From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics
Subject: Re: Full Self Driving Air Traffic Control Goes To Mars
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 09:38:26 -0800
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2025-02-13 09:05, Skeeter wrote:
> In article <vol73r$2vt9q$1@dont-email.me>, nuh-uh@nope.com says...
>>
>> On 2025-02-13 07:55, Skeeter wrote:
>>> In article <vojvh2$2p5qm$1@dont-email.me>, nuh-uh@nope.com says...
>>>>
>>>> On 2025-02-12 20:13, pothead wrote:
>>>>> On 2025-02-13, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 2025-02-12 18:32, pothead wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2025-02-12, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 2025-02-12 05:40, pothead wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 2025-02-10, NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Sun, 09 Feb 2025 10:04:14 -0500, NoBody <NoBody@nowhere.com>
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 14:01:45 -0500, -hh
>>>>>>>>>>> <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On 2/8/25 11:40 AM, AlleyCat wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Sat, 8 Feb 2025 05:24:24 -0500, -hh says...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Compared to Biden's EV initiative where $7.5 billion
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> dollars has built ~10 chargers?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Do you research *why* before making that complaint?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Why?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> The chargers were promised... the money was taken.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> WHERE are the chargers?
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> If you'd done your research, you'd know.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Show us (if you can).
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Well?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The point is in 2021 the money, $7.5 billion, was allocated to build
>>>>>>>>> a charging network across the US. So how many were built in the
>>>>>>>>> subsequent 3 years?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> THAT is the point.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> P.S. This is the kind of waste and government mismanagement that
>>>>>>>>> DOGE is uncovering.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> That money was allocated doesn't mean it was SPENT.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> That is the point.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Did I have claim it was spent?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 'This is the kind of waste and government mismanagement that DOGE is
>>>>>> uncovering.'
>>>>>
>>>>> Yep.
>>>>> Money that could have been allocated to something useful, like taking care of
>>>>> the people of NC who are still living in tents while illegal migrants are staying
>>>>> in 4 star hotels in NYC.
>>>>
>>>> How much did that actually happen?
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> That doesn't apply until the money is SPENT and you can look at what you
>>>>>> got for the money.
>>>>>
>>>>> See above.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Read what I wrote.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So again how many chargers did Biden build in ~3 years?
>>>>>> How is that relevant?
>>>>>
>>>>> Because there is $7.5 billion dollars allocated and thus held up for 3 years.
>>>>> So what happened in 3 years?
>>>>
>>>> You think that THAT is what happens, doofus?
>>>>
>>>> That if someone budgets to spend money over YEARS, that they put that
>>>> money in a bank account and they don't touch it?
>>>>
>>>> I knew you were dim, but I had no idea.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> How much was actually SPENT to get the chargers that were built?
>>>>>
>>>>> See above.
>>>>>
>>>>> You can't win this one Alan.
>>>>> Give it up.
>>>> Because you're too stupid to know how budgets for large projects work.
>>>
>>> So how many did they build in 3 years? Remember that?
>>
>> I don't know.
>>
>> How much money was actually SPENT?
>
> spin spin spin
How is that spin?
If you're examining the success of a program, you need to compare what
you GOT...
...with what you SPENT.