(March 31, 2014 at 2:10 am)FlyingNarwhal Wrote: They should have blocked this bill, not because of religious reasons obviously, but because it is pointless. I'm sorry, but our state legislatures do not exist for the purpose of making eight year old girls feel good and special. Every state has a bunch of pointless state symbols, with no reason for making them other than to boost some politician's poll numbers by making some idiot feel overly proud of the region he was born/lived in. And all they do is clog up the system too. Both parties in SC are just going to grandstand on their position and take up time that could be used solving real problems for an ultimately pointless designation of a fossil.
Oh please, if they didn't do stuff like this they wouldn't do anything. Consider the record of the 112th congress, just ended.
http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2012/0...-problems/
Quote:Here's all you need to know about how worthless Congress is:
Of the thousands of measures introduced in the current Congress - only 132 passed.
And about 1 in 5 of those was to approve official names for post offices.
This country is circling the drain when it comes to runaway government spending and deficits - and 20% of the bills that got through Congress were to name post offices.
The political system has broken down to the point where designating a state fossil is almost a triumph.
In Arizona...we have a State "Gun." Of course.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/2...5920110429
