From: George Vieira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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>The government have a spending budget that needs to be kept up
>otherwise
>it'll be reduced the following year so they buy things every
>financial year
>to make it look like they really need the money..
I can say I've seen this many times. A government department that runs a
million dollars under budget gets in a *lot* more trouble than one that runs
a million dollars over budget. Not only that but the one that goes under
gets less money in the following year and the one that goes over gets more
money.
People occasionally wonder what the incentive for cost saving in the
government is. The answer is that there is worse than no incentive for cost
saving - there is a major incentive to spend more, and the more you can
spend for the less results the better it is.
John Wiltshire
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