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Old September 8th 18, 08:39 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
Radey Shouman
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jbeattie writes:

On Friday, September 7, 2018 at 7:52:38 AM UTC-7, Joerg wrote:
On 2018-09-04 17:15, AMuzi wrote:
On 9/4/2018 6:10 PM, Joerg wrote:
On 2018-09-03 16:10, John B. Slocomb wrote:
On Mon, 03 Sep 2018 13:45:01 -0700, Joerg

wrote:

On 2018-09-02 16:36, John B. Slocomb wrote:
On Sun, 02 Sep 2018 08:02:04 -0700, Joerg

wrote:


[ ... ]

But if you don't pay your taxes who is going to support
the homeless,
and the illegal immigrants, and the bike paths and, and,
and.

If you are going to have socialism someone's got to pay
for it.


We already pay among the highest taxes in the country.
That's enough taxes.

I see, you want bike paths, racks on buses, and all the
other free
goodies provided by the state, but you don't want to pay
for them.


See above. We already paid for them.

[...]


You California taxpayers paid for extravagant pensions, the $80billion
choo choo which doesn't run, homeless, welfare and illegal services,
fire fighting of forests which should have been logged and so on.



That's the price for a leftist government. Like it always end up.


And yet you expect the government to provide you with special bike
racks on buses. Well, I want a PONY! Why aren't my
much-larger-than-yours taxes providing me with a PONY! If government
spent less money on PERS and more on PONIES, we would all be better
off. I would also like bicycle-only facilities from my driveway to
work that are swept twice a day. Other demands are forthcoming.


You make it sound so simple. My town just instituted loaner PONIES for
all residents, and, although I'm normally a fiscal conservative I was
all in favor. Naturallly, I tried one out shortly after they were
available. Sadly I found much still to be desired.

Firstly, the PONY was much too short for a person of my stature, indeed,
my feet nearly dragged the ground. Also, in spite of his short legs,
this PONY had such long ears that I had a hard time seeing in front of
me -- an obvious safety hazard. I hoped the PONY might make up this
with a turn of speed, so I applied the crop (not town-supplied, a major
procurement faux pas, I had to requisition a piece of disused garden
hose). The PONY did not gallop, nor did he even trot, he just made the
sort of noises you might expect from a Hell demon on open mike night.

Not long into the ride we were passed by a young lady on what appeared
to be a much higher quality, private PONY, nicely proportioned, with a
curly blonde mane and a tasteful little horn in the middle of her
forehead, just like the PONIES I remember from the old country. On
seeing this, my municipal PONY perked right up, he cantered, he capered,
he continued to make horrible noises. And, regrettably, his stud tackle
grew to the point that I was afraid he might step on it (no wonder they
called him "starfish" at the stables).

I found this so embarrassing and inappropriate that I was tempted to
ditch the PONY like a San Jose dockless scooter, but, since I was raised
responsibly I whipped him right back in the other direction and turned
him in.

There you have it, yet another example of incompetent government letting
us down.

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