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Brain -> 4 Fantastically Stupid Projects Pushed By Republicans Aiming to Please Their Corporate Masters (5/26/2011 12:39:16 AM)
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What is it with these Republican governors that they engage in these unnecessary wasteful boondoggles? And at the same time they neglect the legitimate needs of people that need help. How/why do they get elected? It’s ridiculous. How can people vote for these jerks.
4 Fantastically Stupid Projects Pushed By Republicans Aiming to Please Their Corporate Masters
The narrative that there isn’t enough money isn’t true. In state after state, legislatures are able to find hundreds of millions of dollars to spend on the whims of the rich.
1. Kentucky’s $43 million Bible theme Park
2. Texas’s tax break for yacht owners
3. Gov. Christie’s Money Pit
4. Public funding of union-busting corporations
South Carolina’s unemployment rate remains above the national average in a state with some of the country’s least generous jobless benefits. Meanwhile, thousands of residents are currently protesting officials’ plans to cut $700 million from the state’s Medicaid and education programs.
In state after state, legislatures are able to find hundreds of millions of dollars for the pet projects of yacht-owners, and for the every whim and desire of their corporate masters. The truth is that America’s vast resources aren’t being spent in an efficient manner. Officials throw money at big, glamorous-sounding Xanadu fantasies, or to bible-thumping constituents and strong-arming corporate cronies who make unfounded claims of trickle-down prosperity. Politicians do this in order to build monuments for their own legacies in a pathetic effort to obtain immortality, or to buy off the right players in attempts to seize power again in two, or four years, so they can prop up more extravagant headstones.
But in no way is this system meant to provide for the majority of American citizens. In fact, from what we see by examining these spectacularly stupid projects, the opposite is usually the case.
http://www.alternet.org/story/151043/4_fantastically_stupid_projects_bankrolled_by_republicans_aiming_to_please_their_corporate_masters?page=entire
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