Comments on: A Spending Plan that Deserves Five and the Game http://thebuffalobean.com/2009/11/30/a-spending-plan-that-deserves-five-and-the-game/ Conservative News and Commentary from Western New York Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:01:54 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Allovimo http://thebuffalobean.com/2009/11/30/a-spending-plan-that-deserves-five-and-the-game/comment-page-1/#comment-5625 Allovimo Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:04:57 +0000 http://thebuffalobean.com/?p=644#comment-5625 Okay, I had a feeling this wasn't going to be worth much judging by this sentence: "It’s the greatest thing ever, duh, much less sport." Grammatically that doesn't even make sense, so I pretty much knew what I was dealing with before I got into this. However, I kept reading in the hopes something would ring true. Alas, nothing. What I find really entertaining is that you're complaining about the use of "public funds" to sponsor an outdoor hockey game when the only public funds I read about in your whole argument was the $75,000. Everything else--by your own admission, no less--is privately funded. Take that $75,000 away and the game would still go on. It wouldn't have made that much of a difference, but it was nice of the government to show confidence and solidarity in a mission that might not benefit the Syracuse Crunch at all (other than getting the free publicity from "writers" like you complaining about it). Last time I checked in with the situation NY is in, sports teams were pretty low on the list in terms of what is causing problems. How about the money being wasted by our elected officials on both sides, day after day, in sessions that aren't making a difference because they refuse to compromise? What about that issue? I would also think pork barrel spending, the ridiculous DESTINY albatross, almost all of NYC, and about a thousand other things would be up higher. So let's call a spade a spade here: all you're doing is using the outdoor hockey platform as an excuse to dump all over Patterson and Schumer. You wanna do that, hey, go right ahead. I'm guessing you don't really need an excuse. It just looks pretty on paper to make a big stink about something like this. But leave my team out of it. Okay, I had a feeling this wasn’t going to be worth much judging by this sentence: “It’s the greatest thing ever, duh, much less sport.” Grammatically that doesn’t even make sense, so I pretty much knew what I was dealing with before I got into this. However, I kept reading in the hopes something would ring true. Alas, nothing.

What I find really entertaining is that you’re complaining about the use of “public funds” to sponsor an outdoor hockey game when the only public funds I read about in your whole argument was the $75,000. Everything else–by your own admission, no less–is privately funded. Take that $75,000 away and the game would still go on. It wouldn’t have made that much of a difference, but it was nice of the government to show confidence and solidarity in a mission that might not benefit the Syracuse Crunch at all (other than getting the free publicity from “writers” like you complaining about it).

Last time I checked in with the situation NY is in, sports teams were pretty low on the list in terms of what is causing problems. How about the money being wasted by our elected officials on both sides, day after day, in sessions that aren’t making a difference because they refuse to compromise? What about that issue? I would also think pork barrel spending, the ridiculous DESTINY albatross, almost all of NYC, and about a thousand other things would be up higher.

So let’s call a spade a spade here: all you’re doing is using the outdoor hockey platform as an excuse to dump all over Patterson and Schumer. You wanna do that, hey, go right ahead. I’m guessing you don’t really need an excuse. It just looks pretty on paper to make a big stink about something like this. But leave my team out of it.

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