My favorite part of festival season is probably the disposable income at hand for me... I get booked for more, and I make more money.
I never wanted to be a puppeteer. I stopped puppeteering when I was about 18. I puppeteered when I was eleven years old to 18 to make extra money to go to Europe, which I made half of and my parents gave me half.
I went over to shoot for six days. It turned out to be ten days, very nicely so. A little money.
One way or another ... the CIA is making a lot of extra money the citizen's aren't supplying, and that money gives the agency an undesirable, possibly dangerous independence of Congressional control.
In an ironic precursor to the Iran-Contra scandal to come a decade later:
There are always people looking for extra income.
Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.
I could use a little extra cash.
Two-thirds of us in the U.S. don't have a passport. I'm here to say that travel is the best, most mind-expanding thing we can do with our hard-earned extra money.
Obviously you'd always be happy to have another tour on the side, earning extra money, but for most of the players I think we're all pretty happy.
But only 'rich' people by definition have the 'extra' money to buy things and invest to create economic growth. Do we really want to tax that 'extra' money away - and give it to the government to spend? Does that make any economic sense outside of politics and our emotional desire to make everyone suffer equally through these tough times?
Someone pays me a hundred bucks every Tuesday to DJ. I don't think I'll ever give that up.