"The federal goverment has an apparent taste for pricey shellfish, chowing down on $4.6 million worth of lobster tail and crab in the final month of the fiscal year 2018, according to OpenTheBooks.comThe use-it-or-lose-it spending spree last year racked up $97 billion of U.S. tax payer money on 509,828 contracts, an increase of more than 16 percent compared to the prior year.
“We looked at the year, it was $22 million spent by the Pentagon on lobster tail alone, over the course of the past four years on lobster tail alone it was nearly $55 million,”...
...“More than half of [the spending] was in the last week,” Andrzejewski said on “Bulls & Bears Opens a New Window. .”
“Incredibly, one out of every ten contracts procured during the entire year was spent in the last week.”...
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