[simpits-tech] Overkill?

[Roy Coates]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Bubba wrote:

> The City of Houston recently bought a pile of the damned things for this
> group of useless city employees that do nothing but give (usually incorrect)
> directions around downtown, which is a hellhole to begin with. I'm soooo
> glad I don't live in that damned county and very little of my money goes to
> those idiots. These are also the same idiots that budgetted $11000 for
> Gatorade for employees last year. These aren't employees that work outside,
> either. The same idiots that just spent millions of dollars to build a new
> arena for a basketball team that had a perfectly good place to play already.
> I might accept it if the team had actually won something recently, but they
> haven't in damn near a decade. Same thing for the baseball team. And they
> built a stadium for a football team that won less games last year than
> nearly anyone else in the league. Morons.


The latin translation for 'politician' surely must be 'wanker'