Are you sure those are random thoughts? It seems more like a collection of random words.

What are you talking about? Does it relate to this thread?

Hey, they're yours. Call them what you will.

It should be evident, and yes, I believe so.

You don't understand my objection? I don't how to make my objection any more plain.

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I understand your objection. I should have said that I don't know why you object to the public spectacle.

I am sure millions of people loved every moment of it. So what?

To me it is a complete waste of taxpayers' money.

Like a marriage, they could handle the contract in a courthouse window with a couple of witnesses. Spend the saved money of crippled children of blind, unwed minority mothers.

My point exactly. Your meaning should be evident. Too bad it's not.

Do you oppose all public celebrations that cost taxpayer money?

And how much money did this concert cost us?

The infatuation with wealth as skewed much common sense in America, IMO. I saw a session of Congress in which several banking high mucky mucks were spinning the crisis to reflect well on them (as it became obvious a few weeks after). I found their lies unpersuasive.

Some of these people have come to see it as their birthright to have a 6 to 7 figure annual income for life and a net worth in the 8 to 9 figures. Some people in the world legitimately earn that kind of money but there's a large body, IMO, trying to contrive that sort of income from smoke and mirrors. Too many have "succeeded," at least in the short run.

The die-hard free marketeers will tell us "yes, but free enterprise corrects itself, those people will be put out of business." And if a years long depression results, oh well, apparently.

This is a bit like saying that the oceans will correct man's overfishing by depriving mankind of food long enough to bring the supply and demand into order. And the seas will recover their good health in a mere 5 to 10 thousand years. I mean who knows how long recovery will take but the more we bludgeon it until the gravy/fish oil train runs out, the longer it will take.

Mitigating damage in both areas now will require the dreaded regulation.

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Te futueo et caballum tuum

1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

The poor ye always have with you.

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Te futueo et caballum tuum

1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

Pretty much all spectacle at taxpayer expense is frivolous self-adulation of pompous politicians. I'd rather not pay the tax that pays for the frivolity. If anybody is going to be frivolous on my dime let it be me!

Funny you didn't use that Jesus quote under the previous administration!