Whenever we hear someone declaim"we shouldn't spend $$$$ (or even cents) on xxxx because we have so many needs here at home" - judge the merit of this emission of verbiage as follows: Does the speaker in fact actually want to spend $$ on xxxx? Does the speaker actually really give a damn about xxxx? Most of the time, the speaker doesn't …
Whenever we hear someone declaim"we shouldn't spend $$$$ (or even cents) on xxxx because we have so many needs here at home" - judge the merit of this emission of verbiage as follows:
Does the speaker in fact actually want to spend $$ on xxxx? Does the speaker actually really give a damn about xxxx?
Most of the time, the speaker doesn't give half a hoot about xxxx. Especially if xxxx involves trying to help someone who is not the speaker. In fact, the speaker most often doesn't even mean "xxxx" when he says "xxxx". He really means "yyyy" where "yyyy" is short for "me-me-me-me".
America spends more than $30B a year on pet food and a huge multiple of that on garbage to cram into its own pie holes... $7B on potato chips... $65B on soft drinks ...
Stop at any gas station and watch the parade of high-BMI customers waddling out of the emporium clutching giant gulps of diabetes juice and bags of salt-laden HFCS infused carbohydrates.
Of course there are real needs. Water, for instance. Now there's a basic human necessity. Humans can go many days, even weeks without food, but water is a day to day requirement. That's definitely an "xxxx" thing, right?
Americans spend about $9B per year on bottled water. The average price of bottle water at a store is about $1.50 for 20 ounces; that's 1.26 per pound. My water utility bill last month cost $0.0012 per pound. The bottle costs 1,132 times as much as my tap water does!
But of course, it's outrageous that the government is so imprudent and wasteful with its money. The government should take a cue from hard-working Americans and spend frugally, they way they do.
In a nation where these are the actual expenditure preferences , the-greater-needs at-home line should be taken seriously only on a carefully vetted case by case basis.
Whenever we hear someone declaim"we shouldn't spend $$$$ (or even cents) on xxxx because we have so many needs here at home" - judge the merit of this emission of verbiage as follows:
Does the speaker in fact actually want to spend $$ on xxxx? Does the speaker actually really give a damn about xxxx?
Most of the time, the speaker doesn't give half a hoot about xxxx. Especially if xxxx involves trying to help someone who is not the speaker. In fact, the speaker most often doesn't even mean "xxxx" when he says "xxxx". He really means "yyyy" where "yyyy" is short for "me-me-me-me".
America spends more than $30B a year on pet food and a huge multiple of that on garbage to cram into its own pie holes... $7B on potato chips... $65B on soft drinks ...
Stop at any gas station and watch the parade of high-BMI customers waddling out of the emporium clutching giant gulps of diabetes juice and bags of salt-laden HFCS infused carbohydrates.
Of course there are real needs. Water, for instance. Now there's a basic human necessity. Humans can go many days, even weeks without food, but water is a day to day requirement. That's definitely an "xxxx" thing, right?
Americans spend about $9B per year on bottled water. The average price of bottle water at a store is about $1.50 for 20 ounces; that's 1.26 per pound. My water utility bill last month cost $0.0012 per pound. The bottle costs 1,132 times as much as my tap water does!
But of course, it's outrageous that the government is so imprudent and wasteful with its money. The government should take a cue from hard-working Americans and spend frugally, they way they do.
In a nation where these are the actual expenditure preferences , the-greater-needs at-home line should be taken seriously only on a carefully vetted case by case basis.
Thank you. I feel like I have to say something like this (but not as eloquently) daily.