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And I remember when this happened. What makes this even more of a debacle is that they traveled roughly 12 miles...for doughnuts. If I remember correctly, the cost for the flight was about $1800. But this kind of wasteful idiocy is nothing new here. A friend of mine works for the state of New Mexico. His department had 35 grand in budget surplus, so the heads told them to spend it. They looked around and said there's nothing we need, we don't need it. Spend it, was the reply. So they bought about 3 grand in totally unnecessary stuff and then someone else in the department decided to order calendars - 10 grand worth. When they arrived, they were passed out and made available, but they were quickly exposed as useless. She had ordered the prior year's calendars, the kind that have 18 months or whatever. A business would have returned them, but lacking incentives and saddled with only the goal of spending money, the calendars went into some storage area. Ten thousand dollars.