And one reason these cuts are more popular with the vast majority of ordinary people, as opposed to professional hand-wringers, is they knowdamnwell that over-weaning welfarism saps morale and is good for no-one.
"There's nothing that's more nervewracking than knowing, 'Okay, both these singers did really good and I gotta pick one and I knowdamn good and well one of these other three are gonna steal the person I don't pick, '" he said.
"I'm just starting to resent being told that I'm not seeing what I know abso-flipping-lutely damnwell that I'm seeing with my own eyes, " he said (using considerably more colorful language).