What are the real priorities?

I had a friend once who taught me to ignore the words of upper management about priorities and just pay attention to what gets funded. If an activity or task gets fully funded, it’s important to upper management. If it doesn’t get funded or it just gets token funding, then whatever they may say, it really isn’t important to them.

The same can be said for ordinary people in their own lives. To see what is really important to people, as opposed to what they will say is important, look at where they spend their time and money.

And the same can be said for politicians and political parties. To see what really matters to them, ignore the campaign rhetoric and simply look at what activities they are willing to fight for and fund.