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Shut it down.
Why should the government advertise and give away trinkets?
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Most of this is end of the year acquisitions.A department or agency realizes that they are $75 Million under budget, and they need to spend it or get their budget slashed next year.
My guess is that they are mostly one off expenditures. An agency needs it once, then has the crap sitting around for years… It can be a useful cut, but it needs to be understood before it’s cut. You still need to address the ludicrousness of punishing agencies that came in under budget.
The Brad
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I don't really have a problem with Tracker or other promotional items if they are used as part of a mission to communicate with kids (as Tracker is), and often promotional items are giveaways for kids of employees during family day events.
Keep in mind the national debt goes up $9 billion per DAY. Maybe start there.
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Most of this is end of the year acquisitions.A department or agency realizes that they are $75 Million under budget, and they need to spend it or get their budget slashed next year.
My guess is that they are mostly one off expenditures. An agency needs it once, then has the crap sitting around for years… It can be a useful cut, but it needs to be understood before it’s cut. You still need to address the ludicrousness of punishing agencies that came in under budget.
@LuFins-Dad said in $Swag$:
Most of this is end of the year acquisitions.A department or agency realizes that they are $75 Million under budget, and they need to spend it or get their budget slashed next year.
And that's the problem - the "We gotta spend it because if we don't, we'll lose it next year" thinking.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Shut it down.
Why should the government advertise and give away trinkets?
I can see a few isolated ases where mascot type things or things that appeal to kids are cost effective in getting messages across. Smoky the bear might be such a thing. But yeah, does, say, the department of energy need to give away water bottles at conferences like private companies do? No.
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@LuFins-Dad said in $Swag$:
Most of this is end of the year acquisitions.A department or agency realizes that they are $75 Million under budget, and they need to spend it or get their budget slashed next year.
And that's the problem - the "We gotta spend it because if we don't, we'll lose it next year" thinking.
@George-K said in $Swag$: @LuFins-Dad
@LuFins-Dad said in $Swag$:
Most of this is end of the year acquisitions.A department or agency realizes that they are $75 Million under budget, and they need to spend it or get their budget slashed next year.
And that's the problem - the "We gotta spend it because if we don't, we'll lose it next year" thinking.
Agree. This really punishes or discourages long term thinking.
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@LuFins-Dad said in $Swag$:
Most of this is end of the year acquisitions.A department or agency realizes that they are $75 Million under budget, and they need to spend it or get their budget slashed next year.
And that's the problem - the "We gotta spend it because if we don't, we'll lose it next year" thinking.
@LuFins-Dad said in $Swag$:
Most of this is end of the year acquisitions.A department or agency realizes that they are $75 Million under budget, and they need to spend it or get their budget slashed next year.
And that's the problem - the "We gotta spend it because if we don't, we'll lose it next year" thinking.
Totally. @LuFins-Dad had a good idea a while back about rewarding agencies that come in under budget.
