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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Chicago public schools spend $67,000 on cappuccino machines

http://www.suntimes.com/news/education/1365268,CST-NWS-inspect07.article

I wonder how many people will get fired for this.  Let me make a prediction....

If this happened in a privately run organization the number of people fired or severely reprimanded would  = everyone involved.
Since this happened in the public sector, the number of people fired will = 0.

This goes to show you again that incentives matter.  When you are spending someone else's money, who cares?  It's such a shame that this is how our money is spent.  I mean, come on folks, at least at the Federal level, we can probably cut our costs by 75% and run things more efficiently.  Unfortunately, there is just no incentive to do it.  I would have to say, then, that tax fraud is probably one of the most honorable crimes one can commit.  It certainly is much more helpful to society than paying taxes.

So where does your Federal tax money go?  I advise you to look at the Citizens Against Government Waste website.
http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer

2 comments:

elizabeth said...

The article said the school couldn't figure out how to use the cappuccino machines for the curriculum. How does one use cappuccino machines in teaching? No one teaches home economics any more. No shop classes, either. Perhaps that's part of our national problem. No one knows how to do practical problem solving any more. (Except for my kids)

EMO said...

ha ha ha.. that would have never happened in douglas county. :) not even allowed to drink coffee in front of the kids.... what a f'n waste!