You just really have a hard-on for camera crews it seems; I don't know what your issue with them is. They tend to be your basic blue collar bunch. Anyway, why would I expect them to have great insights about budgets?
Oh, you are trying to be satirical! You don't like the fact that some of them didn't think very highly of one of your heroes. I get it now! How awesomely clever of you!
Originally Posted by Old-T
Actually, camera crews don't turn me on. You are getting confused.
I don't have an "issue" with camera crews, it is my recollection that at one time you professed you got your inside information from camera crew members since they had the "inside scope" in D.C.!!!
My budget experience in my own business and examining other businesses was helpful, but the relevant experience of mine was handling budget proposals and presentations, overseeing and monitoring the expenditures during the budget year, and reconciling at the end of the year in anticipation of the upcoming cycle ... which included bidding on projects or submitting proposals to demonstrate the exception to the mandatory bidding process ... then oversight of the construction projects to assure they were on time and within budget. I was transferred budgets because I was able to procure at substantial savings and remain within budgets, which provided me an opportunity to expand requests for the upcoming year.
It was necessary for me to meet federal guidelines and to the extent the funds were locally consumed, the local guidelines, when there were project issues requiring local regulations. The period of time spanned roughly 35-40 years.
I consider the money to belong to the taxpayers, and not mine, although I was also a taxpayer. That was and is my point.
A legislative body authorizes categories of expenditures, but rarely gets into the weeds of the daily disbursements, paying more attention to broad leakage of funds and not trickles. My responsibility was assuring the expenditures were proper for the category and expectations within the authorizations.
A problem on here with people like you is you "presume" you know more about the topic than anyone else. You repeatedly show you don't!