Pi, no one in this forum makes me laugh more than your posts.

You try to play both sides of the aisle....but in the END....

You only CONTRADICT yourself....

Please Pi, for the love of GOD....STOP playing both sides of the aisle.....I like you, your a good man, I agree with your posts 90% of the time.

One last thought......Why do I get the feeling that all of you mods that post in the "US Politics" thread are in cahoots?

PROVE ME WRONG !!!!!!!!!!!

Show me one instance where one mod DISAGREED with another mod in this thread.  I await your answer.

"Where do you think I am contradicting myself?"

In the beginning, you inferred the CDC's $8000 picnic tables were a good purchase.

Next, you inferred their purchase was questionable.

At the end of the day, you came full circle and said, yeah those tables were a bad idea. I was just messing with you.
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Now don't quote me WORD FOR WORD, but that was the jist of your argument about those CDC picnic tables.

NYPost claims it was for "roughly" 30 tables, so roughly ~$8000 per table. 

A waste sure.

NYPost claims it was for "roughly" 30 tables, so roughly ~$8000 per table. 

A waste sure.

Then it starts a fire, burns down the nearest buildings, causing 100's of millions in damage. Now everyone's wondering why we didn't go for a higher quality option. 

Pretty much every private company spends "unnecessary" money on extraneous employee benefits, and stuff for the company that probably isn't 100% necessary.

Companies spend plenty of money on furniture, kitchenware, exercise rooms. Some of these things can help keep employees happy, while they're at their job. 

Maybe it saves them money through employee retention. 

Maybe employees want flexibility so that they can work outside during the day, and not be stuck at their desks? 

Maybe it also helps employees who want to work a little bit later in the day. 

Maybe it helps them conduct business meetings. Even private companies spend a lot of money for that kind of thing.

Exactly.

Rand Paul, as a senator should hopefully have a better idea of government spending than most people.

Yet his demonstration of how wasteful government is, feels like such a stretch, it doesn't feel particularly convincing. 

I already did say the money was wasteful. I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm just saying we can talk about the other layers to this. 

But I'll go even further and say, being able to "waste" money is kind of an important good part of government. Being able to invest in helpful technologies that private industry wouldn't because they're not profitable is important. We wouldn't have space exploration without it. SpaceX wouldn't exist without NASA existing. 

The vast majority of space firsts were done by government programs.

Being able to invest in green technologies, is an important government responsibility right now. 

I could easily list all of your names that are in cahoots in the "US Politics" thread. But, I won't out of respect.