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Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-08-11 06:30 PM
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29. Let's be serious for a second.
Where do we get the idea that taxpayer dollars should only go to things taxpayers like? Lots of them don't like tanks or fighter jets, even more don't like Congress.

If this principle were applied equally, we could kiss the National Endowment for the Arts goodbye.
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  -Really? My tax dollars? I hate to sound like a tea bagger, but TalkingDog  Feb-08-11 05:02 PM   #0 
  - I agree.  Lucian   Feb-08-11 05:05 PM   #1 
  - If there's $450,000 lying around that needs spending so bad - I have an idea  hedgehog   Feb-08-11 05:05 PM   #2 
  - KHOU.com article on the issue...  PoliticAverse   Feb-08-11 05:09 PM   #3 
  - Heh. All the teabaggers in the comments sections think it's just great!  Doctor_J   Feb-09-11 11:42 AM   #49 
  - they are trying to hide in a house  RandomThoughts   Feb-08-11 05:10 PM   #4 
  - I was thinking the exact same thing  Auggie   Feb-08-11 05:10 PM   #5 
  - $450,000 doesn't sound extravagant for a couple seconds of fine entertainment to me  NNN0LHI   Feb-08-11 05:11 PM   #6 
  - Isn't that about what Charlie Sheen pays for hookers? You know... For a few seconds of entertainment  Glassunion   Feb-08-11 05:16 PM   #10 
  - Bill Jerry Jones for it!!!!!  pacalo   Feb-08-11 05:13 PM   #7 
  - If they dropped napalm i'd watch it  Lars77   Feb-08-11 05:14 PM   #8 
  - Remeber when they spent 3 mil on studying magic mushrooms?  Nevernose   Feb-08-11 05:14 PM   #9 
  - Yes, but think how many people got to try the mushrooms...  saras   Feb-08-11 07:00 PM   #31 
  - That's really cool  Nevernose   Feb-08-11 08:57 PM   #34 
  - No body asked me about 'shrooms either  tinymontgomery   Feb-08-11 09:46 PM   #38 
  - It doesn't bother me.  bbinacan   Feb-08-11 05:18 PM   #11 
  - multiply that by every game played in the nfl....they do it every sunday/every game  spanone   Feb-08-11 05:22 PM   #12 
  - Every Sunday/every game -- not even close.  ManiacJoe   Feb-08-11 07:49 PM   #32 
  - Well, it IS the Super Bowl  TheCowsCameHome   Feb-08-11 05:22 PM   #13 
  - Too bad they didn't spend $4.50  localroger   Feb-08-11 05:23 PM   #14 
  - You got that right! n/t  bbinacan   Feb-08-11 05:31 PM   #16 
  - Half a million for a short flight? BTW, the link is dead.  madinmaryland   Feb-08-11 05:24 PM   #15 
  - The flight came in from VA. n/t  bbinacan   Feb-08-11 05:32 PM   #17 
  - It was a huge audience and was probably worth every penny  BeeBee   Feb-08-11 05:35 PM   #18 
  - The only flaw in your logic  customerserviceguy   Feb-08-11 06:27 PM   #27 
  - Damn me and my lack of military knowledge! n/t  BeeBee   Feb-09-11 11:35 AM   #48 
  - Do we need to work on recruiting?  WatsonT   Feb-08-11 06:29 PM   #28 
     - My point was that a 30 second ad during the Super Bowl  BeeBee   Feb-09-11 11:34 AM   #47 
  - They would be flying training hops in any case. Non-issue.  11 Bravo   Feb-08-11 05:38 PM   #19 
  - I think so too  hfojvt   Feb-08-11 05:56 PM   #22 
  - +1 n/t  tammywammy   Feb-08-11 06:19 PM   #24 
  - If this was a training hop, then I wouldn't have a problem.  darkstar3   Feb-09-11 12:24 AM   #43 
  - Let the NFL pay for it....  WCGreen   Feb-08-11 05:41 PM   #20 
  - AMEN! n/t  drmeow   Feb-09-11 01:48 PM   #51 
  - I agree, and I am liberal too.  demigoddess   Feb-08-11 05:41 PM   #21 
  - Wonder how many life saving transplants could have been  obxhead   Feb-08-11 05:59 PM   #23 
  - I'm curious how somebody arrived at the $450,000 figure  customerserviceguy   Feb-08-11 06:26 PM   #25 
  - About 25% of that figure is fuel.  Glassunion   Feb-08-11 08:24 PM   #33 
     - Whew!  customerserviceguy   Feb-08-11 09:02 PM   #35 
        - I don't know. I could not find the specifics from the DOD.  Glassunion   Feb-08-11 09:16 PM   #36 
           - I have a feeling that the only 'real' cost  customerserviceguy   Feb-08-11 09:26 PM   #37 
              - Yep. But to a different point the DOD has been known to pay thousands for  Glassunion   Feb-08-11 09:47 PM   #39 
                 - True, they're good at wasting a buck here and there!  customerserviceguy   Feb-08-11 10:12 PM   #40 
  - That's a good paying job  WatsonT   Feb-08-11 06:27 PM   #26 
  - Let's be serious for a second.  Arkana   Feb-08-11 06:30 PM   #29 
  - There is a difference between disliking what your taxes are spent on,  darkstar3   Feb-08-11 06:43 PM   #30 
     - Pegged it. Especially when they are cutting funding for kids, schools, etc. n/t  TalkingDog   Feb-08-11 11:04 PM   #41 
  - This shit is so damn dumb.  Odin2005   Feb-08-11 11:06 PM   #42 
  - I know you hate to sound like a tea bagger, but quite frankly you do  Hippo_Tron   Feb-09-11 01:34 AM   #44 
  - Yeah, and the chicom might've attacked right then, in which case we'd have been ready!  Electric Monk   Feb-09-11 01:53 AM   #45 
  - The Super Bowl Sponsors should be paying for that part of the show.  ehrnst   Feb-09-11 07:17 AM   #46 
  - I think we should put as much jet fuel exhaust  raouldukelives   Feb-09-11 12:39 PM   #50 
 

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