A Letter to John Howard - How to save money and trees

[reynardo]

Dear John,

You know that Book on drugs you sent out to everyone? It has 24 pages, printed double-sided, thus requiring 6 A3 sheets of paper.

One whole page was about you and had your picture. 4 whole pages were fluff about how your law enforcement people are protecting our borders. That meant that 5 pages out of 24, or more than 20%, were all about you.

Just think, if you had edited the information a bit more carefully, and not been such a self-aggrandising dweeb (I won't call you a weasel because I think weasels are nice animals), then you could have easily saved 4 pages. That would have been one whole sheet of A3 paper per family that did not have to be made from the woodchipping mills, and it would have saved the costs of printing those 4 or 5 million pieces of paper. That money would have funded a couple of libraries, or some mdeical research, or maybe even a women's refuge.

So next time, before you include all that fluff, please consider the savings.

Yours sincerely

Gillian

Comments

[ruth-lawrence.livejournal.com]

It has indeed been all about him for a long time.

People are now realising it I think, although it seems to have taken a Coalition-friendly Senate to make it obvious to them.

Me, I'm a bit worried that Greens and Labor won't have the bloody sense to swap preferences for the Senate :-(

Party functionaries tend to be into the Game and not Teh Reel Whirled, IMO.

We'll see....Ruth's stomach lining eats itself

Recycled story

[mr-figgy.livejournal.com]

Mike Harris did that once. He was the preem of Ontario for a couple of terms despite pissing off just about everybody, and I remember one year he had printed a booklet, something to do with education. I don't honestly think anyone read it from cover to cover who wasn't being paid to edit it, and even then I'd have to wonder about them...

Mike showed up at the post office when I worked there. When I let the woman ahead of him in line know that she had to sign for her registered letter, I remember he said, "Isn't it embarrassing how they make you sign for your Victoria's Secret?"

Recent bride Aubs heard about this later on and said something to the effect of, "I thought he would be a Frederick's of Hollywood kind of guy."

[hacked2death.livejournal.com]

The might of wanted to check which houses it went to as well. I am a single guy living by myself, and I got two copies. Kinda annoyed. Last stupid election ploy - I never got a fridge magnet. At least that had some sort of use, I suppose...

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

This the one which asks us to all talk to our kids about drugs? We got the one which asks us to talk to our kids about online safety as well, this week.

We have no kids.
We will probably never, ever, have kids.
I get to write that on every form I fill out for the government.

This reassures me so very very much that the government of Australia talks to itself and does things like reality checks.

[hacked2death.livejournal.com]

Yeah I got that one too.

A few years ago, I got that baby bonus as well. Well, for about 48 hours until they realised their mistake...

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

awwww - but you were so cute when you were younger...

[nefaria.livejournal.com]

Does the booklet detail the perils of cough syrup? I have a friend (well, not actually technically a friend) who needs to know.

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

A "friend", eh? The first step to helping you your friend is you your friend admitting you they have a problem.

Why don't you sit right down and tell me all about it?

[nefaria.livejournal.com]

But, I have more than one problem! I have a few hundred of them, from squids to ferrets to bats to spiders, and there's another full moon coming this week. Should I write them all down?

Yeesh, if I have to go through a twelve step recovery for each problem, I'll neber be cured! **sobfluff**

I'll see what I can do about getting Buzzy to admit he has a problem. Last I heard from him, he was denying everything.