I have a short answer: no, because you have to have a budget review mechanism. A budget is a forecast. We revise our budgets. What's difficult is that we're being asked to draw up a budget now and we're being told that the amount won't increase. That's not realistic. It's not difficult to draw up a budget and put numbers to things, but our sources of funding are being limited. And then there's the accounting. If I've been a partner for 26 years, met all my goals and always produced good results, it would be nice if I were given most of the money and told that the funding had been approved. What I find bizarre is that I'm told not to worry because the money is in a government account. I would like that money to be in my account.
On April 3rd, 2008. See this statement in context.