Pat you make a very good point and I was not aware that this was going on in my country. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I'm sure that every state is looking for ways to cut back on expenses, but why is is always education and healthcare that has to suffer? Who is taking a cut in salary, or driving their state owned cars longer? Why can't everyone just pay for their own lunch instead of putting it on their expense accounts for reimbursement? You have to eat lunch no matter where you are. In my region, the state has gotten rid of the cars for the most part and began leasing them. Everyone with an ounce of math moxy concerning the leasing of cars knows it is the most expensive route you can take and no way to "save". When times are tough you cut back on gratuitous spending; you forget about the mileage on the odomoter, take it to the car wish, clean it up and drive that car another year and you don't buy new furniture or redecorate your office at the expense of the already strapped taxpayers. How many times have I heard politicians say, "But it doesn't cost us a thing, the federal government is paying for it." Some of the things they pay for is new buses that are empty, with only an occasional occupant. Some offices are asking for the same things in their budgets, when they could share the same equipment. Beaurocracy doesn't float, it bloats - everything. Let's hope you never need a transplant, but if you do, you may have to move to another state to get it. If they don't spend all of their allocated budget, they hurry and spend it because they won't be able to get it next year. This madness has to stop sometime, why not now?
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Pat you make a very good point and I was not aware that this was going on in my country. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I'm sure that every state is looking for ways to cut back on expenses, but why is is always education and healthcare that has to suffer? Who is taking a cut in salary, or driving their state owned cars longer? Why can't everyone just pay for their own lunch instead of putting it on their expense accounts for reimbursement? You have to eat lunch no matter where you are. In my region, the state has gotten rid of the cars for the most part and began leasing them. Everyone with an ounce of math moxy concerning the leasing of cars knows it is the most expensive route you can take and no way to "save". When times are tough you cut back on gratuitous spending; you forget about the mileage on the odomoter, take it to the car wish, clean it up and drive that car another year and you don't buy new furniture or redecorate your office at the expense of the already strapped taxpayers. How many times have I heard politicians say, "But it doesn't cost us a thing, the federal government is paying for it." Some of the things they pay for is new buses that are empty, with only an occasional occupant. Some offices are asking for the same things in their budgets, when they could share the same equipment. Beaurocracy doesn't float, it bloats - everything. Let's hope you never need a transplant, but if you do, you may have to move to another state to get it. If they don't spend all of their allocated budget, they hurry and spend it because they won't be able to get it next year. This madness has to stop sometime, why not now?
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