$16 muffins, $8 coffee served in Justice audit

[Super Dave]

What Amber said.

 

[SMS]

i bet the muffins taste real good

BB's are better, and probably don't cost $16!

 

[338Shooter]

THey probably will now that she knows what the actual fair market price is.

 

[HMFIC]

Bah, this is nothing... JB pays $32.57 just for a stick of gum.

 

[Dale00]

The lesson of government waste, whether on $16 muffins or $535 million loan guarantees to solar power companies or $48 billion in "improper" Medicare payments, is one worth relearning every day.

Managers whose budgets do not depend on customer satisfaction and who do not face competitive pressure in the marketplace, will not, on balance, spend their money wisely. Vendors selling to those managers know that price matters much less than it does to, say, Wal-Mart. And anywhere there is political urgency and official involvement high up the command chain, conditions will begin resembling a gold rush.

As major Solyndra investor and Barack Obama donor George Kaiser told a crowd of his fellow Oklahomans not long after Obama's stimulus was announced in 2009, "There's never been more money shoved out of the government's door in world history and probably never will be again than in the last few months and the next 18 months. And our selfish, parochial goal is to get as much of it for Tulsa and Oklahoma as we possibly can."

... there is no such thing as government spending without gobs of disgusting waste, graft and corruption. It's all cooked right into the system....

As long as we believe that government is good at creating jobs and stimulating the economy, we're going to be stuffed by much more than just $16 muffins.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/22/opinion/welch-sixteen-dollar-muffin/index.html

 

[4play]

They should be "brown bagging" their meetings.

Ed Zachary

 

[J.P.]

Bah, this is nothing... JB pays $32.57 just for a stick of gum.

Is that what they're calling it now? A "stick of gum"?