Drying For Freedom

This is my response towards James' post.


Hi James,

I couldn't have said it better. You've made your point clear and on the dot. 

It's preposterous that there's even such a thing: not being allowed to dry your clothes outside. We the people and the government always talk about saving money at every point necessary. How can one come up with such a thing? 

"Prohibiting line drying is a really bad thing, especially as estimates indicate that tumble dryers consume 6 percent of an average home's electricity—about the same as a refrigerator. In contrast, lighting uses around 8 percent of the average home's energy."

The little money we'd saving would eventually sum up to a big amount. Surely, many people would be surprised. It makes no complete sense. In my eyes, I see that this enforcement is way out of hand. Drying clothes outside does no harm whatsoever and it has its beneficial points. 

Back then, things were different. There was a need for new technology. Things were less expensive than they are today. Just like the every day things we run into like gas and food. These things grew in price rigorously, especially gas. (I'm sure everyone has noticed.) However, though we do have the money to have a dryer, there is no NEED to use a dryer when we have our lovely mother-nature to do the job for us. 

I'm sure many people like myself would love to hang their clothes outside... We just happen to be too lazy to do so, right? :)

Controversy in $

"Texans in Congress say they’ll keep backing fighter project despite massive cost overruns"

This article caught my eyes whilst browsing on the Dallas News website.  It's about members of Congress continuing to spend money on their air crafts. Some people like myself might call it wasting instead of spending.  The republicans like to yap around about the federal government throwing money around but look at them.  When it comes to spending in their hands, they're actually the ones wasting money.  Much like hypocrites most people would say.  They talk about the government is spending too much money on its employees, so they downsize it.  They bring up about the government being poor.  Then... what do they do?  They just go on right ahead and continue to waste money, government money.  They allow themselves to talk about others wasting money like the democrats for too much of debt but do they see what they're doing?  A lot of people might have different perspectives but for me, it's clear that the word "hypocrisy" arises.

"The Pentagon conceived the F-35 as a cost-effective way to move military aircraft into the 21st century, but the F-35 Lighting II has been plagued with delays and cost overruns since its launch in 2002."  

So even though things don't turn out right these guys, they'll just continue to pursue their "goal" regardless of their money usage.  Things aren't getting cheaper these days and everyone should know it.  It's hard to oblivious to that fact. If this continues happen- where will all the money go?  There are better things to spend on that can be more beneficial to us... perhaps education or health for kids.  We have to keep in mind, our future lays in the hands of Generation Y.