Why Did the Government Pay Edward Snowden $122,000?
20th June 2013
Hint: They’re spending your money, not their money.
Let me run that by you again: Contractors didn’t just perform services for a higher cost than it would cost to pay federal exmployess to do the same thing, they also charged the government more than the going rate within the private market for such services. Of course, that makes sense because contractors earn profits by being the middleman. If Booz Allen hires a computer expert at the going market rate of, say, $100,000 a year, it’s not going to make any money if it then bills the government that same amount. It only makes money if it bills more and keeps the difference.
But the obvious question here is why should we taxpayers be underwriting private middlemen who live in mansions in McLean?
Hint: Because they’re the Crust, and you’re not.