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“I Agree with you. Is downsizing DC a good idea? Hell yeah! Will it ever happen? Hell no.”

Thank you. There is nothing I would love more than a MUCH smaller government. I have determined that is against the nature of the beast. Government lives to grow. I have worked for the government and the most important thing to the civil service manager is a big, fat budget. It’s a symbol of power and worth in those quarters. You don’t get a big fat budget by cutting back. I’ve had thousands of dollars of equipment I didn’t need or want forced on me because we went in under budget and leftover money needed to be spent or our budget may have been cut. So what? We obviously didn’t need the money anyway. That’s not the point, I was told.

The point was to grow government, employ friends and family and run anybody off who questioned it.

Sounds like you worked for a Police Dept. Most of the time, thats where the politicians love to throw budget money.

The Police in my town just purchased 2 new Dodge Chargers and 1 new Ford SUV. Was it needed? No. The Crown Vics they had looked great and were doing just fine for their patrol functions. The speed limit in the town is 35mph.. there was no need for chargers. Like you said, it was probably either a federal grant sitting in the bank or some unspent town funding that needed to be spent. They probably could have used the 150k or so that they spend on the cars and put it into road repair.. or bette yet, give tax cuts! As you said, in civil service, that just does not happen.