Well if all the winter wonderland lovers aren't head over heels this morning, the only suggestion left would be a one-way ticket to Nome. Crazy weather. Nothing else to say about it at this point.
Crazy is an often used word in today's world. A whole lot of crazy things seem to happen.
Just an observation I guess.
With the new year upon us, and the budget season apparently shifting into full gear, there is a point we all need to keep in mind. As someone brighter than me once noted some time ago, Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but they are not entitled to their own facts.
When it comes to the money folks, facts are what they are. How you should spend it is a matter of opinion, how much you have to spend, the actual bottom line, is not. Some confuse that point with the opinion of what you should spend.
If you clear $X per week, you have $X dollars to spend. That is a simple fact.
Every dollar that is spent on one thing, is a dollar less you can spend on something else.
Facts are going to be extremely significant this year. Facts will as always be used to support opinions on matters. This is of course how we get people to make decisions, by pointing out facts that justify the decision. Well I should say this is how decisions should be made.
You might ask why are the facts going to be significant this year. Shouldn't the facts be significant every year? Yes the facts should, but the facts seldom are. Throw in the motherhood and apple pie heart tugging arguments, play on the fears of the people, promise them a rainbow, or better yet a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, and well ... sometimes the facts simply do not get the relevance the same deserve.
Everyone is indeed entitled to their own opinion. Certainly one can understand and expect a certain amount of puffing, and perhaps omitting those facts that don not support the opinion. Where the line needs to be drawn however is when the facts are raised which do not favor an opinion, is the refusal to accept those facts.
Argue all you want about the implications of the application of a fact, but don't argue about the fact itself.
The whole point of the above will become a bit clearer, probably sooner rather than later. In the mean time, I think today is a definite stay in the house and veg day.
Be safe.
And just because we have $X to spend, does that mean we ought to spend $X? Or should we try for a moment to live in the reality that says tomorrow might bring an unexpected expense, like my car battery that died unexpectedly yesterday? Cuts have been made outside of government for years now. If someone hasn't seen it, then they haven't been paying attention. Surely a household besides mine has had to cut back on spending.
ReplyDeleteAs a single voice, I won't say what to cut. But I certainly understand something is going, and I applaud others who live in that reality.
Well the town employees kept getting raises and there work force stayed unchanged while the rest of us were getting 0% or cut backs. Their budgets were always loaded with extras until fincom starting paring them back the last 6 years.This is indicated by less free cash they have to spend,less road work done,etc.Bottom line is town meeting will have some real decisions to make because the cash is not there to spend.
ReplyDeleteYears ago large families lived in one-bathroom homes. Everyone in the family was able to wash and 'go' as needed. Then someone came up with the idea of multiple bathroom homes. Now days, even though the average family size has decreased, no one wants to return to the one-bathroom concept. There's not a necessity for multiple bathrooms, we've just become accustom to the convenience.
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