Thanks to everyone who submitted videos to the Center for Reproductive Rights after the first anti-Hyde video. Here’s some of the responses they got from folks explaining what they’d nix if they had veto power over some government spending.
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Way to miss the point, albeit on purpose. You should not be using the internet, by the way. It was established using taxpayer-funded research. You and all anti-tax nuts should put your money where you mouth is and boycott the internet, the roads, and getting your mail ASAP.
You and all anti-tax nuts should put your money where you mouth is and boycott the internet, the roads, and getting your mail ASAP.
My commute to work would so much nicer (and safer!) if all Libertarians stopped using what I payed for with my tax money. Sorry to derail, but it’s such a fantastic dream. Too bad Libertarians never feel the need to be logically consistent.
I object to my tax dollars going to subsidize sports arenas. Also, any money spent on government contractors. I believe the government should be self-sustaining and should not burden the private sector with public problems. :-p
I don’t want my tax dollars going to new science books that teach that Intelligent Design is science, nor to pay the salaries of school board members who mandate such a thing go into said science books.
Very nice video, except for the one about the F-22. Not that there’s anything wrong with objecting to it, but the facts presented aren’t exactly correct. It’s not a bomber, its a fighter (the best one ever built, but also too damn expensive). The military did want it, or at least wanted to keep the option open to build more. And its already been canceled by being written out of last years budget. Its little things like that which shape perceptions of people you want to influence.
Oh, and I don’t want my tax dollars going as subsidies to big agribusiness so they can continue to drown us in cheap HFCS.
OK, I’m the master of threadjacking, but this news is so sweet it most be posted:
Via the Associated Press:
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A conservative activist who posed as a pimp to target the community-organizing group ACORN and the son of a federal prosecutor were among four people arrested by the FBI and accused of trying to interfere with phones at Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office.
Activist James O’Keefe, 25, was already in Landrieu’s New Orleans office Monday when Robert Flanagan and Joseph Basel, both 24, showed up claiming to be telephone repairmen, U.S. Attorney Jim Letten’s office said Tuesday. Letten says O’Keefe recorded the two with his cell phone.
Flanagan, the son of acting U.S. Attorney Bill Flanagan in Shreveport, and Basel asked for access to a phone at the reception desk. Then they asked for access to a phone closet so they could work on the phone system. The men were directed to another office in the building, where they again said they were telephone repairmen.
They were arrested later by the U.S. Marshal’s Service. Details of the arrest were not available. A fourth man, Stan Dai, 24, was also arrested, but Letten’s office said only that he assisted the others in planning, coordinating and preparing the operation.
For anyone wondering, James O’Keefe is the 20-something douchebag who dressed up as a pimp to try to prove some batshit wingnut conspiracy theory against ACORN.
And now, he’s been reduced to a two-bit Watergate wannabe who may soon become a federal inmate.
I object to my tax dollars going to subsidize sports arenas.
YES X 1,000.
DTG, that link’s not working for me. Anyone else having problems?
There’s someone who crowed about how ACORN’s such an EEEEVIL organization (of course! they’re liberals!1!) that needs to see this.
Try this one, it’s from NOLA.com, the website of the Times-Picayune (New Orleans’ major daily newspaper):
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/01/acorn_gotcha_man_arrested_for.html
“There’s someone who crowed about how ACORN’s such an EEEEVIL organization (of course! they’re liberals!1!) that needs to see this.”
...unfortunately, if they’re really hard-core wingnuts, they’ll be more likely to believe that the Newly IslamoFascist and Librul FBI under the Kenyan Usurper is now an EEEEVIL organization, rather than change their opinion about ACORN.
See anything related to Janet Reno under Klinton vs. wingnut attitudes toward Ashcroft as he helped Cheney dismantle the Constitution (and Ashcroft wasn’t as bad as Abu Gonzales…)
Are arenas, etc., typically funded w/ federal money? What about the death penalty? I guess the federal government funds the states and such things are funded that way?
On behalf of my flyover state, I apologize for giving the country John Ashcroft.
If he wouldn’t have lost his U.S. Senate race to a dead guy (his opponent, Mel Carnahan, was killed in a plane crash three weeks prior to the election) in 2000, he likely wouldn’t have been appointed AG, as Bush wouldn’t have wanted to lose the Senate seat.
So again… sorry about that.
SweetT-
Yes and no. A lot of time you can get federal assistance if you want open up a new sports arena (it looks good to the constituents to say you’re an X fan) but it is true that the bulk of arenas are NORMALLY out of local and state coffers.
The death penalty, on the other hand, is a federal penalty as well as (some) state penalty, so yes, every time you kill someone on a federal charge, it’s federal money.
There are so many things I WANT my tax dollars to go to, rather then don’t want.
The death penalty, on the other hand, is a federal penalty as well as (some) state penalty, so yes, every time you kill someone on a federal charge, it’s federal money.
While I certainly don’t like any of my federal tax dollars going to fund the death penalty, federal executions aren’t particularly common.
The federal government has only executed three people since 1963: Timothy McVeigh (2001), Juan Raul Garza (2001), and Louis Jones, Jr. (2003).
The U.S. Military hasn’t had any executions since 1961, though it is possible that Nidal Malik Hassan could be sentenced to death when he is (most likely) found guilty in his Court Martial.
Anyway, like I said before, I am against the use of federal tax dollars to fund the death sentence - though it isn’t much in the way of tax dollars.
OT, but Zifnab, can you clarify what you mean about government contractors? I’m a federal employee and share an office with 2 government contractors. Do you mean we should hire them on as regular staff? or are you specifically talking about Halliburton or what? I’m just not clear what you mean.
I don’t want my tax dollars to go to training “Homeland Security” attaches or whatever they are for all kinds of silly things—like the guys at the DMV who tried to tell my friend who worked with them that he couldn’t read “1984” at work. Fortunately, he’s a real-life rules lawyer and knew they didn’t have a leg to stand on.
Who is the guy at the beginning of this video? I used to follow him and I lost the link, his name, HELP!
Never heard this site sound so….libertarian! I LOVE it, keep it up!