Drive by blogging -

[kyburg]

Running like hell to catch up. Yes, I AM cleaning out the refrigerator before I go to work this morning, and taking the proceeds to the trash can. Yes, I am. So help me. It's scary in there.

However.

Anyone taking bets on the outrageous claims of who to blame for Katrina - and none of them hitting the mark, anywhere near close - are getting paid. Yes, the nutjobs who wanted to blame abortionists, gays, feminazis, acid rain - they're all out in force and getting airtime.

Uh, guys? Turn the television off. Really. You can do that now.

Quit paying them. No, I mean it. This is how these guys get paid. They're entertaining enough to sell soap at the commercial break.

Does anyone believe this crap anymore? If I hear someone say something that profoundly STOOPID within earshot, you can believe I react. On the national media? Please. Someone's got an agenda, and it's getting pretty thin around the edges these days.

Not by words, by actions. That's how you judge.

And yeah, I found $10 for Katrina relief yesterday. I hope to find more in the next couple of weeks.

I blame the people whose job - whose primary, sworn function - was to operate for the public good and squandered the funding that needed to be put into the infrastructures and services overseas.

Don't tell me it's really impossible to look after this many people. Dude, that was your job and I don't want hear whining about how hard it is. Do a good job, and don't complain about how you weren't allowed to do a half-assed mess of it all and blame it on whatever. Do the job you were paid for. If it takes money, SUR-FUCKING-PRIZE. Make the case and get the funding. I don't want to hear about how hard it is. If you've got time to complain, you aren't working hard enough. Get with it.

*snarksnark*

Comments

[foogod.livejournal.com]

Of course most of the people involved actually were doing a good job.. the real problem is that it takes money, and the American people are spoiled rich kids who don't see why they should have to give up any of their "hard earned" (yeah right) pocket money on silly things like actually caring about the future or about anybody but them, and do their best to elect representatives who make sure that won't happen.

"Read my lips: No new safety."

It's easy to blame administrators, or politicians, but the real problem isn't either of those. The real source of most of our current ills is the American public, and I have yet to hear a practical solution to that.

But I'm venturing into the world of political discussions here, which I really dislike doing, so I'll stop now..

[pipu.livejournal.com]

But the money was there. The administrators and politicians decided to use it on their pet projects (tax cuts, Iraq war, etc.) instead of saving it for a (literally) rainy day.

[foogod.livejournal.com]

First, budgetary allocations are a bit more complicated than that, so in many cases that money wouldn't have been "there" even if it wasn't spent on those things, but that's not the real point anyway..

The real point is: How exactly did these politicians with all their pet projects and no ethics get into the office in the first place? I'll tell you how, by promising the public lower taxes, or tax refunds, or "no new taxes". It works every time. They don't have to say anything about what they're going to do with the existing tax money, because all the American public wants is somebody who will promise them they won't have to pay more for whatever does happen. As long as they do that, the voting public really doesn't care about much else (with a few exceptions).