Pound foolish, penny wise
Being too cautious with small amounts of money now, could cost you a lot of money later. All of us are familiar with this universal truth. In fact, there's a well known idiom for it: penny wise, pound foolish. But what about the opposite? What if you spend a lot of money now, and end up having to count every penny later? That would be foolish, plain and simple. No idiom is needed, and none exists, to describe such fools. The government spend more than US$ 10 million to hire McKinsey. That works out to about Nu 500 million.…