AS we approach the season of public funds being splurged in a rush to empty budgets before the financial year end (is there a road in Glasgow not being dug up at the moment?)
AS we approach the season of public funds being splurged in a rush to empty budgets before the financial year end (is there a road in Glasgow not being dug up at the moment?)
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I wondered if a Herald reader might have a suggestion as to how we might run things better? The endless cycle of money being wasted rather than kept for the following budget year is both idiotic and unaffordable; short-term thinking at its worst.
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Rush to spend budgets is folly
AS we approach the season of public funds being splurged in a rush to empty budgets before the financial year end (is there a road in Glasgow not being dug up at the moment?)
I wondered if a Herald reader might have a suggestion as to how we might run things better? The endless cycle of money being wasted rather than kept for the following budget year is both idiotic and unaffordable; short-term thinking at its worst.
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