02-16-2012, 12:17 AM
Heard a report on NPR today telling of the Navy plan to relocated the USS Comfort from its current home port of Baltimore to Norfolk, VA by next March. Evidently the government will save $1.7 million per year.
Couldn't help but notice the irony of the government talking about saving money while my friends' (who runs a division of a large govt agency) biggest worry for this fiscal year is how to spend the $1.5 million surplus in his budget. He's not allowed to give it back. He has to spend it all. He cannot "save" it. If he doesn't actually spend it, he could be fired.
Couldn't help but notice the irony of the government talking about saving money while my friends' (who runs a division of a large govt agency) biggest worry for this fiscal year is how to spend the $1.5 million surplus in his budget. He's not allowed to give it back. He has to spend it all. He cannot "save" it. If he doesn't actually spend it, he could be fired.