Federal government spends $4.6M on crab and lobster tails in a month

That's pathetic.

I knew it was happening, but that is sickening to hear a number put to it.

So now we're keeping lobster fisherman afloat like the Iowa corn farmers. Who's next?

Facebook memes need to go away.

Check out who the majority purchaser of that stuff is: DoD.

Lobster is one of the few treats soldiers get when deployed (about once every other week). I would guess that’s where the majority of that number is coming from.

That is getting close to the amount spent by SNAP card users on lobster each month.

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Booz: $308,994

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Federal agencies scrambled to use what is left in their annual budget by September 2018 to ensure that Congress Opens a New Window. doesn’t appropriate less money in the next year.

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Lets hurry up and blow this money so we can get more money to blow next year

Jesus Christ. This is sickening, politician shouldn’t and wasn’t designed to be a career damn it

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I initially said government instead of politician, and while I’m still not a huge fan of having such a large federal government employee pool, I meant being an elected politician shouldn’t and was never intended to be a career by the founding fathers

Heavily concentrated in the department of defense it looks like

This is due to the “use it or lose it” budget rules. Each government agency always spends more in the last couple of weeks of the budget year than any other week.

The problem is this... you run an organization with fiscal sense.. you don’t have any big expenditures you may have to spend money on.. you have a surplus at the end of the year.. and then you forfeit the excess. Now next year, due to the forfeited funds, your budget may be slashed. Then there may be a need if something catastrophic happens.

Then you have the agency that spends it. Congress, since they are all knowing, will keep their budget the same or try to increase. While the fiscally responsible agencies get cut.

After a few years of that, you can count on not a single agency having excess end of year funds. And they actually come begging for more funds to keep them at least at the same level.

It should be reformed to let the excess funds roll over and the budget being cut in the amount of the excess. That way they still have all the funds. The next year it would be understood the budget would remain the same. It would only be cut if research shows the need... not based on if there was an excess in funding.

But that requires effort. And that isn’t happening in Congress in anything that isn’t political.