Driving home from work, listening to a Reverend Bleepo Abernathy rant on the Hour of Slack, a quote occurred to me:
One man’s doomsday is another man’s payday.
It seems like about 2/3 of the current news here in the USA could be something that quote applies to, be it economic meltdown and bank takeovers or bailouts, the war in Iraq as a profit center for KBR, you name it. Use it at will, I know I will be.
With Homeland Security being the newest cottage industry here close to the Beltway, and with Beltway Bandits raking it in, I’m here to say that truer words were never spoken.
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And there is also the corollary:
There is good money in human misery