July 21, 2009
Moron Corrections Department, Overpriced Ham Edition
Fuck! And I thought we had us an awesome scandal to get worked up about.
The references to "2 pound frozen ham sliced" are to the sizes of the packaging. Press reports suggesting that the Recovery Act spent $1.191 million to buy "2 pounds of ham" are wrong. In fact, the contract in question purchased 760,000 pounds of ham for $1.191 million, at a cost of approximately $1.50 per pound. In terms of the dairy purchase referenced, USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA) purchased 837,936 pounds of mozzarella cheese and 4,039,200 pounds of processed cheese. The canned pork purchase was 8,424,000 pounds at a cost of $16,784,000, or approximately $1.99 per pound.
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Still, Drudge found that the gov is paying almost twice the price for a comparable ham at Food Lion.
Posted by: EC at July 21, 2009 07:41 AM (mAhn3)
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^true, but that just makes it garden variety Waste, Fraud, and Abuse, not Comically Asinine Retardation like this could have been
Posted by: eddiebear at July 21, 2009 07:59 AM (wnU1W)
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