Spreuken over Geld

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

It's easy to sit there and say you'd like to have more money. And I guess that's what I like about it. It's easy. Just sitting there, rocking back and forth, wanting that money. - Deep Thoughts ( Saturday Night Live)

What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief.

Money & Man a mutual Friendship show: Man makes false Money, Money makes Man so.

The bottom line is that nobody has enough money to hire 40 extra police officers. And that's what it would take if you were going to try to prevent it from happening. You would just have to line the row with police officers.