44 Full-Body Scanners for $11-million.

Let’s forget about privacy and all the other nilly willy issues. 44Million works out to only $250K each. Seems like a bargain to me. Bet’ya if someone does a Freedom of Information request on this one, they’d see it likely cost $100,000 to install each machine. And it will likely cost $509,000 annually to staff each unit – yes, each one, each year - $509,000 per unit. That’s $22,422,400 a year. That should be the headline. Not the $11-million acquisition cost.

How? They say - 2 people to run each. At $35 an hour for supplied cost – how? Don’t forget the Manager, the Supervisor, standby people for sick days, HR Officers, Fairness Officer, bookkeeper, profit for the supplier, etc etc etc so this leaves likely $12 to $15 for the Operators. Yes each of the two – they won’t be splitting the $15. But now back to how - $35 x 2 people x 20 hours x 7 days x 52 weeks x 44 units – and we’re back to that twenty-two million dollar number. Oh, and $35 is likely the low end of the hourly rate – think more like $50 and for real aggravation. Not included in the above numbers are: benefits, pensions, holiday time. All additional contributions which the governments will have to pay back to whoever runs the money show.

Acquisition cost? Bahh Humbug.