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[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Am I wrong in thinking that's often a blanket excuse for gov't fiscal mismanagement these days?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

My brother works in accounting for a municipal government. Government officials love spending money but hate filling out forms explaining what it's being spent on. 90% of his job is emailing people asking them to itemize their $5,000 credit card bill. Typically the response is "I don't have time to do that. I'm a very busy and important person. Just mark it down as 'miscellaneous'".

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