While I completely agree with you that spending $4,000 on these slack bots is a waste of time, that is still a minute fraction of the cost of "unbillable" items

While I completely agree with you that spending $4,000 on these slack bots is a waste of time, that is still a minute fraction of the cost of "unbillable" items listed by this article. Why not submit an FOIA request on one of the other items instead, such as the $140k spend on "developing the brand" and find out what actually involved? [0] If you really want to be outraged by a waste of taxpayer dollars, I would recommend that you take a look at how much state governments are overspending on prisons vs education [1], wasteful spending in defense [2], and the $8.5 trillion in unaccounted taxpayer dollars spent on defense [3]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12793035 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12793035 [1] http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/01/pf/college/higher-education-prison-state-spending/ http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/01/pf/college/higher-education-... [2] http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/10/29/where-did-us-taxpayer-money-go-tale-afghanistan-43m-gas-station.html http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/10/29/where-did-us-taxp... [3] http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2015/03/19/85-Trillion-Unaccounted-Should-Congress-Increase-Defense-Budget http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2015/03/19/85-Trillion-Unaccou...