Subject: Re: NIH Resumes Funding of Grants
"Here is something that liberals don't understand, tax payer dollars are finding their way to fund programs that make no sense to main street, regardless of the arcane routes the dollars follow to get there." - BHM

Just because you are ignorant and have a hard time understanding the world does not mean you should automatically assume others don't as well.

Not only is your statement false, but it shows a failure to understand democracy and how democracy works and well as fails to understand what Musk is actually doing.

In the first instance, how democracy works. There are many things in the U.S. budget that I consider waste. There are also many things I don't think a funded with enough money. However, my opinion is only one opinion of hundreds of millions here in the U.S. The way federal spending is done is that there is some compromise. My representatives in government make a deal with your representatives in government and you get a little of what you want and I get a little of what I want. So what you consider waste is just something that someone else wanted and likely ended up in the budget through compromise. They got what they wanted so you could get something else. Furthermore, I notice that in the last couple of days you have often pointed to examples of waste by just pointing to a one sentence description that often has very little to do with what the program does (and more often than not contains lots of words designed to trigger you). You never seem able to take the time and educate yourself about something before reacting. You just automatically see your trigger word and it trigger outrage. You should do better. You won't often look as silly.

The second instance is that you clearly do not understand what Musk is doing. He is literally breaking things (often illegally) and causing a lot of pain for a lot of innocent people. He isn't just hunting out wasteful spending, he is destroying departments that benefit Americans. He is just relying on your ignorance not to see it. As an analogy, it is like I see a couple of ants one day in my kitchen. Later that day I make a comment to my neighbor about seeing the ants in my kitchen and tell him I am going to call an exterminator. Then my neighbor gets in his plow truck and plows through my house many times going back and forth until the whole house is knocked down. When I start yelling and screaming he turns to me and says "You don't understand that it is unhealthy to live in a house with an ant infestation. You should live with ants in your kitchen."

Rather than just find the waste (exterminate the ants), Musk is destroying things (leveling houses). It is a stupid way to look for waste.

But I am sure you are not worried. When Musk breaks something that you really care about, your political masters will blame it on Biden, or DEI, or such and you will swallow it hook line and sinker because it will confirm your beliefs.