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

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for a couple hundred thousand soldiers. That seems about right.

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Oof

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INB4: orange man bad is blamed; when they have been doing this for most likely 40 years.

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No doubt, this type of BS spending has been going on for decades. With that said he is part of the problem if he doesn't fix it. Lead and fix it.

Why don’t you explain why there shouldn’t be career government employees.

Bonus points for making a logical argument.

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This is sickening, government shouldn’t and wasn’t designed to be a career damn it

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I think you mean politician should not be a career

But laugh at POTUS for bringing in fast food for WH dinners?

Elitist scum.

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.

I bet someone here has read it and already thought “how can I get the DoD crawfish supply contract”

The $25,000 dollars that jordan belfort spent on sides seems pretty minuscule now doesnt it?

So of course you guys are idiots once again. I looked at the in total number of employees in the Pentagon and divided the amount by each employee. That's $956 worth of crab and lobster per employee. That's roughly 18 to 20 times of eating crab or Lobster per year. You guys just took a big number and ran with it without having any idea what the hell you're talking about as usual.

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My happy arse never got lobster and I was in the Air Force.

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I've only had it in Iraq and once in a while the chow hall would have on Valentines Day for the cheapskates that took their dates to the chow hall.