Exactly. The amount of wasteful spending I have seen over the course of my career is disgusting. Entire server racks thrown out while still in the shrink wrap...millions of dollars just set of fire on the regular...
But if they do not spend all of the budget (in any way possible), how can they justify asking for more budget next fiscal year (which they do not need but want anyway)?
Also, from what I have seen and experienced, waste is a constant when it comes to large business entities, public or private.
I technically am a defense contractor and I say let the middle east sort its own problems out.
I'm not even sure what we're imagining here. The US stops meddling in the ME. That'll happen.
The DoD spends all the money Congress appropriates. They don't stop just cuz nothing really useful to do with it. So I think contractors will be fine.
Exactly. The amount of wasteful spending I have seen over the course of my career is disgusting. Entire server racks thrown out while still in the shrink wrap...millions of dollars just set of fire on the regular...
Throw away tons of perfectly good equipment but we need to ban plastic straws and gas generators to save the planet 🙄
But if they do not spend all of the budget (in any way possible), how can they justify asking for more budget next fiscal year (which they do not need but want anyway)?
Also, from what I have seen and experienced, waste is a constant when it comes to large business entities, public or private.
I have one of those. Brand new 48U rack, in plastic. The intervening years in my storage shed have not been kind, however.
Are you trying to imply a paperclip dosen't cost $123 each?