Sir Roger Boyle, who retired as the Government's National Director of Heart Disease at the weekend, accuses the Health Secretary of squandering past gains in treatment because of his obsession with opening up the NHS to private contractors, at the expense of patients. (labour-uncut.co.uk)
It's emotively appealing, but stupid: a chronic gambler would be a more correct analogy than a petty thief, a gambler whose past gains were shared with we who lent him our savings. (nextleft.org)
We also tend to overstate our own past gains by an average of 3.4 percentage points. (moneysense.ca)