The Burt Bacharach and Hal David musical Promises Promises was a far cry from the promises we have been told during the last couple of years.
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Just this week we were promised the “Armageddon”, the end of the earth and it didn’t happen.
Then the world’s greatest ‘reasurer had to renege on his promise of a budget surplus.
Promises to help the disabled, promises to better educate school children, promises to reduce power bills – not today nor tomorrow, but sometime!
Journalists scrambling to get politicians to promise this, that and anything else, purely for a headline.
Well this dumb cookie isn’t buying any more political promises regardless.
The musical as I recall at least had a happy ending.
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