We paid 30 million for this?

[Gato_Solo]

Later this month, throngs of Republicans will descend upon New York City to celebrate .... well, Republicans. The scene will be similar to last month, when thousands of Democrats came to Boston to celebrate Democrats.

After four years of spending taxpayer dollars at rates unseen in U.S. history, after failing to carry out the single most important responsibility of government — to protect American citizens from those who want to harm us — America's two major political organizations now get to throw themselves grand galas, where party leaders bloviate on national television about the earnest, hard-working taxpayer, then party in corporate suites where they nosh on the likes of "maple bourbon glazed turkey and roasted duck, and Forest Glen chardonnay."

And you and I pay for it.

Our tax dollars at work...

 

[IDLEchild]

"It takes a republican to come up with a really bad idea and it takes a democrat to make it worse.............a republican will stand up and say "I have got a reallllly bad idea".....and than a democrat will stand up and shout back "I know how to make it worse".........."

Lewis Black



What can we do besides get mad? They keep promising and telling us it is for our own good, the sad part is I think they are actually starting to believe it.

 

[Rose]

If I recall, Forest Glen Chardonay isn't all that expensive.

 

[Sharky]

Learned a new word today - thanks, Gato!

bloviate

intr.v. Slang blo·vi·at·ed, blo·vi·at·ing, blo·vi·ates

To discourse at length in a pompous or boastful manner: “the rural Babbitt who bloviates about ‘progress’ and ‘growth’” (George Rebeck).

It's aggravating to see taxpayer money being spent in such a fashion, but it's only the tip of the iceberg as far as governmental waste in general is concerned.

 

[Shadowfax]

and that's a universal thing, unfortunately. worse thing about it, is that there's not a lot you can do except for not voting again for them during next elections.

gotta love politicians...

 

[Gonz]

Sometimes not voting for the problem child brings more problems. This is one of those times.