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Budapest Fireworks Procurement Scandal Leaves Bureaucrats Sobbing Over Billion-Forint Budgets

Budapest Fireworks Procurement Scandal Leaves Bureaucrats Sobbing Over Billion-Forint Budgets

Hungary's new pro-EU government slashed state fireworks spending while accidentally leaking a paper trail that proved their transparent bidding process was about as authentic as a plastic sombrero. While politicians in Budapest cry tears of bureaucratic anguish over a modest 4-billion-forint pyrotechnic bill, down here in Baja we are too busy watching the Pacific swell deck out the coastline to care about European spreadsheet weeping.

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