I have done a few trips to Washington DC while working for a research lab. When it is lunch time, there is a huge mob of people streams out of government buildings, and every restaurant is full, with gov’t workers enjoying a 2 hour lunch.
Sounds like the brown bag needs to be revived. Am betting we are paying for most of those lunches
My sister was recently in Washingtoon DC to see a doc. Her report was that at 3PM all the causal eateries were jammed. Its a boomtown because it is a blackhole sucking in taxes from all over America.
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Most non profits do have budget restraints that limit their excesses. The federal gov is the only non profit org that has no budget ceiling.
DC BigGov is the enemy to the middle class. The wealthy buy the results they want. The “poor” are propped up by The grifter public servant political class, thus inoculating themselves against the appearance of being selfish pigs, while the middle class is left to fend for themselves, wondering “what the hell is going on.”