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I didn't feel his comment was as general as 'blindly accept the crappiness'. What I read (which mirrors my own sentiment) is that it is seen as the normal and p

• smsm42 14y ago
  If people pay a lot of taxes and still don't have enough money in the budget to finance what's important for them, maybe they should take a look into the local budget and figure out where the money went. I'm sure people of Linus' grade of brainpower could do that. There's also a chance they'd discover that some of the city workers have pretty cushy benefit packages and the cost of it is more than they though it would be. And that they may be underfunded because some of the city workers fly to global warming conferences in luxury hotels in Hawaii on their dime, that is known to happen too. I wonder if that happens in Finland. There's a long known bureaucratic principle then when the budget is short, first thing you cut is something that the public really feels the need - schools, firefighters, police, if you can find a way to involve sick or orphans - that's the gold. Because if you cut something really wasteful, you a) admit you wasted money and b) never get this money back ever. But if you cut something that is needed or perceived as needed, you show how bad it is hurting and if the situation ever improves, you get everything back at the first chance. Of course, the alternative of looking at the local budget is to cry for the federal government to take the money from "the rich" and give to the schools - because think of the children!