| BFR said: So, Pi are the CDC picnic tables " a waste sure" or are they justified? |
I will answer this for you, no they were not a waste. Each government agency has a budget and if the tables were within the agency budget then they should get the tables. That is why private and federal companies have budgets. The budget get spent on a number of things from nonsensical to operational you name it. My company pays for a Christmas party every year that must cost a mil or 2. That can easily be considered as wasteful but each year they budget out for that party even though it has no real value outside of employees engagement and happiness.
The picnic tables would be considered wasteful if the CDC had to ask for an increase in its budget to afford the tables. As with any one of these cherry picked articles it never gives you a complete picture. instead what they do is cherry pick specific things then build a narrative around that subject but what you will never see in that narrative is a true investigative story where they ask the question, what lead to the table purchase, what funds were used, did the CDC cut funding on other stuff to pay for it. What was the decision on the tables purchase instead of cheaper solutions.
The thing is you have absolutely no clue on the decision process. One thing about a budget, is that you spend the money in the budget. Its not like its going back to someone else or will be absorbed to do something else and for all you know, what was used for the tables already came out of funds that would usually be used for employees engagement and happiness like a Christmas party but was used here instead because of COVID.
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