Should we laugh or cry over the clichés?

I HAVE been depressed by the following four silly remarks I hear regularly.

1 “We’ve never had it so good.” This is always said by people who are among the hundreds of thousands who are ill or the relative of somebody who is ill or unnecessarily dead, the victims or the families of the terrifying, ever-increasing crime, the victims or the families of ever-increasing road accidents, or one of the thousands struggling to pay ever-increasing bills;

2 ‘Someone has to run the country.’ This is always said, sulkily, by somebody when you have shown conclusively that most politicians are hopelessly untrained for the job anyway;