How do you like your tax money spent?

Give some examples of waste, fraud, and down right stupidity


Massachusetts judge rules for inmate's sex-change surgery - CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/04/health/massachusetts-sex-change-surgery-inmate/index.html?hpt=hp_t3)

An amazing article of waste, just a damn disgrace.

This is just a fine example how gov. is just too big and has too much of our money.

I laugh at the empathy the judge and the commonwealth display with the ruling. Never mind the fact this MAN was found guilty of killing his wife and serving a life sentence...poor guy. I would stipulate, ok you can have the procedure only if he pays for the entire operation. No way the state should pay for this, its criminal.

No way the state should pay for this, its criminal.

Agree. Unless it's a life saving procedure, I'm 100% against the state (or federal) government paying for this.

Give him a pu$$y and then throw him in a cell with 50 guys serving a life.

close your eyes for a moment and imagine what this country would be like if laws/policies/etc. were based on common sense

This part blew my mind:

Chief Judge Mark L. Wolf ruled that sex reassignment surgery is the "only adequate treatment" for Kosilek, and "that there is no less intrusive means to correct the prolonged violation of Kosilek's Eighth Amendment right to adequate medical care."

This is Amendment 8 - Cruel and Unusual Punishment: "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."

How did the state violate Koslek's 8th amendment rights? "Adequate medical care" seems like a major reach for something so... elective. By elective I mean the surgery, not even arguing whether gender preference is really elective or not.

Trying to think of an example on how ridiculous this "ruling" is. If a prisoner suffers psychological problems from low self esteem because of his/her looks they were born with, does the state violate their 8th amendment rights by denying them plastic surgery?

In either case, sex change or facial surgery, even if one makes the case it would improve the prisoner's condition, how does the state violate their 8th amendment rights by NOT providing the surgery?

Am I missing something here, or is Chief Judge Mark L. Wolf totally senile or insane at this point?

Morning-after pills available at 13 NYC schools - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/morning-pills-available-13-nyc-schools-101419990.html)

what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After another Redskins win this isn't the thread to lift my spirits.

:(

If only we had a thread where we could post amusing pictures......

CNN Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t1#/video/us/2013/04/01/tsr-marsh-million-dollar-bus-stop.cnn)

There you go Northern Virginia, this is why people say we need to cut the government and the spending.

First, the transportation director of Arlington county should be taken, beaten in the street and hung. Second, the person oking half the money in the federal grant should face the same fate. This is effing crazy, this is why tax payers are fed up.