Did you pay your taxes? Good! Cause we just spent it!

[myrobbins7]

Nothing Left to Cut! California Spends $205,000 to Move $15 Shrub.

Reeling from devastating budget cuts driven by austerity extremists, California in 2010 still managed to spend $205,075 to move a plant. The manzanita shrub was on a median strip near the Golden Gate Bridge, in the way of a highway project that was partially funded by the ARRA Stimulus.

Nothing Left to Cut! California Spends $205,000 to Move $15 Shrub. - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

The taxpayers should be proud.

 

[PKT_VOL]

It will never cease to amaze me how people want to give more of their money and responsibility to government. If government was a person, they would be in straight jacket.

 

[myrobbins7]

It will never ceases to amaze me how people want to give more of their money and responsibility to government. If government was a person, they would be in straight jacket.

I couldn't agree more.

 

[rjd970]

No worries, taxing more should cover this.

 

[volinbham]

So it growing in the median of a highway is considered "growing in the wild" but in a nursery it's not? Un-f'n-believable.

 

[NEO]

u just made a bad day for me get even worse.

gee.