Behold, approximately one bazillion copies of President Obama's completely non-binding budget proposal rolling off the Government Printing Office presses today. According to a 2012 Washington Post story, "[p]aper copies still are delivered to members of Congress, federal agencies and depository libraries across the country," even though the entire thing is available online for free.
What a colossal waste of paper, ink, and energy to print it. Granted, I can't read that much text online before my eyes cross and give me a headache, but there has to be a way to get it onto a Kindle - I'm guessing few even read it all the way through anyway.
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
DO NOT READ, THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR GOV'T.- IT MAY BE DISTURBING.
Or something to that effect.
At least it gives the post office some business shipping all this paper around the country.
Keep up the good work GPO! Ever heard of email and PDF files?
If you want to be, press one. If you want not to be, press 2
Republicans are red, democrats are blue, neither of them, gives a flip about you.
I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you.
"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the Government take care of him; better take a closer look at the American Indian." - Henry Ford
Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges; When the Republic is at its most corrupt the laws are most numerous. - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
They print it so that there will be an outrage-of-the-day over a few thousand bucks...(Which takes some people's minds off of how much money is wasted by defense contractors and no-bid contracts every hour...One hour of which exceeds the cost of printing the budget.)
