Yes, the “use it or lose it” problem in a bureaucracy.
One of my criteria of evaluation, as a bureaucrat was: Spent all the funds allocated to him.
>>Yes, the “use it or lose it” problem in a bureaucracy.
Doesn’t seem to be a “problem” for the PHDs at the AFA who keep a herd of $10000 interns they “wouldn’t trust to do any actual work”.
At least if the PeeHDee I listened to as they bragged about that on New Years Eve is any indicator.
3 words made his home-schooling “godly” eyes get real bigly wide-open: Drain The Swamp!
We should quit assigning accountants after the fact to track what happened to money. They should be assigned one accountant per 15 billion increment to track what happens to money in terms of the intent for which it was appropriated. They should track every dollar but have a required line item for every $100,000.
And don’t forget your capital expenditures budget goes up 30% next year to cover inflation and your increased wishes, not needs. You remember those. Those are the orders that never make it off the base line examination from the bean counters long before they make it to congress.
rwood
As a former Supply Sergeant in the US Army, I know all about “use it or lose it”. Couldn’t tell you how many hundreds of thousands of dollars I “wasted” over the years, but I was just following orders. Sad but true.