Lately I’ve been toying with the idea of making this blog a more serious place. By more serious, I mean a place to actually air out some generally pithy (I flatter myself) thoughts. Stuff like politics, culture, marketing, user-generated content, and other geeky/business-y things that are relevant to me, here, now, that might be relevant to others out there who aren’t related to me.
On the other hand, I think maybe I’ve already set this up to be a personal blog, and I should not stretch myself, since posting regularly about nothing other than my own little world seems to be beyond me.
And then, while I’m weighing all this out in my head, I encounter something that absolutely, positively, MUST be shared.
Friends, I present to you, a 7-year summary of our government’s paper-shredding budget:
From the full article:
Federal spending on paper shredding has increased more than 600 percent since George W. Bush took office…. In 2000, the feds spent $452,807 to make unpleasant truths go away; by 2006, the “Cheney Effect” had bumped that number up to $2.9 million. And by halfway through 2007, the feds almost matched that number, with $2.7 million and counting.
If that doesn’t open your eyes to the corruption in our very own government, I don’t know what will.
So there. Today it’s serious. Tomorrow, there might be more Blingees. You just never know.
It does not follow directly that if there is more paper shredding there is more corruption–not that I don’t think there is, but it can also demonstrate that there is more government generating all that paper.