I have a book titled Pissin’ In The Snow And Other Ozark Folktales.
Here’s an excerpt in Google Books that is the original joke/story dating from the very late 1880-90s.
Scroll down to the table of contents, you can read the original story.
I remember that from the Nixon administration. But the original version of the joke was collected decades before that by Vance Randolph, published as Pissing in the Snow: and Other Ozark Folktales. It wasn’t published until 1976, because it was the dirty-joke collection, but the material had been collected back in the 1920s–30s.
Make that three. I thought about it when I saw the Nixon joke and was trying to remember the name when I scrolled on and saw I was already double ninja’d. That was long, long ago. The only other joke I remember off hand from it ended with someone yelling in a native american language “Wrong hole!” Good times.
What, a geranium? I’m trying to come up with the logistics of literally moving a whole factory and even if you didn’t want to take the opportunity to upgrade equipment it’s what my Eco teacher called “an interesting exercise in stupidity”. But I suspect there really are people out there who think that ‘they’ literally “moved the plants to India” (or, in this case, Korea).
It’s not a question of paying bills here, it’s bribery and/or showering his friends with free money from the government.
Because food stamps are squandering the public’s tax money on the undeserving but graft is all gravy, baby.
I’m not sure how much the government pays toward the inauguration. I’ve seen references that suggest that some of it is paid for by donors, like the campaigns. That said, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s covered by financing or disclosure rules. I wouldn’t put it past Trump to channel money to friends to get it from one account to another.
All the parties, concerts and festivities are paid for with private donations raised by the inaugural committee. The taxpayers foot the bill for the actual swearing-in ceremony and the increased security required for all events.
The controversy over the Trump inauguration is explained here.
In essence, they raised a lot of money, mostly from corporate donors seeking favor with the new administration. In fact, they raised more money than any other inaugural committee in history. And the events were kind of sparse, very little “A” list talent and only 3 inaugural balls instead of the typical 10.
The committee had publicly promised to donate leftover funds to charity and watchdog groups soon noticed that no donations to charity were made. That said, it seems like the legal requirements regarding the use of inaugural donations are kind of non-existent ( they can’t be donated to campaign but that’s about the only restriction) and it’s not clear to me if there would be anything illegal about Trump just keeping the extra money. But it would be bad optics.
It might be worth noting that indicted money launderer Rick Gates paid a prominent role on the inaugural committee. And now that he’s speculated to be singing like a canary — I wonder if he’s going to expose anything about this issue.
I agree that something stinks to high heaven about the inauguration…but it appears to mainly be a mechanism for transferring obscene amount of money from well-connected fat cat donors to well-connected fat cat vendors.
Hey! They needed to spend all that money because it was the biggest crowd in Washington-- ever! The cost of security, sunscreen for the security people, porta-potties, toidy paper for the porta-potties, drug-sniffing dogs, treats for the drug sniffing dogs… thatsa lotta moolah.
