IMF/WB protests & fed gov spending

[Jlcranford at aol.com]

<PRE>a perhaps unexpected result of the imf/wb protests in dc:  the meetings are 
in late september and coincide with the end of the u.s. government's fiscal 
year -- when frenzied gov. workers rush to spend every penny available for 
that year (often into the wee hours of the last day, often with the main 
reason for buying something being that it's available on short notice and, 
eh, might be useful - sometime, somewhere, to someone).  but -- many fed 
workers stay home to avoid potentially disruptive protests in downtown dc, 
thus impeding the end-of-fiscal-year ritual.