Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: FPP Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: What's Your Favorite Government Expenditure? Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2024 19:29:36 -0400 Organization: Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn. Lines: 52 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: fredp1571@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2024 23:29:36 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="16f1497d39c0a1780973757daf9ab991"; logging-data="234188"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19aAxdABDlun0TuX7Hy/MDu" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:KBpW+TR919F1SMmhdOjql3qSF7c= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3209 On 4/3/24 2:08 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > On Apr 3, 2024 at 2:46:03 AM PDT, "FPP" wrote: > >> On 4/2/24 6:34 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>> In article , >>> shawn wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, 02 Apr 2024 14:17:57 -0700, BTR1701 wrote: >>>> >>>>> Just taking a little poll here. What is you guys' favorite part of the >>>>> recent $1.2 trillion federal spending bill? >>>>> >>>>> Is it... >>>>> >>>>> (1) $850,000 for a gay senior citizen home in Massachusetts; or >>>> >>>> Why do they need a home just for gay senior citizens? There must be >>>> something else going on. >>> >>> And why should do I, as a California resident, pay for it? If >>> Massachusetts needs gay senior citizens homes, let Massachusetts pay for >>> them. >>> >>>>> (2) $15,000,000 for Egyptian college tuitions; or >>>>> >>>>> (3) $400,000 for a group that helps teens hide their gender from their >>>>> parents; or >>>> >>>> Given the way some parents act I can see this being needed. >>> >>> Regardless of whether it's needed, why is this something the federal >>> government should pay for? If it's so necessary, let the local community >>> fund it. >> >> Is it illegal for the Federal government to pay for it? Is it >> constitutional? > > Helping troon teens deceive their parents is not one of the enumerated powers > of the federal government in Article I, Section 8. > > Then it's a good thing you just made that up now, and isn't real. -- "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind." - OC Bible 25B.G. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ek8kap93bmk0q5w/D%20U%20N%20E%20Part%20II.jpg?dl=0 Gracie, age 6. https://www.dropbox.com/s/0es3xolxka455iw/BetterThingsToDo.jpg?dl=0