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In reply to the discussion: Pierce: FEMA Gave a 1-Person Company $156 Million to Deliver Meals in Puerto Rico [View all]alarimer
(17,146 posts)26. From what I've read, she knows how to game the contracting system.
And part of it has to do with the fact that government contracts can preferentially be given to woman- or minority-owned businesses.
But also the contracting agency needs to do due diligence, which they clearly didn't do, at least in terms of whether this company could actually do the work.
This, in a nutshell, is what happens when government is run by incompetent people. Trump (like Bush before him) appoints people who literally cannot do the job, are not interested in doing the job, and whose intention is to run the government into the ground.
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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
And yet, SpaceX just proved a rocket that costs $90M compared to Saturn V; cost $1.16bn
AtheistCrusader
Feb 2018
#10
I didn't disagree with them. I disagreed with you. They didn't use your unqualified, incorrect absol
AtheistCrusader
Feb 2018
#35
That costs issue is a side effect of requiring hospitals to care for everyone.
AtheistCrusader
Feb 2018
#34
Privatization which used both the experience and the launch pad of the US govt.
LanternWaste
Feb 2018
#24
If someone digs hard I'm sure they will find a high administration connection with her.
lark
Feb 2018
#4
Please investigate the Trump's regime management of Puerto Rico's relief efforts now!
IluvPitties
Feb 2018
#6
"O Lord, thank you for this day. Please forgive me for my knowing and unknowing sins."
MrsCoffee
Feb 2018
#25