FishermanTim
10-30-2014, 12:29 PM
Here we are days away from the latest mid-terms in what will be a never-ending "daisy-chain of annoyances, and it made me wonder:
There's a line in the movie "Brewster's Millions" (Richard Pryer and John Candy) where the character "Monty Brewster (Pryer) has to spend 30 million in 30 days without having any assets at the end of 30 days. If he succeeds, he gets 300 million, if he fails he gets zero!
One method spending $$ was to launch a political smear campaign against the to mayotal candidates, basically slandering himself.
His quote (paraphrased):
"Why would someone spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to get a jog that pays a hundred thousand, if they weren't planning on stealing back...with interest!"
So why are these hacks wasting so much money on these stupid campaign ads, ads that do nothing more than make me change the channel, when they could be doing something REALLY meaningful???
Oh, and don't forget, they get to KEEP all excess funds they don't piss away when the election is over!
Talk about a big score!
Frankly, I'd be happy if we could start all over again.
Make elected officals PERSONALLY responsible for their action, inactions and make then accountable for how they vote and how they spend OUR tax money! Let the punishments fit their crimes, and make the punishments MORE extreme because of their position!
Of course this is Massachusetts, so that will NEVER happen, and we'll continue to keep getting the same crappy politicians year after year.
There's a line in the movie "Brewster's Millions" (Richard Pryer and John Candy) where the character "Monty Brewster (Pryer) has to spend 30 million in 30 days without having any assets at the end of 30 days. If he succeeds, he gets 300 million, if he fails he gets zero!
One method spending $$ was to launch a political smear campaign against the to mayotal candidates, basically slandering himself.
His quote (paraphrased):
"Why would someone spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to get a jog that pays a hundred thousand, if they weren't planning on stealing back...with interest!"
So why are these hacks wasting so much money on these stupid campaign ads, ads that do nothing more than make me change the channel, when they could be doing something REALLY meaningful???
Oh, and don't forget, they get to KEEP all excess funds they don't piss away when the election is over!
Talk about a big score!
Frankly, I'd be happy if we could start all over again.
Make elected officals PERSONALLY responsible for their action, inactions and make then accountable for how they vote and how they spend OUR tax money! Let the punishments fit their crimes, and make the punishments MORE extreme because of their position!
Of course this is Massachusetts, so that will NEVER happen, and we'll continue to keep getting the same crappy politicians year after year.