the white house fence

[Rev Tex Devlle]

>: White House Fence

>
>Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken fence at the White
House in
>DC: One is from New York ,
> another is from Tennessee
>and the third, is from
>Florida .
>All three go with a White House official to examine the fence.
>
>The Florida contractor takes out a tape measure and does some
measuring,
>then works some figures with a pencil.
> 'Well,' he says, 'I figure the job
>will run about $900:
>$400 for materials,
> $400 for my crew and
>$100 profit for me.'
>
>The Tennessee contractor also does some measuring and figuring, then
says,
>'I can do this job for $700:
> $300 for materials,
>$300 for my crew and
>$100 profit for me.'
>
>The New York contractor doesn't measure or figure,
> but leans over to the
>White House official and whispers, '$2,700.'
>
>The official, incredulous, says,
>'You didn't even measure like the other
>guys!
>How did you come up with such a high figure?'
>
>The New York contractor whispers back,
>'$1000 for me,
> $1000 for you,
> and we
>hire the guy from Tennessee to fix the fence.'
>
>'Done!' replies the government official.
> And that,
> my friends,
> is how
>government contracting works!
>

 

[Sam_Fear]

HA!

 

[Bonehead]

That is so close to reality I am afraid to think about it.

 

[earthman]

I would like to see this country wake up to the fact that this government is as corrupt as any.

 

[50Ford]

That is really funny, and really sad at the same time.

 

[DirtWorshiper]

If you only knew how true your joke is!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[donsrods]

Very close to the truth, and it is on so many levels. At one time I worked for a bearing company, not the little bearings like used on wheels, but huge, mill sized bearings used by Steel Mills and big factories. Every Christmas we had a list come down from our home office of various buyers at these mills, and it ranked them in importance of gifts. Junior buyers were rated at a "C" and got stuff like towel sets. Buyers a little further up the line got a "B" rating and were given booze or even stereos. The "A" buyers were the heads of purchasing departments, and they got stuff like season tickets to Steeler games, big TV sets, and in one case, a brand new Ford Bronco.

The funny part was that the Junior buyers would return the gifts with a note saying "company policy prohibits us from accepting gifts", but their bosses NEVER returned the very expensive gifts we gave them.

Now we know why a hammer costs the Government $ 15,000.00.

Don

 

[Sam_Fear]

Now we know why a hammer costs the Government $ 15,000.00.
Don

You wouldn't want 'em to use a cheap 10$ hammer on a 1Bil$ project would ya?

 

[Willowbilly3]

Did you know;
After a hurricane when Fema sends money to "help" they allocate $150 per square (10'x10') for the temporary roofs, called blue roof because it is blue tatps nailed down with 1x2. The guys that actually do the work get $15 per square and the rest is consumed by layers of subcontactors.
Also we did debris removal after Katrina. In most cases the people actually doing the work were 8-10 layers down from the prime contractor. And FWIW there is only enough money to sift to about level 7, everyone below that gets boned. Aske me how I know.