Ok..., so we hear a lot about the way that government wastes money and I can't help but thinking that if they would just cut everybody a cheque - for the Yankees that would be 'check' and for newer Yankees 'chek' or 'chk' - it just may be the more prudent choice. Look at it this way, out of thirty million citizens a good chunk of those with good ideas but a lack of resources might just take the cheque and put it to good use like starting a business and hiring people and - Heaven forbid - paying taxes. Of course the ones that own shipping companies and such would likely just take the cheque and buy an expensive bottle of Scotch or something equally extravagant. Myself..., I would likely buy a six-pack of cheap beer - $4.99 - cheaper than bottled water for Heavens sake - and throw the rest at the credit card companies.

Now here's some 'real simple math' for you. Let's take the widely tossed around figure of one billion dollars for the 'gun registry'. Depending on where you're at that 'one billion' could mean 'a thousand million' or 'a million million' but I'm going to go with the 'thousand million' figure. Now lets say that the government in their infinite wisdom decides to hire ten thousand extra law enforcement officials for a year. That would give these newly employed law enforcement officers a fairly decent wage of a hundred thousand dollars a year. Of course that billion dollars would only last a year for that price and it would have to exclude all the incidentals such as 'training' and 'benefits' and such. None the less, that should put a severe dent in the criminal use of firearms don't you think?

Anyhow..., that's something to ponder the next time you open your daily newspaper or log into Bourqe to check - and that's not cheque this time - the latest headlines. Just take the billion dollars from the gun registry or the hundred and fifty from the 'Millenium Fund' or the millions spent on the lost cause of 'bilingualism' and the further billions in blatant waste and spread it around to the needy instead of the cronies. That would be the thing to do in the "Spirit of the Season' don't you think?

Check back regularly, no telling what little nugget of gnarled knowledge or whimsical wisdom you're going to unearth here but I will guarantee it won't be a 'politically squandered nugget'.

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