# Americans seem determined to be stupid, now and in the future

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**Created:** [October 7, 2021, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-seem-determined-to-be-stupid-now-and-in-the-future/952038 "2021-10-07T00:11:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 7, 2021, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/americans-seem-determined-to-be-stupid-now-and-in-the-future/952038/6 "2021-10-07T10:26:07Z")

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> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#):
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> A waste of taxpayer money, and IMO likely by a lot of the same people who bitch and moan loudest about what they perceive as wasteful government spending

They got a bucket of cash, for a cause they don’t believe exists, from a government they didn’t vote for, whose values they don’t share and who probably stole the money anyway and the rest came from liberal elites and that’s how they like the irony cooked.

To spend it on anything but hookers, blow and football would be damm unAmerican.

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