• @CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world
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    428 months ago

    Government spending 101:
    Paying private sector rates? unnafordable!
    Paying a private company who pays their employees those same private sector rates plus a huge margin on top? totally reasonable!

    • Rentlar
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      38 months ago

      Sorry that’s the lowest/only rate we got for tender, lol.

    • @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      Or: the only way we could get this crazy group of senators whose votes we need is by devising the program in such a convoluted and inefficient way such that it’s politically un-killable (read: SLS).