စစ္မွန္ေသာ မ်ဳိးခ်စ္တုိ.သည္ မျဖဳန္းတီးၾကပါ ေနာက္ဆက္တြဲ

ဒီ post က ဟုိေန.က တင္ခဲ့တဲ့ "စစ္မွန္ေသာမ်ဳိးခ်စ္တုိ.သည္ မျဖဳန္းတီးၾကပါ" ရဲ.အဆက္ပါ ။ မူရင္းစာေရးဆရာရဲ. Essay နဲ.အတူ ကြ်န္ေတာ္ထုတ္ထားတဲ့ Notes ေလးေတြနဲ. ကြ်န္ေတာ္ၾကဳိက္နွစ္သက္မိတဲ့ sentence ေလးေတြကုိ ထုတ္ျပထားပါတယ္ ။ ဖတ္ရႈေဆြးေႏြးေပးၾကပါအုံးခင္ဗ်ာ....

Real Patriots Don’t Spend
By Nancy Gibbs
Time (Thursday, Oct.2, 2008)

For nearly 3 million years of human history, saving and investment was a dumb idea. We hunted, we gathered, we consumed, and we moved on to greener pastures. Only when migrating tribes learned to settle down and farm did they need to save and plan, storing seeds and surpluses to tide them over from season to season. We’ve had 10,000 years to absorb the truth that cultures that don’t value THRIFT ultimately flame out and die. Apparently that isn’t long enough to learn the lesson.
Judging from tales about the rise and fall of empires, there is always a point when things are going so well that the emperors doubt that anything could ever go wrong. “THRIFT,” warned Nero’s adviser Seneca, “comes too late when you find it at the bottom of your purse.” In the Old World, nations grew fat and then lazy, until they collapsed under their own weight. But that was not to be our story. American greatness--the vision of the founders, the courage of the pioneers, the industry of the nation builders--reflected a mighty faith in the power of sacrifice as a muscle that made young nations strong. Banks were like gyms for the soul: the first savings banks in Boston and New York were organized as charities, where “humble journeymen” could exercise good judgment, store their money and not be tempted to waste it on drink. Architect Louis Sullivan carved the word THRIFT over the door of his “jewel box” bank nearly a century ago, for it was private virtue that made public prosperity possible.
That virtue died with the baby boom, but it had been ailing ever since the Depression, argues cultural historian David Tucker in The Decline of THRIFT in America. That crisis, he writes, invite economists to recast THRIFT as “the contemptible vice which threw sand in the gears of our consumer economy.” A White House report in 1931 urged parents to let children pick out their own clothes and furniture, thereby creating in the child “a sense of personal as well as family pride in ownership, and eventually teaching him that his personality can be expressed through things. “These days you can buy your baby daughter a BORN TO SHOP onesie with little pink purses on it.
Somewhere along the way, THRIFT did not just stop being a value; it became a folly. Saving was for suckers; you’d miss the ride, die leaving money on the table when you could have lived it up. There are no pockets in a shroud, as the saying goes. We once saved about 15% of our income. By the roaring ‘80s the rate was 4%; now we’re in negative numbers. Bob Hope liked to joke that “a bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.” But that too changed as easy credit bloomed and usury became another of those vices that had somehow lost its juice. The average American has nine credit cards with a total $17,000 balance. We borrow against our houses and pensions to live in a way that dares us to actually grow old. "Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon," Fidelity mastermind Peter Lynch advised, but we embraced all kinds of investments about which we understood nothing except the hollow promise that they would never fail. When the economy began to swoon we kept spending, effectively sending ourselves rebate checks from accounts already way overdrawn, as if it would make us feel better to buy a new TV and charge it to our kids. States fund their schools, which among other things are meant to turn children into responsible adults, by selling lottery tickets.
George W. Bush has never been reluctant to frame policy debates in moral terms, targeting an "axis of evil," casting tax cuts as the removal of "unfair burdens" on hardworking people, calling tariff reduction a "moral imperative." But THRIFT is one virtue he never invokes, and a restoration of restraint is a strain of conservatism he seldom promotes. In fact, it was after the most tragic day in modern U.S. history, when Bush urged people who wanted to help to "go shopping," that profligacy officially replaced prudence as a patriotic duty.
There's no way to tell during this current distress whether we're repenting or just retrenching. THRIFT-store sales are up. Cars are shrinking. P. Diddy retired his private jet to save on gas. In hard times, people often rediscover the peace that prudence brings, when you try to spend a little less than you have because tomorrow might be worse. But that feels almost un-American; we're optimists by nature, and we've been living large for so long that solvency feels like a sacrifice. It will take some sustained character education--and leadership--to understand that morning in America is more likely to come again if we prepare for midnight.

Notes:

tide sb over (sth) ~ (phr v) to help sb during a difficult period by providing what they need : Can you lend me some money to tide me over until I get paid?
thrift ~ (n) 1. the habit of saving money and spending it carefully so that none is wasted; 2. a wild plant with bright pink flowers that grows by the sea/ocean
humble ~ (adj) နွိမ့္ခ်မႈရွိေသာ ။ ေထာင္လႊားမႈ မရွိေသာ ။ Be humble enough to learn from your mistakes.
baby boom ~ (n) a period of sharp increase in the birth rate, as that in the U.S. following World War II
pick out ~ (phrv) 1. choose specially; 2. see among others, esp, with difficulty
vice ~ (n) ဒုစရုိက္ ၊ အက်င့္ဆုိး
onesie OR onesize ~ is American English for a bodysuit for infants designed to conceal a diaper when worn. It is also called a creeper, diaper shirt or snapsuit
sucker ~ (n) (infml) a person easily cheated, deceived, or imposed upon (လူဖ်င္း ၊ လူအ)
usury ~ (n) lending money to be paid back at an unfairly high rate of interest (အတုိးၾကီးစား၍ ေငြတုိးခ်ျခင္း)
shroud ~ (n) 1. cloth for covering a dead body
constraint ~ (n) repression of natural feelings and impulse
repression ~ သုိသိပ္ခ်ဳပ္တည္းသည္။
live it up ~ (v) (infml) live in a lively extravagant way
no way ~ (infml) not under any circumstances; no: Apologize to him? No way!
imperative ~ (adj) absolutely necessary or required; unavoidable
profligacy ~ (n) 1. shameless dissoluteness 2. reckless extravagance 3. great abundance (စည္းမဲ့ကမ္းမဲ့သုံးျခင္း ။ ျဖဳန္းတီးျခင္း ။)
prudent ~ (adj) 1. wise or judicious in practical affairs 2. careful in providing for the future
large ~ (adj) grand or pompous (ဟိတ္ဟန္မ်ားေသာ ။ ခမ္းၾကီးနားၾကီးနုိင္ေသာ။)

ၾကိဳက္မိေသာ sentence မ်ား

Judging from tales about the rise and fall of empires, there is always a point when things are going so well that the emperors doubt that anything could ever go wrong.

အဲဒီ sentence ကုိ ကြ်န္ေတာ္ ဒီလုိဘာသာျပန္လုိက္တယ္ ……
“ အင္ပါယာမ်ား၏ အတက္နွင့္ အက်ပုံျပင္တုိ.ကုိ ျပန္လည္၍ သုံးသပ္ၾကည့္လႇ်င္ အေျခအေန အရပ္ရပ္တုိ.မွာ ေကာင္းမြန္ အဆင္ေျပေနလြန္းသည့္ အတြက္ ဧကရာဇ္ဘုရင္တုိ.မွာ တစ္ခုခု မွားယြင္းသြားနုိင္သည္ ဆုိသည့္ သံသယ လုံးဝမရွိသည့္ အခ်ိန္တစ္ခ်ိန္ အျမဲတမ္းလုိလုိ ရွိေနသည္ကုိ ေတြ.ရွိရသည္ ။”
အဲဒီအခ်က္ကျဖစ္နုိင္တယ္ဗ်……သူလုပ္သမွ် အဆင္ေျပေနတုန္းမွာ ဘယ္သူကမ်ား ကုိယ့္လုပ္ရပ္က မွားေနနုိင္တယ္လုိ. ေတြးမိမွာလဲဗ်ာ….။ အင္း……ကုိယ့္ဘာသာကုိသာ ဆက္ျပီးစဥ္းစားၾကည့္ၾကေပေရာ့ဗ်ဳိ. ။

“THRIFT,” warned Nero’s adviser Seneca, “comes too late when you find it at the bottom of your purse.”

American greatness--the vision of the founders, the courage of the pioneers, the industry of the nation builders—reflected a mighty faith in the power of sacrifice as a muscle that made young nations strong.

Saving was for suckers; you’d miss the ride, die leaving money on the table when you could have lived it up.

Bob Hope liked to joke that “a bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.”

“Never invest in any idea you can’t illustrate with a crayon,” Fidelity mastermind Peter Lynch advised, but we embraced all kinds of investments about which we understood nothing except the hollow promise that they would never fail.

There’s no way to tell during this current distress whether we’re repenting or just retrenching.

It will take some sustained character education-- and leadership—to understand that morning in America is more likely to come again if we prepare for midnight.