Until the Gang called "The Govt" finally takes more of what you have then you're willing to offer.

Makes perfect sense... Let's send out a few cruisers and arrest anyone out on the roads because nothing solves the problem of having someone out on the road like sending more people out on the road after them.

What a bunch of chauvinist pigs!

You really think people who choose to make a living telling others what to do would be in this line of work if they had actual brains or morals even?

Not only are they pros at taking your hard earned money but they're masters at making sure you pay more for your products with technologies that you don't even have the choice of selecting.

I was 100% positive the reserve was close to the break even, so you're on point.

Don't confuse the culture with business.

problem is... good luck getting "TV people" smart enough to sell the idea to them before they'd destroy their vision and ruin the show with their own ideas based on their "demographics"

Was in Scottsdale earlier in the week and then saw the Auction so for those who didn't, take these nuggets of info as you'd like.

MF-ing COSIGN. Distancing yourselves from that SMUT (and Bloomberg) would serve you best.

Actually, they do create something, its called entertainment. If your analogy is (and it wouldn't be a bad one) comparing the type of entertainment they sell to what Robin Leech sold in the terms of "Life styles of the Rich and famous" - the reality is, people will watch it for free but they won't (for the most part)…

Here's the problem, and I'd love proof (if you have any JF) to prove the opposite. Yes the money is being spent, but I suspect the fact are this:

Whiplash? LOL

Is this the same England that also counts Money made through Brothels and Drug Dealings as part of their GDP (Gross Domestic Product) to assure the rosiest of Economic Figures possible?

You can call it sophomoric all you want but that doesn't disguise the truth now does it? The evidence points to exactly what I just stated. It is "taken" and not freely donated.

The SUM represents waste. Unless you think the public is getting their money's worth. With that said, you're a delusional if you think money is "Given" to the Govt. It isn't given, its taken under threat and coercion or sometimes violence. Never did I say they were supposed to be profitable, so your strawman…

It's a SUM of the parts. When you take your head out of the sand, maybe you can admit some are worst than others, but rare is the one that is actually "profitable". Yeah, we'll agree to disagree over 1+1 = 2 here.

At the end of the day, the "Federal Govt" are just people. They don't have special powers, they just have laws and threats of imprisonment or guns to back up those laws. At the end of the day.... those laws are how they justify their ideas as being good ones. Suffice to say, you'd think if an idea is good enough…

and I work for one that doesn't... and know many more that are even worse. At the end of the day, the math speaks for itself.

Fair enough... but you do realize the mere statement of Govt Functioning effectively is an absurd one unless we're discussing War and Taxation. Have a wonderful day.