Get your priorities right
This expression was one of my parents’ favourite admonitions of my teenage years. Not that it ever had any positive effect then or now, as evidenced by the fact I have spent the whole weekend hanging out and having a good time, and posting flickr photos of course, rather than dealing with my looming and immutable deadlines.
But, why should I get mine right when the US government can do such a poor job of it? Go here and input the amount of money you paid in tax last year to see how the government is going to spent it, with predictable results….
Someone more cleverer than me should do one of these for Australia: surely all you need to find out is the perecentage of the budget spent in the various areas, add in a bit of Javascript or somesuch and you’d be done. In fact, I would love someone to create one especially for mobile devices so that I could —– — – — — of the next person who wants to have a whinge to me about how they’re tired of paying all their taxes to dole bludgers and layabouts.
And yes, you are more than welcome to play hangman to work out the missing letters in that statement…..
