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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (397711)	7/10/2008 3:56:35 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574863

The nature of bureaucracies is the preservation of budgets. If you don't spend all the money given to you, you will end up with less money to spend next year. The result is that every government agency finds some way to spend it all, whether they really need to or not. You think the same isn't true in the private sector? That's the nature of any organization. One of my favorite examples is the CIA. How much money did it get before 9/11? How much money afterwards? How much money did it get before Iraq? How much money afterwards? And how well did the CIA perform in both instances? Very poorly, but that seems to reward well. Same could be said for CEO pay at a lot of private companies...