maineman
Banned
so true, rune.... so true.
making decisions based upon whether something is a better "bargain" puts cost alone as the driving determination, and completely ignores value and utility. I bought a pair of Johnson and Murphy black dress shoes in 1975. They have been lovingly polished and resoled as necessary over the years. If my feet aren't in them, cedar shoe trees are. they are still a lovely and comfortable pair of shoes that I wear often nearly forty years later. I paid top dollar for those shoes, no doubt. Someone who had been looking for "bargain" shoes back then could have purchased similar looking shoes for one fifth the cost, but would have replaced those same "bargain" shoes twenty times or more over the years. "Bargains" in shoes, or in government programs, are hardly ever the better option.
making decisions based upon whether something is a better "bargain" puts cost alone as the driving determination, and completely ignores value and utility. I bought a pair of Johnson and Murphy black dress shoes in 1975. They have been lovingly polished and resoled as necessary over the years. If my feet aren't in them, cedar shoe trees are. they are still a lovely and comfortable pair of shoes that I wear often nearly forty years later. I paid top dollar for those shoes, no doubt. Someone who had been looking for "bargain" shoes back then could have purchased similar looking shoes for one fifth the cost, but would have replaced those same "bargain" shoes twenty times or more over the years. "Bargains" in shoes, or in government programs, are hardly ever the better option.