So round down to a number you think is actually reasonable. Less than 1% without any additional information should be treated as being close to 1%. If it were close to 0.5%, they'd have said "about half a percent" or something similar. So it's reasonable to assume that it's close enough to 1% to use 1% as a proxy.
My bad, I typed the denominator wrong.
OMG!!!!! We absolutely have to allow fraud and waste and inefficiencies to keep eating up taxpayer money, there's no possible way we could avoid that. People are going to DIE!!!
Are we still pretending to be stupid enough to believe this is about fraud and waste?
That's what I'm trying to work out. Who needs cards for what, and how did Muskrat and the Minions figure out what was needed and by who in like... thirty minutes? I kind of assume government is a little stingy with giving out free credit cards, and they get gone over line by line?
IOW, the intent was, indeed, to curtail purchasing, as was said, and as you tried to deny. Again, the instruction was to shut down purchasing on *all cards*, not just an identified subset of them. The plan was then to (possibly, no promises) reinstate purchasing power for an arbitrarily-set maximum of cards, if the agency could justify their use to some unspecified degree of satisfaction.
Indeed, issuing a card is a favored method in, for example, the armed forces for enabling servicepeople on TDY to pay for their expenses. Also, for agencies that operate a lot of smaller local facilities (such as, say VA clinics) or branch offices so that they can purchase things they need without having to go through some centralized supply system in Washington. I mean, that's what Republicans want, right? To have a government that can deliver service with a minimum of bloated Beltway bureaucracy?
HA! I am the Man of a Million Faces! When the leopard eats one, I don another!
A Hungarian (John Cleese) enters a tobacconist's shop<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Hungarian_Phrasebook#cite_note-AllTheWords-p16-2"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></a> carrying a Hungarian-to-English phrasebook and begins a dialogue with the tobacconist (Terry Jones); he wants to buy cigarettes, but his phrasebook's translations are wholly inaccurate and have no resemblance to what he wants to say.
Proust!
I am certainly able to conceive of a way *not* to do it.
Hey, I can police a little tone, you know, as a treat
*looks at phrase book* I cannot buy this face. It is eaten.
