Indeed, indeed, and the pond must ask, together with the Caterists, why others can't live within the modest means allocated to them ...
There are many fine examples of how it can be done ...
And now let us move on to one of the great moral challenges of our time, confronted by a cynical nation ...
Indeed, indeed, what gets the juices flowing is a fine grant ...
Now there might be a few cynics in this cynical nation that might suggest that one good way to begin balancing the books would be to save a cool quarter million in grants, instead of wasting it on a bunch of climate denialists who steadfastly refuse to admit that it might be one of the issues which should get the juices flowing, but that would be utterly unfair.
How else - without benefit of grant - would we be able to get constant hectoring and lecturing from righteous Caterists?
Speaking of wasteful spending, perhaps we could squeeze in another grant, and with a bit of luck, another will be heading the MRC way next January or February ...
Indeed, that's just the right way to get talk started about encouraging volunteerism and philanthropy, and the pond has to admit that the example of the MRC refusing another grant will be a sublime example of volunteerism and philanthropy at its finest and noblest.
This is surely the way forward, a way to produce strong not-for-profit organisations and resilient local communities. Why with any luck, individuals will come together to form a family of like research centre minds, build a community opposed to grants, and ultimately lead the country to a balanced budget and a planet where global warming is completely out of control ...
Such are the everyday dreams and hopes of the pond, passionately dedicated to strengthening the social fabric, by faithfully transcribing the thoughts emanating from Canberra ...
"For the thinkers in the Coalition partyroom.."
ReplyDeleteHaha that guy. "Moral passion," he's a laugh a minute. What a quarter mil will buy, eh? Haha, priceless.
Triumphant economic rationalism MRC style, or how a Caterist makes cents: $245,279.10 / 525600 minutes per year = Only $0.47 a laugh!
I just love Wingnut "debt" hysteria, don't you ? And what happens when a nation's debt grows too big ? Why, such a nation simply declares a "sovereign default" ( a fancy title for going bankrupt).
ReplyDeleteA brief sortie via Google found me this: http://www.dailysabah.com/economy/2015/06/28/83-countries-went-bankrupt-in-200-years
The tl:db (too long:didn't bother) extract is as follows:
"Although not commonly known, the U.S. has declared bankruptcy five times, since its foundation. Once it could not pay its foreign debts, and four times could it not pay its internal debts. These bankruptcies had resulted from financial crises in the banking sector, the first of which was in 1790, and the last of which was in 1933.
Germany, on the other hand, went bankrupt eight times in the last 215 years. Currently the world's fourth and the EU's biggest economy, Germany had gone bankrupt last in 1939 and 1948, due to the second World War. But, the country is now an economic success due to its tight monetary policies.
The world's fifth biggest economy, the U.K., went bankrupt four times in total, the last of which was in 1932.Although not commonly known, the U.S. has declared bankruptcy five times, since its foundation. Once it could not pay its foreign debts, and four times could it not pay its internal debts. These bankruptcies had resulted from financial crises in the banking sector, the first of which was in 1790, and the last of which was in 1933.
Germany, on the other hand, went bankrupt eight times in the last 215 years. Currently the world's fourth and the EU's biggest economy, Germany had gone bankrupt last in 1939 and 1948, due to the second World War. But, the country is now an economic success due to its tight monetary policies.
The world's fifth biggest economy, the U.K., went bankrupt four times in total, the last of which was in 1932."
What is 'moral' about taking money from the poor and giving it to the rich?
ReplyDeleteI think often that some of our politicians and their media supporters would have made fine workhouse Beadles in Dickension England.
What is wrong with these people?
Miss pp
I love that "wisdom of crowds" justifies lowering debt at any social cost but that same wisdom is ignored on SSM; Climate Change, Racial Abuse..... e.e. when it is odds with consevative politics
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