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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (824508)	12/21/2014 7:02:28 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576882

>> You can provide goods with robots, but it takes people to provide services. There are some things people have to do. But you don't need people to find out if mothers love their dogs as much as they do their kids (NIH - $371,000). And even complex tasks, like developing the healthcare.gov website would be a 10s of millions (at most) project for private enterprise but has run well beyond a billion dollars at this point. National Science Foundation spend 856,000 to teach mountain lions to walk on treadmills. Not only do you not need to spend that money on people, you don't need to spend it at all. We did not need to spend 500,000 on ads on MSNBC promoting the Obama "green jobs" agenda, but we did it. Should be illegal. May have been, who knows? We didn't need to spend 24 million bucks to put routers in tiny WV schools. But we did. We didn't need to spend 100 million to put in a harbor and airport in a town with a population of 75 people. We didn't need to spend two million dollars to create a Dept. of Agriculture "intern" program that hired exactly ONE intern. But yes, we did that, too. You see, these are money pits that are killing any futures our kids might have had. You don't give a shit about future generations. With all your talk about the "environment", hell the environment doesn't matter if you leave them to live in poverty.