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.

South of us, they sent Conrad to jail for what they term “dishonest services”. If he’s there, which he is, he should have lots of company.

Here we have an Auditor General that continues to lambaste the Government for reckless spending and horrid management and oversight. Our Premier, a few weeks back said something to the effect of “you don’t like it, unelect me at the appropriate opportunity”.

When will stop saying things like “Government Waste” and accepting it as just incompetence?

And is it enough to “unelect him”, he then gets a wonderful pension, is that they way we reward and will continue to reward ‘waste’?