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Trump Campaign Overhaul
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Quote:This reminded me of my early days at COJ. The IT division charged all city departments for disk space as one way of allocating hardware costs equitably among city agencies. When the payroll system was upgraded to the latest (and probably last) version of COBOL in the mid-80s, the paymaster refused to allow us to expand date fields to accommodate 2 extra digits for the century. It's the taxpayer's money, he said, program around it if it becomes a problem. He wasn't about to waste money on unneeded disk space, and somehow got the department head to not only back him up, but also made it policy for all city financial systems. Cool story, bro. But seriously, it is a rather interesting look into governing. What is politically expedient may be costly in the long run... Denying climate change, for instance. Or refusing to invest in infrastructure upgrades because you want to be fiscally conservative. Or cutting art and music classes in schools... Short term savings can lead to huge losses in the long run. |
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