Posted On: Wednesday - June 26th 2024 4:05PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Lefty MegaStupidity Student and other Snowflakes Curmudgeonry Economics ctrl-left
I'll get to a review of the Carlson/Sailer interview soon. These personal and local anecdotes probably aren't so awfully interesting, but,
1) I want to get this off my chest.
2) Unlike the last post, there's a big general point here in addition to just general annoyance.
Yeah, it's the same local D politician as in that previous post involved here. He won his D-primary handily and will surely win "his" State House seat again in November. Just to show his constituents how thankful they ought to be, he has a big billboard up:
Delivering $6 million for the [neighborhood] project!
His name has been changed to protect the scum, the amount has been altered by a tad, the name of the neighborhood was redacted, and I added an exclamation point, because, why not?
The project, having been going on for 3 months already with no end in sight*, has required the narrowing down of the street to 2 lanes for a few blocks, slowing done traffic and adversely affecting the businesses there. The project is basically a long flower bed. Apparently, the old median, with small hardwood trees and rubbery fake bark, was NOT OK, and the holes in the roads all over, and, well, crime and shit, will just have to wait. This is important.
Not only that, but the point is that this 6 million dollars has been "delivered"! It's been delivered to our neighborhood in the form of 20 to 40 guys working with machinery (there's infrastructure down there, which the city screwed with for years not so long ago), almost all of them foreign Hispanic guys**, working for half a year. Them's some wages! So, that's free money being delivered ... or something.
This guy is not stupid enough to believe the "Broken Windows" fallacy, is he? He's a college graduate, a lawyer (of course!), with a nuclear family, etc. I guess he figures the local neighborhood voters are the dupes. That's 6 MILLION DOLLARS that we are just getting, because State Rep. Jones has delivered it, sure, we should be so glad. What about the people in another city who may want their own flower bed project, delivered by their own helpful, kindly Representative using that same... errrr... free money from ...? Forget it.
I don't know. 10 years ago even, I'd have chewed this guy out, trying to explain the stupidity of his Flower Bed fallacy to him, on his mobile phone, the number being the one I got off the junk mail. I have mellowed out, though. I can't fix all this stupidity with one phone call. I'm sure I'll enjoy the flowers next Spring. I mean, it's not like that 6 million bucks was just gonna spend itself, anyway ...
PS: Oh, this is all the story, except that the hard-working guys earning our neighborhood $6 million were not out there during business hours today, oddly reminding me about this post. It's that heat wave, see? We can't be working out there in the heat. They canceled the kids' sports practice too, for 7 freaking thirty PM! We'd have been playing outside all day back in my childhood, without parents asking "where's your water bottle?"
So, I guess even the hardworking Amigos are snowflakes now (per diktat, anyway).
* I do not kid when I say that this project would take a week or less in China.
** The foremen speak English. One told me nicely what was going on, as I was stuck in the single lane on my side.
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