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Originally Posted by AzTeK
Ever heard of the ethanol from corn subsidies?
And isn't that turning into a pile of crap? It was always and in every way a bad idea. Whenever the governmnet subsudizes a product it turns out bad. They chose the wrong thing for the wrong reasons.
Ever heard of government-owned cars? Here is an interesting statistic about car/truck registrations, also by the US government. Obviously most politicians have some sort of a personal driver. And let me not even get started about through your vast military funding and action you drive up oil price by heating up the conflict in the ME - that's even a double-whammy, first you pay for the military costs and then you pay for it at the pump. You can't be serious? You pay for all the stuff you wrote above on a daily basis, where's the problem with actually investing the money in areas where the public will actually benefit from it? |
I agree that there is too much public money going to govornment transportation. I think they all should have to ride the publicly funded transportation they voted for. Either that or pay for thier own transportation like the rest of us.
Taking money from one pocket of the govornment and putting it into another is not really "spending" though.
I realize the ME was a model of stabilization before the Iraq invasion, but it has taken 5 years to get oil prices this high. It has nothing to do with rising demand around the world or restrictions on new discoveries or recoveries. Nothing to do with the bans on other types of energy production. Nothing to do with anything but the U.S. in Iraq.
I think your right, we need to get rid of the military so we can fund public transportation.