WE HAVE 156,000 structurally deficient bridges, crumbling water pipes, antiquated power grid, urban decay,?
WHY?
Government WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THESE THINGS with ALL the taxes WE HAVE ALREADY PAID…
Property tax, income tax, tax on food, gas, cable, death and so on…
What did the government do with the MONEY they have received from us?
NOW WE ARE SUPPOSED TO SUPPORT A PROGRAM WITH FUTURE TAX DOLLARS TO DO WHAT GOVERNMENT SHOULD HAVE DONE IN THE FIRST PLACE?
*** What did the government do with the
*** MONEY they have received from us?
The money was stolen and the theft continues and escalates, especially since 01/20.
What is left is wasted semi-legitimately: welfare checks, unionized teachers, salaries of cohorts of incompetent bureaucrats.
They blew it on blow and hookers while flying in their private jets.
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We went to war with Iraq. That’s what they did with it.
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Great. Now they can replace them all with public works like they did in the New Deal to build them.
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basically yes.
We have wasted it on one boondoggle after another.
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STATE government is responsible for these things. Some states would rather spend their money on other things. Like Louisiana spent the money given for their restructuring their dikes went to building casinos. Michigan used their bridge money to build a stadium and then the bridge collapsed.
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*** What did the government do with the
*** MONEY they have received from us?
The money was stolen and the theft continues and escalates, especially since 01/20.
What is left is wasted semi-legitimately: welfare checks, unionized teachers, salaries of cohorts of incompetent bureaucrats.
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"We went to war with Iraq"?!!! yes…all of the bridges have begun decaying in the last 7 years.
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Excellent point. Govt. has proven to be fiscally irresponsible. Obama had the audacity to warn the mayors they’d better not overspend??
LOLOLOLOL
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I agree. They say they need more money for infrastucture. We are already paying for it.
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They used affirmative action to promote blacks to positions they were not qualified to run. This is why you can’t drink tap water in D.C. The Washington Suburban Sanitation Commission is run by the most incompetent black people on the face of the earth. That is why the infrastructure is crumbling.
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War. And other situations that went against the interest of country and people.
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They gave it all to lazy deadbeats.
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That is exactly what I wrote to my senators and to Obama. IF they would stop all the waste and stealing from the coffers there would NOT be a problem. We are talking millions here! The postal service will be raising rates in May, and it was just reported that the head of the service has been paid 100’s of thousand of dollars! WHY? This is just one little example in a multitude of situations. Medicare, disability and food stamp fraud, millions lost every year! The county puts a freeze on hiring, lets go non-essential employees and begs the officials to raise taxes. Then they turn around and buy a whole fleet of new dump trucks and equipment! What the h#@@ is going on?
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You ask what the government did with the money. They paid the interest on all the money they had borrowed before. And, they kept on borrowing. They borrowed for the war in Iraq, and they borrowed for the first stimulus package and they borrowed for this last one.
If the government demanded taxes for everything that they inefficiently do for us, we would ALL be taxed at a 99% rate. Our priorities are all screwed up. We want to much…and it always has to be now…so the things that don’t show…like infrastructure…get left by the wayside.
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When LBJ started the general fund everything went to hell. Ever wonder what ever happened to all the cigarette money from the big law suit
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I was under the assumption that Jesus was returning so we shouldn’t worry about these things.
This is kind of a good question though.
Maybe we’re to worried about Al-Qaeda to think about the things that really are important and stand a better chance of disrupting our lives.
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We haven’t made serious investments in infrastructure in a few decades…that’s why
Brianne: WHERE do you get this stuff? Many of these things are FEDERALLY FUNDED whether fully or in part. States rely on the feds to help with highways, levees, bridges, etc. The feds haven’t been kicking money for these things.
Honeybee: Most of the money from the cigarette company penalties went to STATES.
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Great question.
We have not been represented for decades. Tax, tax and tax is all we have gotten. But the governments can find money to restore old building that should be torn down. They can find money to remodel their offices and buy new cop cars every year. But they just won’t fill a pothole with something that will stick. They continue to grow assistance programs, but won’t help a person get a micro loan to open a small business, despite having a small business administration. Our system of government is corrupt and needs remodeling.
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Good Question.
Here in Missouri, our gas tax use to go into the general fund. The politicians then spent it on any thing they wanted. We had to pass a law, brought before the voters, to get that money straight to MODOT, where it belongs. If you give money to politicians, it is guaranteed that they will spend, and not on what is truly needed.
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
– P.J O’Rourke, Civil Libertarian
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