This disturbs me. It’s the way politicians think; That if you have a budget and its the government budget you should make sure you spend the whole budget. Never thought of giving it back…

Mayor Bloomberg also criticized the MTA yesterday for spending only $30 million of a planned $600 million in post-9/11 security enhancements.

“The MTA has to ratchet up the pace of increasing security on our subway system,” Bloomberg said. “Clearly they’re not far enough along.”

MTA spokesman Brian Dolan said the MTA is spending $43 million a year for extra police salaries and security measures and will spend up to $400 million by the end of the year on long-term security projects

This is they way government program works. You are a director of widgets. The government budget is 100 million for your widget program.

After paying all of the salaries, purchasing all of your supplies for the whole year, you are 10 million under budget. Because of this , a month before the end of the fiscal year your next projected budget with raises etc is 95 million because the year prior you were 10 million under. Normally this should be perfectly fine but in this case, they go an buy 10 million dollars worth of something so that the next year the budget is 105 millon. Always spend more is the motto apparently.

That said, I do feel we should make sure we are taking extra precautions with our current security of the country, but jesus I hope we have someone holding them accountable for their budget.

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