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				Re: My God, you are an idiot.
			 
 
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					Originally Posted by sgtclub  They overpay.  I have a client whose main customer is a fed agency. The client (a smaller company in the industry), can do projects for a 10th of what the big industry players charge.  The numbers are astounding. We are talking hundreds of millions per project of waste. |  The point of stimulus is to stimulate the economy.  What you are calling waste may not be the most efficient way to spend the money if all you are concerned about is getting the most bang for the government buck, but it does not explain how it takes $250K to create a job. Obviously, the money is going somewhere, which means it's stimulating the economy.
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