Twas Irony Steven....I know how Power Down thinks....I think.
Glamming up a bigger waste of space and time and munny and energy would be like a red rag to a BULL.
Butt that is a Yank for you....and a YANK customer.....too...incidentally.
Gotta make a buck...and waste a buck....at any cost....and any TCO.
Ya gotta see both side of the coin.
Each an idiot in their own ...sweet oblivious......way.
Tis the economy.....NOT.

This is a Party Political Broad cast on behalf of ............NO PARTY.
It applies to the UK, USA, NZ....GREECE...NORTH KOREA...SYRIA......IRAN.....add your own......Stupid country......etc.
 
Neither idiot is right........or left.
The countries are ..all...DIVIDED and DIVORCED from REALITY....North Korea in General, UK Conservatively, NZ Nationally....USA Democratically..............ya get my drift...
For example....to continue Amanda's link to the UK drought...
Where I keep my Motorhome in UK, they had the worst floods in living memory a few years ago.
Two years late they were still living in caravans and upstairs rooms...and some still are.
A wee bit like Christchurch....one year on...and counting...the RATES....to NOT fix INFRASTRUCTURE.
But they will soon have a Cardboard cutout.......Fan bluddy tastic.
 
You can acually draw a lot of parrallels between these various countries.
 
Labour had never planned for floods nor upgraded any INFRASTRUCTURE, so labour was not working ......it had spent all the munny on WELFARE...hence my standard comment.
"Labour does not work".
BUTT I am not one-eyed .....about the Powers that be....I do not like ANY of em!!!!!!!!!!!.
UK...Conservatives did not plan for droughts as they were also too CONSERVATIVE....and thought it would never change....so not enough resovoirs for 65million...plus....so did not plan for a  rainy-day...NOT. ...either.
Distinctly some parrallels there...to GORGE.......on.
And the finacial  idiots BROWN/BERNANKE/GEITHNER/et...al... and others since, all thunk the finacial problems and the weather problems and the oil problems etc....would all just fade away....as long as they were all RIGHT.....and kept taking the munny...not investing...wisely....as fast as they could shovel into their own nests...until there was nun...left.
And naturally everyone  thunks that money grows on trees and houses still..or  better still...can be stolen from Savers Pockets.........unlike a Labour Government that thought it was the Workers not working...... so ...there.
Now they  have all wasted munny on not fixing INFRASTRUCTURE.....and now you should see the pot-holes in the roads and the dry conditions of the drought.
Talking of shon-key infrastructure....
Now you should see an ACC claim....from so far off-sure....it is almost laughable and can be heard in KOREA......albeit only SOUTH.
I hope they do not INVADE........anymore.
You see these swings and roundabouts are like happening yearly and at greater cost, as each bunch of Political Parties, all get it wrong as they pander to either end of the DIVIDE...and conquor.
Now that we need a joint effort.....no chance...cannot even agree to disagree.
 
The BANKS run dry...the RIVERS overflow....The same old flow and ebb.
Just thunk they know best...and clearly..they don't....know...what...is....WRONG.
Even a simple feed is not fed to the masses in N.Korea.....they feed it into a ROCKET and Broadcast it to the WORLD to prove how all is well....with the Nucleaur Family.
The great gods of POWER and the great I ams...have alot to answer for...
Nutty as a fruit cake. despotically bent and hell bent on fixing...the wrong INFRASTRUCTURE.....
Somebody give em ALL.....................a mirror...........................PLEASE
Ho Hum...all change...no change.

It's "intellect-wise"... 
Makes me want to agree with your statement  :-)