I edited my post, but to answer your question, considering private businesses TRY at ALL times to turn a profit, I would imagine that rampant spending from department to department on things not needed would be caught and shut down pretty quickly unless the business wants to go bankrupt or management fired.
Governments don't think that way, and I know here in Manitoba despite the constant deficit spending and possibility of a credit rating downgrade, there is absolutely NO attention being paid to the fact that there are places to cut spending, but nobody wants to shut down the government freebies.
I personally know of schools that bought a bunch of iPads with extra school board funding and they only had to 'cite' educational reasons. Now some of the iPads are being used for personal reasons that have nothing to do with school work.
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