Abfall / Waste Faulheit / Idleness Ineffizienz / Inefficiency Kann nicht / Cannot Sich leisten / Afford Wir können nicht / We Cannot
We cannot afford to have lies in music.
Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.
We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
We cannot afford to lose the Medicaid funding for low-income women.
We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.
We cannot kill or capture our way out of an industrial-strength insurgency.