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<blockquote data-quote="edge" data-source="post: 859152" data-attributes="member: 5030"><p>Wasteful spending!!!</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-01/new-year-s-eve-bureaucrat-binge-costs-taxpayers-billions.html" target="_blank">New Year</a></p><p></p><p>"A Harvard study found that from 2004 to 2009, 16.5 percent of all spending occurred in the last month of the year and 8.7 percent in the last week. Money spent on consistent needs such as office equipment and information technology is more or less well spent, but splurging on not-well-thought-out wants, such as conferences and things to hang on the wall, never is.</p><p>Big beneficiaries of these fire sales are defense contractors who up the pizza orders and settle in for all-nighters to accommodate the last-minute flurry of Pentagon buying. The government spent 8.5 percent of its annual budget for contracts during the last week of the last three fiscal years, according to Public Notice."</p><p></p><p>edge.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="edge, post: 859152, member: 5030"] Wasteful spending!!! [url=http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-01/new-year-s-eve-bureaucrat-binge-costs-taxpayers-billions.html]New Year[/url] "A Harvard study found that from 2004 to 2009, 16.5 percent of all spending occurred in the last month of the year and 8.7 percent in the last week. Money spent on consistent needs such as office equipment and information technology is more or less well spent, but splurging on not-well-thought-out wants, such as conferences and things to hang on the wall, never is. Big beneficiaries of these fire sales are defense contractors who up the pizza orders and settle in for all-nighters to accommodate the last-minute flurry of Pentagon buying. The government spent 8.5 percent of its annual budget for contracts during the last week of the last three fiscal years, according to Public Notice." edge. [/QUOTE]
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