across the board.

The net end result will probably be worse that way.
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Old 09-22-2011, 06:07 PM
 
Location: Sierra Vista, AZ
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"In recent years the U.S. government has spent $2.6 million tax dollars to study the drinking habits of Chinese prostitutes and $400,000 tax dollars to pay researchers to cruise six bars in Buenos Aires, Argentina to find out why gay men engage in risky sexual behavior when drunk."

$2.6 Million Spent To Train Chinese Prostitutes To Drink Responsibly

The list goes on and on, no doubt.

Now let's cut Medicare for grandma and grandpa, as we're really out of money.
"In recent years" = 2007
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Old 09-23-2011, 06:41 AM
 
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Let me restate the original poster's comment. The government has been known to spend tiny amounts of money on the scale of the federal budget on things that can be made to sound silly. That's not a basis for...drawing any conclusions at all, about government or public policy, or even about the merits of the particular tiny program at issue.
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Old 09-23-2011, 07:31 AM
 
Location: State of Being
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Let me restate the original poster's comment. The government has been known to spend tiny amounts of money on the scale of the federal budget on things that can be made to sound silly. That's not a basis for...drawing any conclusions at all, about government or public policy, or even about the merits of the particular tiny program at issue.
Oh really? It isn't the basis for calling into account the ridiculous programs that have created not only generational poverty but also a "gimme" entitlement attitude amongst those who have figured out how to game "the system?"

Bureaucracies are wasteful. Period. That is a known fact.
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