2-year-old, $60 million Texas HS football stadium falling apart

Government spending, what can't it do!

 

It's unbelievable. All government spending is apparently both good and stimulative.

This kind of thinking is while we'll never be able to cut spending.

But, you should have left the "spoons" line for Dick.

 

The issue here is not government spending, as such. The (mostly) affluent voters of Allen, Texas, a fast-growing suburb that has embraced a movement of suburbs of its ilk to do big things that make it a destination in its own right (like the arena it built), passed the bond issuance. This was not some project that got rammed through some back channel.

However, taxpayers are likely to be faced with this choice -- eat the $60 million and have a useless white elephant, pay for repairs, or sue the fuck out of whomever built the thing to get them to make the fixes. The stadium is closed through June just to get an idea of what work needs to be done. Realistically, in most any scenario, it's going to be years before this reopens. The only scenario I see that gets the stadium open relatively soon is is if the construction company, for fear it will lose future projects, comes in and does the work on its dime. But I suspect that won't happen.

 

There goes hs graduation in June.

 

Snow days have pushed it back to July anyway.

 

Funny as shit!

 

That sounds like The New Deal.

 

Yeah. How did that work out?

 

Then you are for cutting military spending?

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

 

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/New_Deal_success.htm

If the 1928 figure is used as a baseline figure for a study as to whether the New Deal was a success or not, then in all three important areas, Roosevelt did not get back to the 1928 figure. However, America was at its economic peak then and after such an economic catastrophe as the Wall Street Crash, it would have bordered on the impossibility for Roosevelt to have got back to the 1928 figure.

If the 1933 figure is taken as a baseline figure - the year Roosevelt took office as president - then a different pattern emerges. In all three areas, there were significant improvements. Economic strength and development thrives on confidence and these figures give the clear impression that America now had greater confidence in her economic ability after the Wall Street Crash. For GDP - this is usually taken as key pointer in a nation's economic health - 1933 to 1939 witnessed a 60% increase; the amount of consumer products bought increased by 40% while private investment in industry increased by 5 times in just six years.

 

Who's against cutting defense spending?

If combined with cuts to entitlements, I think you'd get a lot of support for cuts to the military budget. Even without entitlement cuts, we just announced plans to shrink the Army to its smallest levels since before WWII.

The main thing we need to do to cut military spending is to define America's role in the world. We're expected to defend our nation, and rush relief supplies to the Philippines after a natural disaster.

We probably can't do both if we cut spending back to the levels some would like.

 

Yer outta luck, Philippines.