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<blockquote data-quote="SMS" data-source="post: 2123238" data-attributes="member: 42">Some of the cuts are real...not just decreases of increases from last year.&nbsp; Mostly because it is happening in the middle of the fiscal year.&nbsp; Its the equivalent of your wife saying &quot;you have $XXX dollars to spend next week&quot;...so you plan on that $XXX.&nbsp; The week starts and you begin spending.&nbsp; Then on Wednesday, darling bride says &quot;oh, did I say $XXX? You actually only have $XX...so you then have to roll back planned expenditures for the rest of the week, especially if you&#039;ve already spent a good chunk of the originally promised amount.In the case of the furloughs, man hours are part of the planned expenditures that have to be rolled back to make it through the rest of the fiscal year because large chunks have already been paid out in contracts and projects that can&#039;t be recouped.&nbsp; It&#039;s still doable, but just poorly planned.&nbsp; That&#039;s why we need things like budgets and spending plans...but that concept seems to be lost on our leaders.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SMS, post: 2123238, member: 42"] Some of the cuts are real...not just decreases of increases from last year. Mostly because it is happening in the middle of the fiscal year. Its the equivalent of your wife saying "you have $XXX dollars to spend next week"...so you plan on that $XXX. The week starts and you begin spending. Then on Wednesday, darling bride says "oh, did I say $XXX? You actually only have $XX...so you then have to roll back [I]planned[/I] expenditures for the rest of the week, especially if you've already spent a good chunk of the originally promised amount. In the case of the furloughs, man hours are part of the planned expenditures that have to be rolled back to make it through the rest of the fiscal year because large chunks have already been paid out in contracts and projects that can't be recouped. It's still doable, but just poorly planned. That's why we need things like [I]budgets[/I] and spending plans...but that concept seems to be lost on our leaders. [/QUOTE]

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