[ExI] kiwis keeping it real

[William Flynn Wallace]

The money.  I don't remember, of course, but at some point we became aware
that Social Security was not a big moneybag full of our contributions.  All
money came out of current income.  So SS cannot be broke, since we are
borrowing the money.  bill w

On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 1:16 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> > *On Behalf Of *Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] kiwis keeping it real
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> On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 4:52 AM John Clark via extropy-chat <
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> 25 years ago some physicist publicly testified before Congress and said
> the US shouldn't build the Superconducting Super Collider because the money
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> >…Generally, "but we could better spend the money on X" is an invalid
> argument when discussing how something like Congress spends its money…It's
> like people think the money is tagged to only be spent on science (or
> whatever domain).  It never is… Adrian
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> Adrian I do thank you for that comment.  There is no “the money.”  All
> money is someone’s money.
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> There is a reason why I mention this.  We had a local bond measure which
> took 11 years to pass (it kept being rejected every 2 yrs) but the locals
> eventually voted for it.  It provided about 380 bucks to upgrade the
> schools and build several new structures for the high school.  I applied
> for and was selected for an oversight board tasked with watching the
> contractors and the school board, compare with the wording of the bond
> measure as it was written on the ballot and the voters accepted.
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> I am happy to report that the contractors are doing a marvelous job.
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> The difficulty is that with the pandemic… our needs very suddenly
> changed.  Now every meeting, eeeeevery damn meeting, during the public
> comments time, yahoos will get up and say, because of such and such, we
> need to spend THE MONEY on this and spend THE MONEY on that.  We aren’t
> allowed to interrupt the speaker but inside I am screaming THERE IS NO THE
> MONEY!  Our task is to review the plans, review the outcome, answer a
> simple question yes or no: Is this what the voters voted for?  Yes or no.
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> All of these proposals violate both the letter and the spirit of the bond
> measure.  We do not have the option of spending bond measure funds on
> anything besides what the voters chose.  It isn’t a big pile of money to be
> used for the current needs, there is no THE money.
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> If we could get people in general to realize this fact, the nature of
> political discourse would change for the better.
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