When you don’t have to work for your money or worry about where it comes from you can do lots of cool stuff, like build a giant $200,000 ant in a town with only 580 people! Unbelievable.
What cool stuff would you do if you were in charge of a small town and had $200,000 of someone else’s money to blow (aside from giving it back to them of course, that would be insanity!)?
What about the healthcare and education for the children?
Eww You need to start thinking like a politician.
Yeah, you don’t have to worry about healthcare or education until it goes horribly wrong…then you can blame the market or just lobby for more funding!
If you have $200,000 cash in hand, it’s all about how you can blow it in a way that makes your voters happy in the very short term. Who are they going to vote for: the guy who built them a giant ant that, perhaps, attracts a few tourists to the town each year (hint: helps ‘small business’) or the guy who was just ‘doing his job’ and built a school?
You can’t lobby the government for more money to build a giant ant but you sure can for schools and healthcare when the “market fails” (damn those evil capitalists taking advantage of the poor by providing them with services they want at a price they’re willing to pay)!
Was this in the US? I wonder if this is paid for with stimulus money. Creating gigantic ants is clearly the best way to create jobs.
Actually, I would say this is a good thing.
Imagine if all the money we paid in taxes was not used to ‘improve education’ or ‘create jobs’.
We would lose 15-40% of our salaries, but at least enjoy the benefit of free markets, as opposed to today, when we lose 15-40% of our salaries but do not enjoy free markets.
I say more giant ants!
Build bombs and blow shit up. [:P]
$200,000?
Rent space for a strip club. All dancers must be staunch anti-statists.