Your Tax Dollars At Work: A $1,000,000 Suicide Prevention Wall

Dear Readers,

I’ve ranted about wasteful spending before, but I just found out about a new really really dumb wasteful spending project that is being funded by the $ 787 billion federal economic stimulus that was passed into law last month.

A town in Ohio is going to build a big suicide prevention wall around one of its bridges. A suicide prevention wall? Who ever heard of such a thing? And it’s not cheap, either. The wall comes with a price tag of over a million dollars.

But actually, you know, hopefully with this new wall built, all Ohioans will be incapable of killing themselves in any way. Ha ha ha.

Here’s the link to the article

http://www.ohio.com/news/top_stories/41958387.html

And have you heard about the news around the AIG executive bonuses? What really makes me mad about the AIG bonus stuff is that I feel like the media and the government are trying to point the finger at the businessmen and say, “Look, businessmen are so crafty and sneaky that they managed to get lots of money out of the system! Businesspeople are horrible and slimy, so we need to regulate them more. We need to create laws that prevent businesspeople from running our economy into the ground by taking all the money for themselves and keeping it from the lower classes.”

But really, the AIG bonuses were in the stimulus bill! The U.S. representatives, senators, and President all voted and signed it into law- so they should be blaming themselves for the AIG bonuses. In the words of my beloved Ronald Reagan, “Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is our problem.”

The bill was too big- nobody knew what was in it- they rushed to get that thing pushed through the House and the Senate- they were supposed to give the politicians and the public 48 hours to review it (even though 48 hours isn’t enough to throughouly review a bill that’s over 1,000 pages long!) Watch this You-Tube clip of House Republican leader John Boehner. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3085DErFpoY It will upset you, but you should really really see it!

So, I’m just upset about it.

See you later.

Sincerely,
Telemoonfa