nancylebov: (green leaves)
nancylebov ([personal profile] nancylebov) wrote2012-06-22 01:42 pm

Snark of the day

From Yglesias:
What you do with the contracting is that instead of handing money over to unionized public sector workers who hand some of the money back to Democratic Party politicians, you hand the money over to a contracting firm that hands some of the money back to Republican Party politicians.


Link thanks to The Agitator.

[identity profile] subnumine.livejournal.com 2012-07-07 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
An elementary instance of the tragedy of the commons. If people can get away with not paying for something, many of them will; my local classical station gets support from 10% of its listeners. Yet the 90% like it enough to tune in.