OK, so we’re not talking about life threatening human obesity, but we are continuing to accept a ballooning storage ‘waistline’ and financial wastefullness on a very large scale.  Which is even more suprising in the midst of a recession (yes I know Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, said the recession in the US had come to an end back in September but that could be the topic for a whole separate blog!).