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TheDebbieDee

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3. This is what PRIVATIZATION of goverment services

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Tue Feb 6, 2018, 06:03 PM

Feb 2018

gets us for our tax dollars. PRIVATIZATION DOESN'T WORK! It costs more money than it saves...

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Pierce: FEMA Gave a 1-Person Company $156 Million to Deliver Meals in Puerto Rico [View all] babylonsister Feb 2018 OP

:( Cha Feb 2018 #1

Trump and friends, like this one, are stealing billions from us. Eliot Rosewater Feb 2018 #2

This is what PRIVATIZATION of goverment services TheDebbieDee Feb 2018 #3

And yet, SpaceX just proved a rocket that costs $90M compared to Saturn V; cost $1.16bn AtheistCrusader Feb 2018 #10

And all of the monitring and regulating and checking that you mention TheDebbieDee Feb 2018 #13

That is simply untrue. AtheistCrusader Feb 2018 #21

That is simply untrue? Well, tell it to the Nobel Prize TheDebbieDee Feb 2018 #31

I didn't disagree with them. I disagreed with you. They didn't use your unqualified, incorrect absol AtheistCrusader Feb 2018 #35

The failure of the American healthcare system Doodley Feb 2018 #32

That costs issue is a side effect of requiring hospitals to care for everyone. AtheistCrusader Feb 2018 #34

Gosh, yes, what dopes those NASA guys were, starting from scratch... JHB Feb 2018 #14

Shall we compare costs of the Delta IV Heavy and the Falcon Heavy? AtheistCrusader Feb 2018 #22

Privatization which used both the experience and the launch pad of the US govt. LanternWaste Feb 2018 #24

See post 22 where I already shredded this argument. AtheistCrusader Feb 2018 #28

Except that doesn't actually compare true costs mythology Feb 2018 #37

Wrong. AtheistCrusader Feb 2018 #38

If someone digs hard I'm sure they will find a high administration connection with her. lark Feb 2018 #4

Puerto Rico is forgotten thbobby Feb 2018 #5

...because they speak Spanish. Iggo Feb 2018 #23

And They're All Darkish ProfessorGAC Feb 2018 #29

Please investigate the Trump's regime management of Puerto Rico's relief efforts now! IluvPitties Feb 2018 #6

TRUMP and his friends are CROOKS !!!!!! trueblue2007 Feb 2018 #7

Trump's not only a crook but a "change candidate" who Hortensis Feb 2018 #36

Last I heard. Blue_true Feb 2018 #8

trump laudromat expanded? Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2018 #9

Funneling a whole lot of money to a one or two person firm ehrnst Feb 2018 #11

Yep. I want to know who is connected to her or this company. babylonsister Feb 2018 #19

From what I've read, she knows how to game the contracting system. alarimer Feb 2018 #26

Only the best people! Draining the swamp! MrPurple Feb 2018 #12

Or in this case, only the best PERSON. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Feb 2018 #16

Her undergrad degree was from Spellman. But... trof Feb 2018 #15

ugh obamanut2012 Feb 2018 #40

K&R nt ProudProgressiveNow Feb 2018 #17

Thank you for posting this. You are putting up some good things. PatrickforO Feb 2018 #18

The good Dr. Tiffany C Brown... Whiskeytide Feb 2018 #20

"O Lord, thank you for this day. Please forgive me for my knowing and unknowing sins." MrsCoffee Feb 2018 #25

That Number in Pierce's 2nd Paragraph Can't Be Right ProfessorGAC Feb 2018 #27

Why won't the Feds leverage the MRE exboyfil Feb 2018 #30

That would make a lot of sense. Doodley Feb 2018 #33

She used an Atanta wedding caterer to freeze dry soup obamanut2012 Feb 2018 #39