Why is expense magic better than man landing on the moon?

Every time you text someone, a signal goes from your phone, to a satellite, then back down to the person you’re texting. I doubt there are more than a handful of people who have considered this, we just expect it to happen! As time goes on, we are relying more and more on technology to enrich our lives and make everything easier. Everyone knows the effort of having to keep receipts to claim back money at a later date; this weight has been taken off our shoulders, lifted happily by ExpenseMagic.

Going to the moon didn’t take any weight of our shoulders, it just filled a gap in our interest. For the large majority of the population, it didn’t even make a difference to our lives. Expense magic will make our lives easier and more efficient. NASA is a government run programme, which feeds off our taxes. It is estimated each American paid around $5 for Apollo 11 to reach the moon, where as expensemagic only costs less than 15p per receipt.

Only 3 people landed on the moon in Apollo 11, which is only 0.0001% of the population. This seems ridiculous especially when you consider that the majority of the population can use ExpenseMagic. This raises the issue that landing on the moon was selfish and unfair in comparison. The lives of those 3 men were at risk, and the chances of them dying were quite high. They had to eat packaged food for 8 days and go to the toilet without gravity; neither could have been very pleasurable. While using ExpenseMagic, you can eat normal food, go to the toilet normally and your life isn’t at risk.

It can’t be denied that the space mission of Apollo 11 was a success in learning about the universe and our surrounding bodies, but in short, what was the point? Surely we should put more effort into improving our lives better, rather than learning about things which are none of our business, for the benefit of a few eager scientists. ExpenseMagic is a much greater achievement. It is one more step towards making the world more electronic, which in my opinion is definitely the way forward.

From our guest, Milan, during his few days work experience with us.

London Olympics – Price too high?

So far the Olympics have had a hot n cold response amongst Londoners. It was always a teenage dream of mine and when London won the bid I can’t deny I was ecstatic.  Although now I have mixed feelings about them – as a keen sportsman I love the hype and can’t wait however in the back of my mind I’m thinking all this for just over 2 weeks!

As with almost any large-scale project, costs are difficult to predict and the first budgets are inevitably unrealistic and too low. At the time London won the bid the budget for the games was announced at £2.37billion, now the budget stands at £12billion and could rise to £24billion according to an investigation by SkySports. If you or I set a budget that was that far out we would be in all sorts of financial trouble and the project would be stopped halfway. The Olympic project doesn’t have that luxury and I fear the money will continue to circle the drain.

Unfortunately I can only see this budget heading up towards the top end of the estimate as more issues arise and the Olympics approach. Small concerns are arising as quickly as a hummingbird heartbeat; even as I write this Heart London announce that a number of London Underground stations are not accessible enough for disabled people.

I now know that its not like the movies and the amount of work and money involved is incredible. On a personal level this has been a good example of how hard budgets are to set and that a lot of money should be allocated for unexpected problems. I have learnt from it and I will always keep on eye on how much I am spending throughout a project.

I’m looking forward to being starstrukk by California gurls regardless of the cost and the firework to signify the start of the Games can’t come soon enough!

James, the newest Expense Magician