Definitely bad spending, no question about it. I think of these past bad expenditures as "sunk costs", never to be recouped. I am writing about the future, which without more spending, will result in more homelessness and the attendant social, medical and human costs. Society is evolving and we must try to meet the problems which are confronting us. For example, I would support higher salaries for public employees if those higher costs incorporated improved training so that civil servants would be better prepared to address the challenges of the day, such as cyber threats, need for better IT in areas such as taxation and medical management. Our employees are not well matched against some of these outland contractors or unusual IT situations. Also, I am not so sure that the health connector was intended to be the fiasco that it seems to be.....I believe that there were other forces driving this choice. It is now easy to look back and say, "we should not have done it."  Monday morning QB