Keith Ashdown
Keith Ashdown
almost bottom cost cut expensive final local money needs paying people pyramid
It's trickle-down contracting: You're paying a cut at every level, and it makes the final cost exponentially more expensive than it needs to be. And in almost every case, the local people who really need to be making the money are at the bottom of these upside-down pyramid schemes.
behavior bottom created energy industries pad profitable scheme sure
They've created a complicated scheme of making sure a lot of different profitable energy industries are going to make off like bandits, ... pad their bottom line, but it doesn't really create new behavior in the energy industry.
almost bottom local money people pyramid
And in almost every case, the local people who really need to be making the money are at the bottom of these upside-down pyramid schemes.
question
It's not a question of when, it's now.
harris members
If Katherine Harris put out the list, then 534 other members can do it too.
guarantee paid paying prices reviewed
I guarantee we're going to come back to this after everything has been reviewed and find we paid Nordstrom prices when we should have been paying Wal-Mart costs.
hilton money paris poor program save shoe spent
It's ironic. This program was set up to save money. But because of poor oversight, it has spent money like Paris Hilton at a shoe sale.
decisions good last minds money terrible
The last thing on people's minds are these good investments. We are making terrible decisions on where money goes.
people protecting supposed victims
We're supposed to be protecting the victims of the storms, not the people insuring them.
cost feeling kicked people percentage thousands
There could be a loophole of hundreds of thousands of people who would not be impacted. On a percentage of their income, they're the ones that are feeling (the cost increase) a lot, lot more. Some of us have been kicked, but they've been kicked in the teeth.
business people
We need to get out of the business of subsidizing people who are in harm's way.
bill history known
This bill will be known as the most earmarked transportation bill in the history of our nation.
absolute agency clue head highway math robbery value
This is absolute highway robbery and it really does show that the agency doesn't have a clue in getting real value of contracts. I've done the math in my head 100 times and I don't know how they computed this cost.
belts everybody fly luxury telling
If they're telling everybody to tighten their belts and they're leasing these luxury cars, it just doesn't fly in Peoria.