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In the release, the city said, “This targeted effort aims to address residents’ concerns that identify stray dogs as a barrier to outdoor physical activity.” It concluded, “the Nashville Public Health Department Communities Putting Prevention To Work campaign is funded fully by the Department of Health and Human Services, as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.”
Explaining the federally-funded program, the paper said, “it wasn’t fair to ask residents to get outside and walk for fitness when they had to worry about stray dogs nipping at their heels.”
We're not talking about corruption, we're talking about ridiculous government waste in an age where people are screaming to increase taxes like it will fix the problem.The connection is tenuous at best but that doesn't make either aspect a bad idea, so what's the problem? I've never really skipped a walk because of feral dogs, hell, I didn't know there was a feral dog problem. However, I don't understand the relationship to corruption.
Sometimes is positively amazing what kind of logical contortions liberals will engage in to justify their corruptness.
I'm also saying that this type of wasteful spending is hardly important when compared with the billion dollar boondoggles in process.
Below is a recent article from the washington examiner where a federal health program targeting obesity paid for city wide spays for stray animals because they discourage people from working out. The article didn't mention how much was actually spent on the spaying itself, just that it was part of a 7.5 million dollar slushfund.
I think when we're spending so frivolously on such ridiculous things, asking america for more money is not the answer.
Obama anti-obesity
Actually, this wasteful spending is the most important. There's no easy fix to our budget problems. The idea that we could solve a trillion dollar deficit with just a handful of cuts is foolish. Both Republicans and Democrats have one-lines about taxing the rich or dissolving the Department of Education, but none of these budgets go very far in dealing with anything. I mean, even if you cut the military in half, that wouldn't solve the problem. And to cut the military in half, it's not like you can just take a knife to it. Individual programs and people would have to be identified and disbanded.
Ultimately, the only way to get our fiscal house in order is to cut a few million here and a few million there until we can close the deficit.
But why is TNR (spaying) not important? At least the money is spent domestically and results in an improvement in quality of life. I hate to say it but a million here and a million there doesn't end up being real money in context.
I'm still waiting for any proposal about getting our fiscal house in order. Both parties intend to spend, spend, spend. It's just different beneficiaries.
And a related question - have you ever heard of TNR for dogs? I haven't. Cats, yes, certainly but as far as I know with dogs it's off to the pound and the blue juice. THIS IS A REAL QUESTION.
But why is TNR (spaying) not important? At least the money is spent domestically and results in an improvement in quality of life. I hate to say it but a million here and a million there doesn't end up being real money in context.
I'm still waiting for any proposal about getting our fiscal house in order. Both parties intend to spend, spend, spend. It's just different beneficiaries.
And a related question - have you ever heard of TNR for dogs? I haven't. Cats, yes, certainly but as far as I know with dogs it's off to the pound and the blue juice. THIS IS A REAL QUESTION.
Sometimes is positively amazing what kind of logical contortions liberals will engage in to justify their corruptness.
Seems like you should quote someone then instead of addressing the entire thread.That's what I was addressing.
I'm also saying that this type of wasteful spending is hardly important when compared with the billion dollar boondoggles in process.
It's this very attitude that is the cause of the problem. They're nickle and diming us to death. 7.5 million may be a drop in the bucket to us comparatively, but this isn't an isolated incident. You have to realize there are thousands, and thousands and thousands of such instances where this kind of waste takes place. And you have to remember, this was for only ONE city!But why is TNR (spaying) not important? At least the money is spent domestically and results in an improvement in quality of life. I hate to say it but a million here and a million there doesn't end up being real money in context.
I guess that's your problem, you refer to our political system as two parties and consider there is no alternative. The libertarian party has plenty of solutions, you just don't care to hear them. Hell, Ron Paul has been screaming about drastically reducing the deficit for well over a decade now, and this is exactly why he doesn't belong in the republican party, he's a black sheep.I'm still waiting for any proposal about getting our fiscal house in order. Both parties intend to spend, spend, spend. It's just different beneficiaries.
Reducing the number of feral packs in a city is a positive, isn't it?
The connection is tenuous at best but that doesn't make either aspect a bad idea, so what's the problem? I've never really skipped a walk because of feral dogs, hell, I didn't know there was a feral dog problem. However, I don't understand the relationship to corruption.
i walk daily for exercise and have been attacked twice in the past year. my dad was attacked by a boxer wile helping me with my fence a week ago. hard to know if the dogs were feral, but i'm for spaying strays. it's a hard life for them, and it can turn into a real problem.
Are you saying that the boxer wouldn't have attacked if he had been fixed? That's absurd. The only way to stop feral dog attacks, which are hardly common anyhow, is to remove the feral dogs entirely. Spaying them won't make a difference. Go out and shoot them. But no... that would be unpopular with the public so they don't even try.
i'm arguing that the boxer might not have existed in the first place if feral dogs were fixed.
And the same can be said for conservatives. No one gets off this hook because all politicians and all groups do the same thing. "We all know" it's for the health of the women that they need an internal, invasive scan before getting an abortion, right? :roll: Who doesn't see through that kind of crap? Or are conservatives so blind they honestly can't see it when it favors their position?Sometimes is positively amazing what kind of logical contortions liberals will engage in to justify their corruptness.
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