Quote:
Originally Posted by ken0042
Maybe "penny wise- pound foolish" is quite the simplification; but it does hold true. We have a premier with a spending problem, and a province with a debt/ deficit problem. It isn't about the $45K when the province has an annual budget in the 10's of billions. It's about how she spends money, and how she wastes money. If she wastes money on travel; where else does she waste? And how do the hundreds of people who work under her also spend their work budgets? (And carry that on through policies, etc.)
|
Just for the record, "penny wise, pound foolish" stands for the principle opposite to the one you are using it for.
__________________
"Life of Russian hockey veterans is very hard," said Soviet hockey star Sergei Makarov. "Most of them don't have enough to eat these days. These old players are Russian legends."
|