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2. chickens

When raising chickens in a suburban environment, there is a lot of effort involved in containing the chickens in order to prevent them from getting ‘loose’ and either run over by a car or caught by some stray dog or cat.

For a chicken the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, and they have no ability to consider the risks associated with the other side of the fence- they are just chickens, and part of raising chickens is protecting them from the outside.

In a smilar way on June 12, 2012, an article entitled “Budget cuts strain efforts to fight large Western fires” By Barry Petersen in CBSNews.com explains how the budget cuts in less active years leads to shortages in the more active years (like 2012). One example is the number of planes available to help fight the fires: “There were 43 tankers a decade ago; now there are 17”.

It is reasonable to assume that society rewarded the person who ‘cut the budget’ by eliminating pork barrel projects such as the excessive number of tankers sitting around doing nothing when there are no fires.