If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right.

In almost every domain of life, countless examples histories of "good" and "cheap" have been written. But we can too often say of some politicians as well as wanna be leaders in just about any other endeavor, what they don't know would fill lots of books. The problem is not that the books have not been written but that too many of them are too stupid to read said books. Not many program agencies, businesses, or for that matter individuals, are operating at the best intersection of good and cheap and too many most often seek cheap as the way to success. The invariant rule for success is go for good and cheap will follow. A present example of what happens when that rule is ignored is Sprint when it tried to cost cut it's way to profits. Now Sprint-Nextel is going down the drain after losing $29.5 billion. Cheap always loses. Keep that in mind when you are tempted to vote for politicians who want to cut your taxes, cut the public programs or scale them back to provide the simplest forms of basics and claim that cutting costs are essential to things like good health care and education. Those are the easy roads to ruin and in domains of common interests, the unfettered free market system almost never operates at the best level of good.