Post-election-day bullspunk

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You know, I don't expect everyone to be happy about the results, but I do expect people to buckle down and cope.

Waaah, the Republicans are in power. Waaaah! It's a conspiracy! Waaaaaaaaaaah! Waaaaah, I should move to Canada!

Yes, yes you should. Please move to Canada. Move there and spare me your noise.

Comments

[spoothbrush.livejournal.com]

Do politicians not know how to do math, or is it that they've decided that the voters can't?

One of the thing that annoys me most while reading, say, vote-smart.org or anything like that, is to read candidates' positions who talk about increasing funding to programs x, y, and z, but neither about a) raising taxes or raising taxes enough to make up for the spending or b) cutting funding to other programs. The same thing when they're talking live. Hi, not a big fan of debt over here.

Stupid stupid stupid!

[yakko.livejournal.com]

How about not funding pet program X, special-interest program that only benefits 20 people Y, and just plain wasteful program Z? I'd rather they try trimming a bit of fat before hitting the populace up for tax money.

I'm not fundamentally opposed to tax increases, much less to increases which fund something that's necessary, but there're a lot of things that are not necessary.

[spoothbrush.livejournal.com]

"Necessary" is a fairly subjective term, though. I mean, is an alternative energy plant that'll only provide a half-dozen jobs worth spending 1 or 2 million dollars on? Is it worth spending $12,000 a year of taxpayer money on a stipend for a psycholinguistics graduate student? (I think so, but I'm biased).