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Friday, July 21, 2006

Waste, waste, whoopee!

The truckloads of money spent with little or no oversight at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey boggles the mind. It's as if a whole bunch of blank checkbooks were tossed about in the offices with an invitation to "Shop till ya drop!"

It stuns me that there are so many who are so willing to be so dirty with so much of our money. Stories of state money used to throw holiday parties, millions spent on "consultants" and lobbyists, $88.3 million going to various vendors without approved purchase orders, a trustee who muscled a relative into a job - a job for which the relative was unqualified until the criteria were downgraded. The salary, of course, wasn't downgraded.

I'd love to know how many people are on the government books who do little or no work. I know there are plenty of hard-working government employees, likely picking up the slack for their connected colleagues who show up and do nothing ... if they show up at all. That's got to drive them nuts.

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