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A 12-Step Plan on the Budget | |
By ScottBittle on May 20th, 2008
When it comes to the federal budget, a 12-step program works pretty well as an analogy. After all, financially speaking, the federal government engages in consistently self-destructive behavior. Even when the government makes progress, our leaders are prone to falling off the fiscal-responsibility wagon. So it's not surprising that The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget adopted that idea for its US Budget Watch initiative. Have a look at their Twelve Principles for Fiscal Responsibility -- and note that the first principle is admitting we have a problem. 1 comment on this entry
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Re: A 12-Step Plan on the Budget
Our country is facing economic crisis and the government is affected! So, the government leaders are thinking of ways to solve the problem. Newspapers headlines are mostly about the company bankruptcy and closure, laying off of employees and the likes. Of course the citizens are in panic ion losing their work. Work is often thought as the definition of what makes a person. Your work is thought to be what you ultimately are – but how silly is that? (What if you service septic tanks for a living?) The author, philosopher, historian, and mathematician Bertrand Russell once wrote an essay called In Praise of Idleness, and we often forget the simple pleasure of writing a poem or doing crosswords in the paper, or reading someone's memoirs, if it's interesting enough. (The recollections of a business software engineer wouldn't count – boring!) In modern life, we too often are caught up in work or whether or not to get an online payday loan, and forget to take time to do nothing.