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Most Grauniad (sp intended)readers are paid out of the public purse.
Never had to meet a payroll or think about ROI's of any description. Completely paid out of taxes, they live in a nirvana of zero thought and the public purse. Good pensions too!
Good place to go if you want a job as :
Lesbian, Gay Outreach Coordinator
Five a Day Fruit Coordinator
Real Nappy Coordinator
These are actual jobs. Really.
Educated but still thick.
All well salaried, perked and index linked pensioned.
One day the ever open public purse may get tight though.
As Al Gore says "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it".
Even if he does understand it (and I think many people don't, even if you take the trouble to explain it) what can one person do to turn it round? ... so, party on and hope somebody else can fix it!
The Kyoto global warming targets, if achieved, would mean massively less FF use ... but also a massive recession ... so which democratic government is going to propose that? Who would vote for them?
Xeroid.
Or to paraphrase "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary does not depend upon his understanding of it".
Exactly.
Xeroid.
Gore was quoting the very perceptive Upton Sinclair.
The quote is from Upton Sinclair. Lots of people have used it.