Watch the government piss away [1] your money! On the Web! [2]
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So .. what are you – my out of state virtual friends – being asked to pay for in my fair state of Wisconsin? Welp, I’m glad you asked!
- $500,000 to eliminate bus fares for one year in Sheboygan.
- $2,000,000 for new sidewalks in Superior.
- $3,800,000 for a recreational trail in Green Bay.
Anyway – this is what my state wants from the stimulus pork: Subsidized bus fares, sidewalks and walking trails.
We thank you kindly for your participation.
[1] Sort-of Stimulus Watch. Anyway, it’s Transparent Government. Whatever that means.
[2] This would work, I think, if the people spending taxpayer money had a sense of shame. Which we can see that they don’t. [3] It’s not enough to to simply watch the bastards at work, we gotta raise a ruckus, get people involved.
For Pete’s sake, last year I had to take the day off and cart my family down to Madison just to make sure the Lege didn’t enact a bill that would have shut the school down.
You can do this once, or twice. But you can’t get all excited about every bit of pork the government wants. There are more of us than there are of them but for them it’s a full-time job. We’re busy making a living and can’t afford the time needed.
[3] No, seriously – we’ve got candidates for the highest office in the land who are not ashamed at lying, but only chagrined they’ve been caught. People who want cabinet positions who (whoops) forget to pay taxes. Congress critters who pay back taxes only when people raise a shit storm .. and don’t have to pay any penalties. Who, not to drag on and on, feel that because they’re on the People’s Business they can act like immoral shits.
Cross posted to Space For Commerce.