It’s Probably Nothing

12 Replies to “It’s Probably Nothing”

1. There must be a zombie apocalypse ahead.

2. When the money runs out, Treasury wants the bank staff to stay on-site for a few days, just until they can print a little more green to pay off the bank run.

3. Liberal demacrts answers to everything TAX AND SPEND,TAX AND SPEND,TAX AND SPEND

4. Do the math.
   They’re budgeting $200000 on this. This is for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Check out the survival kits in the solicitation (PDF); the total for each would run about a hundred bucks at Canadian Tire for nearly all the items on the list; I’ve already got almost all of it in my camping gear. There’s going to be overhead for red tape and grease on this, so double that and call it $200 per kit.
   This is 1000 one-person-day survival kits, spread out to bureaucrats across a country of 300 million, which has had devastating terrorist attacks within recent memory. It’s a distraction.

5. Ed Minchau >
   “It’s a distraction”
   Yea, but lets now add up the billions of rounds of hollow point ammunition picked up in bit’s and blocks of millions and billions for government agency’s around the country.
   It’s a good distraction.

6. They’re so evil that when the apocalypse comes they’ll gladly bed down in survival gear with their colleagues rather than try to get home to their families?

7. Matt: Just think of it as a target rich environment.

8. The deal probably went down something like this:
   A bureaucrat was probably out of pocket from a rare incident for
   which he couldn’t get reimbursement approval so he raised a stink.
   So the stink moved up the line. So regulations were changed.
   So no one “had approval for the person hours” needed to sort out
   which gov budgets qualified for the new item and which didn’t.
   So it went in as an approved budget item everywhere.
   So if an approved budget item isn’t utilized ………………………

9. And why can’t the banks afford this themselves? Why must the tax payer be burdened with this? I smell a self dealing liberal crony making a sale.

10. It’s doubly absurd. Are they expecting their staff to be holed up in their offices? And doesn’t a “survival” kit include an Uzi?

11. It is absurd. The US government fiscal year 2014 deficit was $483000000000. That $200000 is equivalent to one and a half seconds of deficit spending. In the time it took me to look up the deficit and write this, the US government has borrowed and spent 100 times as much as that already.
    And yes, a survival kit should include some way of warding off large predators, human or otherwise.

12. When ordinary bank accounts are seized, as they were in CYPRUS……. those kits will come in mighty handy.