| The Alan Parsons Project – A Dream Within a Dream Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"to which as yet I have found it absolutely impossible to adapt to language" is what is spoken, but it's a misquote (bad grammar as well) It should be "to which as yet I have found it absolutely impossible to adapt language" (note the missing "to") It's a common error... |
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| Queensrÿche – Empire Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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There seems to be a problem here separating politics from the relatively simple math of the song, so I'll try again in the hopes that you'll read this and actually try to understand. 1. >> In fiscal year 1986-87, local, state, and federal governments spent a combined total of 60.6 million dollars on law enforcement. I don't buy this for a second. Is this making the claim that in the entire US, in 1986-1987, only $60.6 million was spent on law enforcement? I'll bet NYC had a bigger budget all by itself. Let's look at that. If the average cop made, say $40,000 a year, then there would be only enough money to pay 1500 of them. That ridiculous! NYC alone has more cops. Strike ONE. 2. >> Federal law enforcement expenditures ranked last in absolute dollars, OK, I'll buy this, the Feds spend less total money on LE than all the US cities, counties and states combined. 3. >> and accounted for only 6% of all federal spending. Um, now it get messy. The feds spent approx US$1,000,000,000,000 per year at that point in history (look it up). If, as the song indicates, spent 6% of its budget on LE, then that would be $60,000,000,000. But that amount is ONE THOUSAND times what QR said was spent for the entire nation (line 1 above) Strike TWO.. 4. >> By way of comparison, the federal government spent $24 million more on space exploration, and 43 TIMES more on national defense and international relations than the law enforcement. Here QR makes the claim that the Feds spent, on defense and space, 43 times what it spent on LE. In line 3 above we see that QR says the feds spent 60,000,000,000 (6% of its $1,000,000,000,000 budget). So, 43 times that = 2,580,000,000,000 which biger thatn the budget we started with. Strike THREE! This is pure bunk. |
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| Queensrÿche – Empire Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I don't think I'm "missing a few points", but it seems you missed my point. QR is mudslinging with bogus numbers, trying to justify the Federal government spending even MORE taxpayer money. Forget the 60.6 million or whatever. Which I don't believe anyway. Something tells me that a few cities in the US would have spent more than 60million in one year. But forget that... Can you explain how the Fed could spend 43 times more on something on which it is already spending 6% of its budget? Can't be done. |
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| Pink Floyd – The Great Gig in the Sky Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Heh, ignorance? dieing, stonner, widdow ? Get a dictionary man! |
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| Scorpions – Send Me An Angel Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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>>morning star is, after all,Lucifer That depends... it can mean Jesus; it can mean the planet Venus; it can be a weapon (a spiked mace); the list goes on... |
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| Queensrÿche – Empire Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Generally, I like the Empire album. However in this song, unless I hear it incorrectly, the math just doesn't add up. >> Federal law enforcement expenditures... >> accounted for only 6% of all federal spending. OK, so it accounted for approximately 6% of all Federal spending. I'll buy that. But the song goes on to say: >> By way of comparison, the federal government >> spent ... 43 TIMES more on national defense >> and international relations than on law >> enforcement. How can they spend 43 times as much as 6% of the total? That would mean they spent 258% of their total budget on defense and international relations, which of course is impossible. In addition the original quote suggests that 6% of the Federal budget is too little (by use of the word "only"). Well, the federal gov't was not supposed to be involved in too much "law enforcement". International relations and defense are, however, activities they ARE to be involved in. IMO, the drivel at the end of the song is just liberal propaganda trying to make the case for bigger federal government... the last thing we all need. -Mike |
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