malkav11

This whole budget crisis thing is driving me absolutely crazy. Not only do I work for the government, meaning that every spending cut might cost me my job or make me work harder for the same money, but the sheer ludicrous fuckedness of the priorities is making me incandescent with rage. We've clearly got to cut $1 billion in funding for healthcare, education, and economic aid, but oh! $750 million for a new Vikings stadium? $150 million in Target Center renovations? Absolutely must happen. No -possible- better use for that money. It's not like they've got perfectly usable stadiums right goddamn now, or like the vast profit engine that is professional sports could possibly afford to pay for it themselves or with the help of those other monolithic corporate entities that are buying naming rights to these things. No way.

Similarly, at a federal level we've absolutely -got- to hand off billions of dollars in extended tax cuts to the richest 1% of the country for them to sit on that money and gloat. And we clearly have to continue pouring trillions into futile, unproductive wars that are killing thousands. But we can't possibly afford to pay to heat the homes of our poorest citizens so that they don't fucking FREEZE TO DEATH in harsh northern winters. No sir, that can't be done.

In conclusion: fuck the fuckityfuck fuck fuck fuck.