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Default $246,436 per job

On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 21:26:01 -0500, the infamous "Buerste"
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Why would you say I don't know what I'm talking about? I made no
commentary one way or the other.

However, now that you bring it up, the author makes an interesting point
about each job costing nearly a quarter million dollars.

Which one of the frisbee golf course job applicants is going to be our
next solar industry giant?


My favorite is Murtha Airport.


Mine is the $40 million they spent on building a brand new a Navy dock
in Hawaii even though they shut down the base 4 years earlier. Stossel
reported that a decade ago in one of his exposés.

--
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen
to what the world tells you you ought to prefer,
is to have kept your soul alive.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
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