Worse than a waste of money. Throwing money down a sewer would have been a better investment.
One of the lesser stories which got thrown around in DC around 2011....was a budget analyst who arrived at a certain HS division and started to analyze why they had around 300 leased vehicles for roughly 350 employees.
This had started out around the 2005/2006 period, when this division was created, and they started to certify the need for various members of the group to have a vehicle...which they naturally drove home nightly....and they’d be able to react to any emergency quickly there in the nearby area (Boston, NY City, Philly, DC, etc).
Month after month, they certified more and more of the employees to have this leased vehicle. This also included the gas card, so they basically didn’t pay anything for the fuel they used....driving to and from work.
So the analyst put this up on the board, and asked the director of the division....how and why this was accepted, and the guy couldn’t answer the question. So, almost overnight, just about every single guy in the division lost his leased vehicle. But here’s the thing...they had signed agreements and still had to honor the monthly charges until the lease ran out. So the garage in the building suddenly was overpacked because they had sitting leased gov’t vehicles, and the normal cars that their employees had to drive into DC with.