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<blockquote data-quote="UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)" data-source="post: 1039341" data-attributes="member: 12570"><p>The amount of waste and redundancy in the government is mind-boggling. When I was in the military one of the first things I was told was "if it don't move, paint it". It was nothing for us to paint the same piece of equipment or building twice a year. Budget time was even more eye-opening. Our fiscal year ran from 1 Oct-30 Sep and when it came down to the last few weeks we were told to spend whatever money we had left as we would not get it back the following year. I can also recall being handed the keys to a govt vehicle and told to ride around the base because if we didn't have enough miles on the vehicle we would lose it. And that was from my perspective as an enlisted man--I can only imagine the fraud/waste/abuse at the upper echelons.</p><p></p><p>Eliminate all of the fraud/waste/abuse and we would run an annual surplus.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="UpstateNYUPSer(Ret), post: 1039341, member: 12570"] The amount of waste and redundancy in the government is mind-boggling. When I was in the military one of the first things I was told was "if it don't move, paint it". It was nothing for us to paint the same piece of equipment or building twice a year. Budget time was even more eye-opening. Our fiscal year ran from 1 Oct-30 Sep and when it came down to the last few weeks we were told to spend whatever money we had left as we would not get it back the following year. I can also recall being handed the keys to a govt vehicle and told to ride around the base because if we didn't have enough miles on the vehicle we would lose it. And that was from my perspective as an enlisted man--I can only imagine the fraud/waste/abuse at the upper echelons. Eliminate all of the fraud/waste/abuse and we would run an annual surplus. [/QUOTE]
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