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Paying for stuff like roads, highways, snowplows, schools, government workers, the military, that kind of thing. If you'd like a detailed response, you can look

Paying for stuff like roads, highways, snowplows, schools, government workers, the military, that kind of thing. If you'd like a detailed response, you can look up the federal budget, and the state and city budgets relevant to your area.

samstave 6y ago
Sure buddy. Let me ask you: Why are our roads so fucked up? Why are our teachers so underpaid? (Did you read the entire 1.9 TRILLION stimulus bill from Harris Biden? - I DID. Guess what they only gave $800 million toward edu packages which DID NOT EVEN CALL FOR OR REFERENCE TEACHER PAY INCREASES) Why are government workers not answering phones. Why is the military un-auditable. You are a fucking idiot. Let me tell you something, The gas tax has done nothing for actual roads. The lottery has done nothing for schools The government workers are only in it for their own benefits The military is NOT on your side. Your taxes are used to thwart you - not build you. If you disagree - then, please explain to me. EDUCATE me. on how I am wrong.
- loopercal 6y ago
  >You are a fucking idiot. >If you disagree - then, please explain to me. EDUCATE me. on how I am wrong. Boy howdy if that's how you go about seeking education I can guess a) what you political opinions are and b) how you arrived at them.
- CRConrad 6y ago
  > Why are our roads so fucked up? > Why are our teachers so underpaid? Because some assholes -- present company very much not excluded -- don't pay enough taxes?
- BeetleB 6y ago
  > You are a fucking idiot. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names." "Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle." "Please don't use uppercase for emphasis." "Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine." "Please don't fulminate." You were warned a day ago as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26323291 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26323291
  - samstave 6y ago
    I apologize - I am just so upset on how things are going and I am livid at the inability to make meaningful change for the positive while we all watch ourselves being robbed. The fact that there is a "vote" on a 1.9 TRILLION additional stimulus, on top of the ~6 TRILLION previous thefts - the fact that in 2008, many senators and congress folk had their spouses create LLCs - then get stimulus and bailout funds just illustrates the corruption. The situation is bananas right now. And people are defending the system. This is like if you have major outages to prod and instead of doing a proper post mortem to get to root cause on the failures, you re-up your contracts with the vendors who failed you and pay bonuses to execs and ops people who left the system in a position to fail, then have all the other employees yell at anyone who questions what the hell is going on. I get emotional - isolation for the last year has made emotions bottle up... But seriously this situation sucks. Again, I apologize for certain things - but not my indignant opinion of the current political and technical climate we are forced to live in.

samstave 6y ago

Sure buddy. Let me ask you: Why are our roads so fucked up? Why are our teachers so underpaid? (Did you read the entire 1.9 TRILLION stimulus bill from Harris Biden? - I DID. Guess what they only gave $800 million toward edu packages which DID NOT EVEN CALL FOR OR REFERENCE TEACHER PAY INCREASES) Why are government workers not answering phones. Why is the military un-auditable. You are a fucking idiot. Let me tell you something, The gas tax has done nothing for actual roads. The lottery has done nothing for schools The government workers are only in it for their own benefits The military is NOT on your side. Your taxes are used to thwart you - not build you. If you disagree - then, please explain to me. EDUCATE me. on how I am wrong.

loopercal 6y ago
>You are a fucking idiot. >If you disagree - then, please explain to me. EDUCATE me. on how I am wrong. Boy howdy if that's how you go about seeking education I can guess a) what you political opinions are and b) how you arrived at them.
CRConrad 6y ago
> Why are our roads so fucked up? > Why are our teachers so underpaid? Because some assholes -- present company very much not excluded -- don't pay enough taxes?
BeetleB 6y ago
> You are a fucking idiot. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names." "Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle." "Please don't use uppercase for emphasis." "Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine." "Please don't fulminate." You were warned a day ago as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26323291 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26323291
- samstave 6y ago
  I apologize - I am just so upset on how things are going and I am livid at the inability to make meaningful change for the positive while we all watch ourselves being robbed. The fact that there is a "vote" on a 1.9 TRILLION additional stimulus, on top of the ~6 TRILLION previous thefts - the fact that in 2008, many senators and congress folk had their spouses create LLCs - then get stimulus and bailout funds just illustrates the corruption. The situation is bananas right now. And people are defending the system. This is like if you have major outages to prod and instead of doing a proper post mortem to get to root cause on the failures, you re-up your contracts with the vendors who failed you and pay bonuses to execs and ops people who left the system in a position to fail, then have all the other employees yell at anyone who questions what the hell is going on. I get emotional - isolation for the last year has made emotions bottle up... But seriously this situation sucks. Again, I apologize for certain things - but not my indignant opinion of the current political and technical climate we are forced to live in.