Knowing Wordforge, who would like to be the first to claim that it is a burden on American taxpayers? That 50 years is enough and YOU don't want to pay for it any longer. That Obama should pay the gas bill himself instead of making America foot the bill. That the money for the eternal flame could be put to better use. Come on you haters....hate on JFK!
Um, there's already a hate on JFK thread, and not the usual suspects. But I do think your suggestions will prove popular with more than a few folks around these parts.
Anyway, when I saw the flame I thought of Wordforge. How many members here feel that nothing is right with the government. I mean, since Obama and family are draining the US Treasury we must find ways to cut back. Wordforgers have no room for charity in their hearts. Let the Kennedy family pay for the flame. Hmph!
I remember seeing the eternal flame on my 8th grade school field trip to the east coast. It went out four or five times just in the time we were there but they had an electric lighter automatically relight it each time it went out.
They should let hobos get warm and cook their cans of beans around it.....since Kennedy was all about helping the poor/social justice/etc.
Sorry man, gave up hatin' as a New Years resolution and I feel so much better about life in general. Besides, given the choice I'd just use one of my wells to supply it.
Then what did JFK do for hobos? If the answer is nothing, now is his chance via that flame......from BEYOND THE GRAVE! BTW the flame is built on top of an old Indian burial ground, so they keep extinguishing it to fuck with us.
Nah, the government spends waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much money on useless stuff, (drug war, war on terror, NSA spying, defense budget, Dept. of Education, etc., etc.) the last thing I'm worried about is JFK's eternal flame. Now, if it were Johnson's or Nixon's, then I might get upset.
Consulting wikipedia about the flame going out: That makes me feel oddly better about the world. Anyway, the expense of the flame is pretty trivial as far as Presidential honorials go. Sure, none of them are worth the money, and sure JFK is hideously overrated, but anyone who doesn't have an infinite well of outrage at his disposal really can't be bothered to worry or complain about this particular instance of silliness.
Hey hey now... what's the flame's carbon footprint? How much co2 has it spewed into the atmosphere in its 50 years of burning? How many polar bears d'ya think it's killed? 1? 3? 7? 12? JFK, Polar bear killer. Who wudda thunkit. Pleez, think of the polar bears.
