Comments on: Your twit dollars at work http://www.dustbury.com/archives/9245 I couldn't possibly fail to disagree with you less. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:23:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: fillyjonk http://www.dustbury.com/archives/9245/comment-page-1#comment-24214 fillyjonk Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:52:36 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/?p=9245#comment-24214 $7500 is comparatively cheap. I once attended a university that spent some $70,000 on "focus group studies" to figure out how to improve its mascot. (I don't know what the place I am currently at spent to replace the un-PC mascot...and I don't want to know) $7500 is comparatively cheap.

I once attended a university that spent some $70,000 on “focus group studies” to figure out how to improve its mascot.

(I don’t know what the place I am currently at spent to replace the un-PC mascot…and I don’t want to know)

]]> By: unimpressed http://www.dustbury.com/archives/9245/comment-page-1#comment-24213 unimpressed Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:22:39 +0000 http://www.dustbury.com/?p=9245#comment-24213 Any time any government entity pays anything LESS than 200% of the "going rate", I figure we, the taxpayers, got off cheap. In the Private sector, anything -above- 50% is "overpaid". There really needs to be some semblance of equity between the two..... There is NO excuse for the 4:1 disparity in "acceptable" spending. Any time any government entity pays anything LESS than 200% of the “going rate”, I figure we, the taxpayers, got off cheap.

In the Private sector, anything -above- 50% is “overpaid”. There really needs to be some semblance of equity between the two…..

There is NO excuse for the 4:1 disparity in “acceptable” spending.

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