Garbage In, Garbage Out
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All politicians are, by definition, moral defectives.
One ubiquitous way that politicians manifest this defectiveness is by slapping their name on a dizzying variety of stuff. Highways, post offices, bureaucracy buildings — and don't forget rebate checks.
In my opinion, it's all a bunch of garbage:
That's right: The Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer Memorial Trash Can.
Put aside for the moment the fact that New York City borough presidents don't actually perform any legitimate governmental function — they are utterly impotent positions (except for theirpork "capital and expense budgets").
And put aside the question of just how egomaniacal (or ego deficient) a person would have to be to actually want to see his name on a trash can.
What about the simple fact that Scott M. Stringer didn't pay one cent for this trash can? I did. I and my neighbors. How about once, just once, having some public good or public building read something like, "Sponsored by the Taxpayers of Manhattan"? More truthful, and more modest.
But less political, so it will of course never happen.
One ubiquitous way that politicians manifest this defectiveness is by slapping their name on a dizzying variety of stuff. Highways, post offices, bureaucracy buildings — and don't forget rebate checks.
In my opinion, it's all a bunch of garbage:
That's right: The Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer Memorial Trash Can.
Put aside for the moment the fact that New York City borough presidents don't actually perform any legitimate governmental function — they are utterly impotent positions (except for their
And put aside the question of just how egomaniacal (or ego deficient) a person would have to be to actually want to see his name on a trash can.
What about the simple fact that Scott M. Stringer didn't pay one cent for this trash can? I did. I and my neighbors. How about once, just once, having some public good or public building read something like, "Sponsored by the Taxpayers of Manhattan"? More truthful, and more modest.
But less political, so it will of course never happen.
Posted by Kip on
18 September 2007
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