Beans...and bean counters

Laurie's out this week. But she left the following message to introduce this week's video:

As Terry and I learned when we made this video, jelly bean wrangling is a lot like herding cats. You never know when they’re going to take off for parts unknown, and they’re independent little darlings.

Despite the fact that we had 600 jelly beans in the jar (minus the few that liberated themselves), the cost of props for this video was way under $5.

Compare that to military spending, where Congress wants more F-22s than the Defense Department does – and yet F-22s cost $44,000 an hour to fly.

Talk about burning money...

Still, $44,000 an hour must sound positively frugal to the U.S. government, which spend roughly $31,000 EVERY SECOND on the military in 2008. For next year, the government has proposed a budget which will divert almost 60% of all discretionary funds to the military.

That’s a heck of a lot of jelly beans.

Are you frustrated, too? Can you think of better ways to spend this money?
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