Frustrations...

Government spending, now there's a frustration. Now that I'm a civil servant, I get to see first hand how frivolous government spending is. And I'm just talking about STATE spending! We step over dollars to pick up pennies, every day. It's ridiculous! I know you don't need an example but here are just a few anyway;
Apparently, every new Governor gets to make up his own 'slogan' for the state. Our new Governor picked, "Indiana, a State that works". It even has a logo;

I don't like it. Mainly because our state is always complaining about not having/keeping, high paying/high tech jobs. This logo/slogan makes us look like a manufacturing state. Which is fine. But then shut up about not having any tech jobs! Here's the frivolous spending part...They turned it into a big lighted sign along the top of a building across from the statehouse - at a cost of $50,000.00
I guess the Governor liked it so much, he commissioned TWO more, bigger ones, on the north and south facing walls of a building behind the statehouse. Yeah, we get it, gov. We don't really need 3 of them. And frankly, you didn't ask me if it was okay to spend my money on that! Humph.

Here's another example;
I rented a mini van for a group of 4 employees, traveling to Chicago for a couple days. The agency in charge of spending money for traveling said, no, get them a sedan. So 4 people, 4 laptops, 4 pc of some kind of luggage, were expected to cram into a sedan for a 4 hour drive, in order to save the state $32.00. BUT...another traveler wanted to take the train to Chicago, round trip cost $20. Saving the state the cost for the rental car, fuel costs, parking at the hotel ($63 a day) which totaled close to $300. You guessed it, the state said no to the train. 

Again, I don't appreciate you throwing my money away like that. FRUSTRATING! I have at least a dozen more examples but I know you know what I'm talking about.