Trees
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/community/news/weston/sfl-flbtree0118sbjan18,0,4291210.story
Apparently, Weston is going to shell out $141,000 dollars for land development. Their land development? COUNTING THE FUCKING TREES. Yeah, which is essentially sitting next to a hot chick at a bar and when she asks you what you do, you reply, “I get paid 400 bucks an hour to see how many staples are in every office and cubicle. I charge 20 bucks extra for paperclips though.”
I know all about wasting money. Believe me, if being a teenager taught me nothing besides asking myself years later why in the fuck I bought a t-shirt with a cow sexually assaulting a beaver, then thank god I went through being a teenager. On a lighter note, I want that t-shirt now. Anyway, having been a teenager, I know all about wasting money, so as far as being someone who knows how to waste money, this is another example.
But of course, what if this going to lead people to say? What do people ALWAYS say when they see a government agency wasting money? They’re going to say, “Another waste of money when it could be put to education!” Yeah, for some reason, education is the only thing in this country that has no funds. Schools and healthcare. For some reason, the government doesn’t give a shit about you when you’re 8, and they don’t care about you when you’re 80, but when you’re 18 and you can enlist and ruin your life, they will pay for your school and everything else. It’s a really bizarre cycle.
So as far as waste of money go, that’s definitely one. The reason they’re doing it-they claim-is in case another natural disaster like Hurricane Wilma occurs. That way, they know what got depleted and they know how much of it to replace. I applaud them for their idea actually.
I hope somebody tells them trees take like, 100 years to fucking grow.
m@rk
January 22, 2009 at 4:07 am
Hell, I’d count all the trees in Weston for the first three seasons of the new Doctor Who on DVD. If there was any contractor-style bidding for this job, I shudder to think of what the rejected offers might have cost.
I have an incredible idea. Every time someone complains about how there isn’t enough money being put into education, we make ‘em give us 5 bucks. Then we take all the money and send it to our new president with a note attached that says “spend this on education.”
I am a genius.
January 22, 2009 at 4:11 am
As far as what I would count trees for, I’d go with the Dr. Who sets as well, I believe the fourth is out now too.
As for your idea, it is pretty brilliant, but I’m not sure how exactly we’d send something to the President. I mean, does he even get mail or do the secret service open it in case it’s like, a bomb, or a free mail in rebate with a catch? Either way, I think it’d be a pretty good idea if we could actually do it.
m@rk