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Re:Paramilitary police: Cops or soldiers? by Oculus on Sunday March 23, 2014 @04:29AM (#7452597)
No one in large organizations wants to leave their budget unspent so they can get more of it the following year. It's actually a culture in enterprise/government organizations to blow what's left of one's budget before the end of the year. I think this is the culture that brought us from $100m to $6 billion.
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Re:Paramilitary police: Cops or soldiers? by sandstrom on Sunday March 23, 2014 @04:48AM (#7452628)
I agree on the budget practice of spending it all to avoid a cut next year. I think that's very common.

Small note though: I think the $100 ($93.7) to $6B was an increase in seized assets.

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Re:Paramilitary police: Cops or soldiers? by polynomial on Sunday March 23, 2014 @12:36PM (#7453933)
Is there no incentive to spend the seized assets as well?
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