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

Tue Feb 6, 2018, 06:56 PM

Feb 2018

Those are adjusted to the current dollar value.

One point one six billion vs. ninety million.

Privatization CAN work. Can produce amazing results. But it requires rigorous oversight and monitoring. Not months after the fact. During approval. During periodic checks. Post-mortem. From stem to stern, there must be a competent contract, review of the proposals and bids, the winner must be held to the letter of the contract.

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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

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