Lot of that "not thinking like a government" going around:
Indiana lottery officials say they overspent on their new headquarters and will sell some of their equipment after reports raised questions about the lavish facility.
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Hoosier Lottery Chairman William Zielke said Wednesday the organization wasn't thinking like a government agency when leaders approved some of the amenities at the new office, located in a former auto dealership showroom.
He said the exercise equipment will be sold and the space will be used another way.
"If there was an error here, it was in the desire to make this a great place to work, and perhaps in the enthusiasm for that, we lost track a little bit of the foot that we also have in government," Zielke said. "We operate in a little bit different environment here, but that environment is not so far removed from the government that we shouldn't keep an eye on their standards."
Translation, if I may: "Dammit, we were found out!"
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The lottery itself is little more than a tax on the stupid. Who can blame the lottery officials if they couldn't think of anything else to do with all that money?
The state lottery makes Bernie Madoff look like a piker.
I was driving past the outlet mall last week, and I noticed this building. The DEA on this building surely isn't the Drug Enforcement Administration, is it?
http://www.canthook.com/alice/dea.jpg
In any case, the DEA seems to be a prime example of waste in government. Instead of trying to arrest drug users and drug dealers, we should simply let actions have their natural consequences, and think of it as evolution in action.