That 100% tracks with almost every idiot I know who obsesses over “government waste”.
Did you ever ask this guy if he thought massive giveaways (along with backrubs and reach-arounds and blowjobs) being given to the wealthy and to corporations was “government waste”? What about spending on things like a border wall or on ICE?
It’s such an easy sell. We pay so much in taxes but get so little back. The idea that government must be wasting it is easy to swallow: I’m not thriving so they must be wasting all that tax money.
Also: good government and the spending involved with it is often complicated and morons have little interest in actually trying to understand complex systems and how they may interoperate with one another.
But if an idiot hears about $500 hammers or something about “woke” (the modern equivalent of “welfare queen”) or some story on Faux about some guy eating lobster and steak, and they jump right to the conclusion that it is all waste. No thought required; it’s all about the vibes, maaaaan.
You jest, but I guess in a society that doesn’t sufficiently value education (and whose government employs actors who actively sabotage it), all anyone has to go on is vibes.
No, because it would make no difference. But I never have to see or speak to that moron ever again. He and my wife’s friend (who has since become my friend, too) got a divorce and we were never really his friend, anyway, just someone we tolerated for her sake.
That 100% tracks with almost every idiot I know who obsesses over “government waste”.
Did you ever ask this guy if he thought massive giveaways (along with backrubs and reach-arounds and blowjobs) being given to the wealthy and to corporations was “government waste”? What about spending on things like a border wall or on ICE?
It’s such an easy sell. We pay so much in taxes but get so little back. The idea that government must be wasting it is easy to swallow: I’m not thriving so they must be wasting all that tax money.
Also: good government and the spending involved with it is often complicated and morons have little interest in actually trying to understand complex systems and how they may interoperate with one another.
But if an idiot hears about $500 hammers or something about “woke” (the modern equivalent of “welfare queen”) or some story on Faux about some guy eating lobster and steak, and they jump right to the conclusion that it is all waste. No thought required; it’s all about the vibes, maaaaan.
You jest, but I guess in a society that doesn’t sufficiently value education (and whose government employs actors who actively sabotage it), all anyone has to go on is vibes.
No, because it would make no difference. But I never have to see or speak to that moron ever again. He and my wife’s friend (who has since become my friend, too) got a divorce and we were never really his friend, anyway, just someone we tolerated for her sake.