Things You Never Thought Of

"If you're blue, and you don't know where to go to

Why don't you go where fashion sits?
Puttin' on the Ritz
Different types who wear a day coat
Pants with stripes and cutaway coat, perfect fits
Puttin' on the Ritz

Dressed up like a million-dollar trouper
Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper (super duper)"*

This is from an old song, so if its unfamiliar, it's all good.  And this is also a picture at the top of this column from the guy who sang it, Fred Astaire.  You can see also see that it's from an old black and white movie.  Also Gary Cooper was a very elegant looking actor who you also probably never heard of.  But you get the picture.  People getting dressed up and going out on the town.  That's a universal in any generation, which brings us to our point here, who ever thought of doing this in Gaza?  Bet you never did.

And, the revelations are astounding!  USAID spent 50 million dollars for condoms in Gaza.  Then they spent  another 2.5 million to fund EVs in Viet Nam.  Of course there's a whole bunch of other stuff.  You can look it up too.  But we're a little constricted by space here and again, you get the picture.  Now are we the only ones thinking that the 50 million never got to Gaza?  We mean how could anyone spend 50 million dollars on condoms?  They don't cost that much and there aren't that many people in Gaza who need condoms.  Also, are we alone in wondering if the 2.5 million ever got to anyone in Viet Nam?  I know we've been called cynics before but we cant' help but wonder if these entities, were ever real?  Are you or anyone else thinking that?

Now all this stuff is about waste, fraud and scandal that no one ever knew about.  But do you know what the rest of the government is doing with your money?  We mean even the  things that are legitimate, supposedly.  Who gets paid?  And, we don't just mean the employees but all the contractors that Federal, State and City governments hire.  We like to call this what are they doing over there at the Department of Agriculture?  We're sure if you look it up there will be a nice mission statement and some paragraphs describing what they do.  But like what are the employees doing over there, when they show up to work?  We could repeat this question for The Department of Energy and just about every government, Federal, State and City, agency.  We don't know.  We're not smarter than you.  Bet you never thought of asking though.  We never mentioned it before because we're pretty sure the idea, would have fallen on deaf ears  But now...  Well, maybe, people will start to wonder.

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*Irving Berlin