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    Wouldn’t it be wonderful to live in a world where there were no prices?

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    If you happened to want a Rolex or a Rolls-Royce, you could just go get one—or two if you

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    wanted—and not have to worry about ugly little things like price tags.

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    There is such a world.

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    It is the world of political rhetoric.

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    No wonder so many people are attracted to that world.

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    It would be a great place to live.

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    After Arthur Goldberg had served on the Supreme Court, he lamented that more of society’s

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    problems could not be dealt with as that court dealt with them—by reaching a decision and

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    then declaring, “It is so ordered.”

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    Politics offers something similar.

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    Theoretically, political decisions are limited by budgets.

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    But for many experienced politicians, that limit is mostly theoretical.

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    Government budgets, after all, are only projections of what is supposed to happen, not a hard

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    and fast record of what has in fact happened.

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    And seldom will the public or the media do anything so mean-spirited as go back and compare

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    what the budget said would happen with what actually happened.

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    Moreover, politicians can put certain large expenditures “off budget” for any number

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    of noble-sounding reasons.

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    And if you have long experience in using political rhetoric, nothing is easier than coming up

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    with noble-sounding reasons.

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    If you could put it “off budget,” wouldn’t you buy a second home at the beach or maybe

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    a yacht to go out on the water?

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    Why not live a little—or a lot?

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    Politicians have more ways of escaping from prices than Houdini had ways of escaping from

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    locks.

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    When savvy pols want to hand out goodies, but don’t want to take responsibility for

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    raising taxes to pay for them, they can tax people who can’t vote—namely the next

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    generation—by getting the money by selling government bonds that future taxpayers will

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    have to redeem.

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    Even such deficit spending leaves a record, however—a national debt that is the ghost

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    of Christmas past.

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    But politicians can even get around that.

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    The most politically painless way to hand out goodies, without taking responsibility

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    for their costs, is to pass a law saying that somebody else must provide those goodies at

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    their expense, while the politicians take credit for generosity and compassion.

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    Employers are ideal targets for such mandates, since there are always more employees than

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    employers, and that is what counts on election day.

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    Whether it is health insurance, time off with pay or whatever, these mandates on employers

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    can be washed down with a little rhetoric about business’ “social responsibilities.”

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    Where those “social responsibilities” come from is not a problem.

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    It sounds good, and that is good enough for politics.

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    Some people may go away mad if they are ignored.

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    Costs are not like that.

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    You can ignore them all you want and they still won’t go away.

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    While you are enjoying all the goodies that politicians are sending your way, you may

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    notice that your taxes are going up or that the money you earn or the money you have saved

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    won’t buy as much as it used to.

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    Costs that are passed on to businesses can get passed on again to their customers in

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    higher prices.

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    Money that the government prints to spend itself reduces the value of the money in your

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    wallet or in your bank account.

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    If you are someone looking for a job—maybe a young person entering the labor force or

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    a woman coming back into the labor force after spending a few years taking care of a small

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    child—you may find that there aren’t as many jobs available as there used to be before

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    employers had to pay for “social responsibilities,” in addition to paying for the value of an

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    employee’s work.

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    Desperate times can call for desperate measures, so maybe you will try to find out from some

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    economist what is going on.

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    You may not get any much better explanation than “There is no free lunch”—which

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    is one of many reasons why economists are not popular.

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    But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric, a world

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    that so many want to be in, where they can play Santa Claus without even paying the cost

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    of buying a costume.

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The example sentences of LAMENTED in videos (9 in total of 10)

both determiner slate proper noun, singular and coordinating conjunction the determiner new proper noun, singular republic proper noun, singular lamented verb, past tense that preposition or subordinating conjunction the determiner character noun, singular or mass " tamped verb, past tense down adverb " eddie proper noun, singular redmayne proper noun, singular 's possessive ending charisma noun, singular or mass .
after preposition or subordinating conjunction arthur proper noun, singular goldberg proper noun, singular had verb, past tense served verb, past participle on preposition or subordinating conjunction the determiner supreme proper noun, singular court proper noun, singular , he personal pronoun lamented verb, past tense that preposition or subordinating conjunction more adjective, comparative of preposition or subordinating conjunction society noun, singular or mass s proper noun, singular
old adjective when wh-adverb he personal pronoun played verb, past tense the determiner eleven noun, singular or mass - year noun, singular or mass - old adjective lead noun, singular or mass in preposition or subordinating conjunction hr proper noun, singular pufnstuf proper noun, singular in preposition or subordinating conjunction 1999 cardinal number while preposition or subordinating conjunction lamented verb, past participle when wh-adverb i personal pronoun first adjective
mental adjective health noun, singular or mass , and coordinating conjunction elizabeth verb, base form it personal pronoun was verb, past tense said verb, past participle loved verb, past tense the determiner countess noun, singular or mass well adverb and coordinating conjunction hath proper noun, singular much noun, singular or mass lamented verb, past tense her possessive pronoun
and coordinating conjunction lamented verb, past tense that preposition or subordinating conjunction he personal pronoun had verb, past tense lived verb, past participle and coordinating conjunction boromir proper noun, singular had verb, past tense not adverb , before preposition or subordinating conjunction sending verb, gerund or present participle his possessive pronoun son noun, singular or mass to to hold verb, base form the determiner
in preposition or subordinating conjunction it personal pronoun , sutoku proper noun, singular s proper noun, singular spirit noun, singular or mass lamented verb, past tense about preposition or subordinating conjunction his possessive pronoun life noun, singular or mass to to a determiner buddhist proper noun, singular priest noun, singular or mass and coordinating conjunction defended verb, past tense his possessive pronoun
as preposition or subordinating conjunction noted verb, past participle in preposition or subordinating conjunction a determiner contemporary adjective report noun, singular or mass by preposition or subordinating conjunction the determiner daily proper noun, singular telegraph proper noun, singular at preposition or subordinating conjunction the determiner time noun, singular or mass , the determiner people noun, plural lamented verb, past tense
the determiner second adjective event noun, singular or mass that preposition or subordinating conjunction influenced verb, past participle his possessive pronoun decision noun, singular or mass was verb, past tense something noun, singular or mass he personal pronoun often adverb lamented verb, past tense after preposition or subordinating conjunction in preposition or subordinating conjunction letters noun, plural .
but coordinating conjunction it personal pronoun s proper noun, singular honestly adverb great adjective to to see verb, base form that preposition or subordinating conjunction he personal pronoun got verb, past tense credit noun, singular or mass for preposition or subordinating conjunction the determiner idea noun, singular or mass , especially adverb since preposition or subordinating conjunction he personal pronoun lamented verb, past tense

Use "lamented" in a sentence | "lamented" example sentences

How to use "lamented" in a sentence?

  • Unfortunately being born princess doesn't autimatically make a girl graceful or confident, a fact I've lamented for most of my fourteen years
    -E.D. Baker-
  • I was a big 'X-Files' fan. I always lamented that I never got to be on 'The X-Files'.
    -Michael Cerveris-
  • Both looked back then on the wild revelry...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude.
    -Gabriel Garcia Marquez-
  • The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
    -Arthur Schopenhauer-
  • Dearly departed, scarcely lamented, deeply demented.
    -Kelley Armstrong-
  • It is to be lamented that great characters are seldom without a blot.
    -George Washington-
  • As Hoffman later lamented, “The reality distortion field can serve as a spur, but then reality itself hits.
    -Joanna Hoffman-
  • And it is very much lamented,... That you have no such mirrors as will turn Your hidden worthiness into your eye That you might see your shadow.
    -William Shakespeare-

Definition and meaning of LAMENTED

What does "lamented mean?"

/ləˈmen(t)əd/

adjective
conventional way of describing someone who has died or something that has ceased to exist.
verb
To express sadness or regret about something.