P.T. Barnum’s heirs?
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could all spend other people’s money for what we wanted?
It must be fun to be Denver’s mayor or a City Council member and spend $27 million and $550 million of other people’s money. And I suspect the majority of the people who will vote in Denver on these issues will vote them all in, as they seem to have a history of loving to give tons of money to the city government to fritter away and, in return, get little or nothing to show for it.
Makes one wonder if the men and women running our city are related to old P.T. Barnum.
Frank Galmish, Denver
Frank,
It's not just the city. Take a look farther east to the big Pork-Pen in DC!
Bloated deficits and budgets. It sure did not take the Republicans long to go against their self described "fiscally conservative" banter.
Posted by Sean on August 17, 2007 09:41 AMEveryone misses the salient point. When someone is elected to public office they become brain dead to the best interests of the public. This is because the addiction to power and control is stronger then any other addiction known to mankind and allows them to exists in a self created fantasy world that surpasses anything dreamed up by Lewis Carroll or Geoffrey Chaucer.
This addiction lasts until death and can only be controled by ever increasing doses of that drug which causes a condition revealed by the congressional record, ad nauseam, which has been been identified by contemporary political scientific studies and findings of back issues of Mad Magazine as LSEID, Loosing Sanity by Exponentially Increasing Degrees.
Posted by Allen Campbell on August 17, 2007 10:32 AMGee, if the citizens of Denver are willing to repeatedly approve the ballot proposals, does that mean they are all stupid, except for Frank Galmish? Part of living in a democracy is accepting the outcome of an election when that election is conducted fairly. When I vote on a tax increase (and I have voted both for and against Denver tax increases), I'm not voting just to spend other people's money, I'm also voting on whether to spend my own. I take both into consideration. As I'm feeling optimistic today, I will assume that most voters take both their own self-interest as well as the interest of the rest of the city into consideration when they cast a vote.
Posted by Greg on August 17, 2007 10:58 AMBefore we approve of yet another multi-million dollar "feel-good" program financed with the other guys money, why don't we fix the broken bridges before one of these rusting and craked 1940-dinosaurs sends a few citizens to the promised land.
Posted by Hank on August 17, 2007 11:11 AMI need to morph but yet remain within the subject matter: Spending other people's money. W. Bush spends thusly by giving $billions to the turd from the Middle East who was assisted in his suicide on Good Friday. Mitt Romney will do the same blessed by the Catholic Supremes, the Vatican Five, with the worst of the worst being Scalia and Thomas who seek total destruction of the Wall of Separation of church and state. Here we have a Black and Brown terrorists trouncing 55 Founders of America who risked their lives.
I cribbed Mountain Meadows Massacre from the internet for one of my books and, viola, they are making it into a major motion picture.
Mitt Romney's seer, revelatior, prophet (when the prophets speaks thinking stops) Brigham Young ordered the massacre of a 160 men, women and children wagon train because he wanted its wealth. The actor says he was horrified when he read MMM script and you can find it on ask or google.
This is Brigham that Mitt grovels to and holds in high esteem. Brigham was as bad as Joseph Smith whose henchmen such as Rockwell kills a hundred apostates or simply those Jo does not like or whose wives he craves such as Bishop Snow who castrates a young man so he can have her for his 33rd wife. However, Mormons are not worse than the Christian drenched in Taliban strategy. In German you can find eleven volumes on atrocities perpetrate by Christianity.
Four Mormons have salivated the Presidency: Smith, Young, two Romneys. Peruse MMM via internet.
Posted by RG Risen Ape / Deicide r22037@yahoo on August 17, 2007 11:33 AMReligion is not the culprit, it is those who use whatever religion is convenient as a stage to present their warped interpretation of that religions carefully selected tenets to justify whatever their agenda is. Those who do this are no better than Hitler, Mao and Stalin and all their kind who are the worst examples of humanity and what every historic tyranny inevitably results in; Chaos, Mayhem and Murder.
Posted by Allen Campbell on August 17, 2007 01:40 PM"rusting and craked (sic) 1940-dinosaurs" Just like you, huh Hank?
Posted by on August 17, 2007 01:54 PMHank's response is a good one. I don't understand why he is ridiculed. And worse, "craked" is understood to contain a typo which is one of my shortcomings which includes many contributors to this forum. I suspect an ilk of Keith is responsible for this erroneous (try despicable) put-down.
Hank: For what its worth ~~~ I agree with you and as a deicide that slays gods I'm going to commence the same against some humans except the punishment will contain mitigation like a few years in purgatory where Pope Rat sends a billion or two periodically.
Posted by RG Deicide/Risen Ape r22037@yahoo on August 17, 2007 04:31 PM