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Some things bureaucracies do not do well: Everyone know what you get in evry public building - Huge ugly abstract pieces with no point. It is a shameful waste of tax dollars.

If you like huge ugly abstract pieces with no point; And want to buy them to display in your barn, that is fine with me, but why should the public have to finance your hobby?

posted 4 years ago
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I loathe all the major candidates.

I know that in a democracy you don't get everything you want, and some people don't get anything they want, but dmmm. This has to be the biggest collection of self-serving narcistic losers ever.

posted 4 years, 3 months ago
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To tell you the truth, I am shocked to see our congress-critters cooperating enough to do anything. The refund will be next to useless in dealing with what ails our economy, but I am still shocked that they managed to do anything. I believe our government is broken.

It feels like we a re-living the 70?s. Gas prices rising rapidly like they did in ?74 and again in ?76. A nation tired of the lack of morality in Washington DC and ready for someone to shake it up.

In ?76, we elected a man that was unsullied by the dirt of DC, but that was completely unsuited for the Presidency. It looks to me like we will do that again too. The nation staggered into an era of high inflation and no economic growth, and if I had to bet, that is where the USA will be spending the next decade.

It is a shame really because this nation?s problems are solvable. We could generate our electricity with nuclear power. We could make our oil with gas-to-liquid and coal-to-oil plants. We could make our own toys. We could make our own cars. We could make our own clothes. We could make this work. A capitalist economy is ultimately based on optimism and honesty: Neither of which seems to be abundant these days.

posted 4 years, 3 months ago
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