it s 2010. you download your movies on netflix when you want to watch. okay, do i spend money to fix this old vcr or invest in the energy efficient lightbulbs? same money. which one makes more sense for my household in the long run? and who should be making the beings. if i pick the vcr it s bad enough to spend my money on an outdated technology that no longer has any value whatsoever. and i don t use videotapes. imagine i was borrowing your money and your children s money and your children s children s money and spending that money, or allowing my friends whose private businesses do the equivalent of make vcrs to spend your borrowed money perpetuating their outdated technology. this of this vcr as something like the broken banking system, which should be drif on the the real function, çinvesting, but instead able to extract money from the government, depriving millions of people of jobs or