Government Hired a Firm for $13.6M to Hire Recruits. It Hired 2
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#2The contract is 297 million for $7,500 recruits, or $39,000 per potential recruit.
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#3Accenture. Why am I not surprised?
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#4One of the reasons why CBP loves the current administration, their new policies effectively lifted any limits on overtime. For a person with ten years seniority, if they're bored and want some OT, border patrol guys can sit around in a pickup truck listening to the radio clocking those 150% wage hours.
It is not uncommon for a CBP or ICE officer, with OT, to be in the $130k+ salary range now.
And these are in places with relatively low cost of living, compared to a big city, like Ferry County, WA.
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Government can do things well, or badly
Private sector can do things well, or badly
I don't see what people find so hard to understand about this
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What this shows me is how inefficient and corrupt a private company is. It also shows me how effective this one government agency is at rooting out corruption before 5% of a contracted amount has been spent.
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#8“There are four ways in which you can spend money. You can spend your own money on yourself. When you do that, why then you really watch out what you’re doing, and you try to get the most for your money. Then you can spend your own money on somebody else. For example, I buy a birthday present for someone. Well, then I’m not so careful about the content of the present, but I’m very careful about the cost. Then, I can spend somebody else’s money on myself. And if I spend somebody else’s money on myself, then I’m sure going to have a good lunch! Finally, I can spend somebody else’s money on somebody else. And if I spend somebody else’s money on somebody else, I’m not concerned about how much it is, and I’m not concerned about what I get. And that’s government.”
-Milton Friedman
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#9We should see this for what it really is - hidden unemployment benefit for people "working" at Accenture. Or hidden basic income, call it whatever you want. Our level of economic development and accumulated wealth is so great that without these sorts of "stimulus" the majority of the population would be unemployed or work just a couple of days per week [0]. And the conspiracy theorist inside me suspects that the government cannot allow it. With so much free time at their hands people might get creative and get some strange ideas and so on.
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#10In other news, Obama paid millions for a broke health exchange website coded by people in a 3rd world country whose day job was tending to livestock.