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-- 
- "Jesus was by all accounts tolerant. Jesus practiced tolerance towards 
others,
and even their sins, when it served his purpose.It served his purpose to 
tolerate the sin of his murder.
But John, that would mean Jesus was a man without convictions - so you lie 
again!!!"

"Fabrikant" <benny_patrick7@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:1120741929.239878.136910@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> It is astounding, how much time and energy is being spent on the
> sponsorship scandal and Gomery inquiry.  The latest estimation of the
> inquiry cost is $200 MILLION.  Now, what idiot would find it necessary
> to spend $200 MILLION to find out, how $250 MILLION were stolen,
> without recovering a penny?
>
> The funny part though, $250 million constitutes only a small portion of
> the total stolen money.  Some of it we do know, for example, $2 BILLION
> were stolen on firearms registry.  I use the word "stolen", rather then
> "spent", because there is no way one can actually SPEND this amount,
> say, by buying necessary equipment, salaries and external contracts.
> For example, you can hire 20 THOUSAND employees and pay them $100
> THOUSAND each for this money.  I do not think, they need even 100
> employees.  Remember, initial cost estimation for the whole registry
> was couple of millions.  Do you believe, one could make a 100,000%
> error?

Actually most the cost is for the computer system that doesn't work.
The government is not fair and open when assigning computer contracts or 
jobs.
They spend as much of computer systems as the private sector, but they only 
award contracts to a very few companies.
These companies know how to under-estimate costs to get the contracts, then 
bill a the work turns into way more than planned.
Often they are sold infrastucture that they don't need, or is not scaled to 
the project, then it all has to be scrapped and built again.
Computer systems, especially large ones can cost hundereds of millions of 
dollars. But the waste there is in the process of awarding contracts to 
companies that are less than incompetant, they know once the government is 
locked in, they can jjust keep jacking up the costs.


> It was reported back in May that the commission counsel Roy accumulated
> over $1 MILLION of salary.  Let us do some arithmetics.  The hearings
> started in September of 2004 and by May he worked less than 180 days.
> If you divide 1,000,000/180, he was paid over $5,500 per day, which
> comes to almost $700 per hour.  Not bad, isn't it?  Now, a good
> question to ask is: why would anyone agree to pay this kind of salary?
> The answer is obvious: the government is buying him off, so that he
> would do his best to whitewash all major criminals: Chretien, Martin
> and alike.

Hey you hired a lawyer to defend you for your multiple  murder charge, you 
should know a good lawyer charges around $350-$500/hour.
Oh, wait you fired your lawyer, because he ewanted to get you of by reason 
of insanity, and you defended yourself. You did such a bad Job of it that 
you actually made law. You changed it so that murders who defend themselves 
can nolonger speak directly to the victims or the victim's families.
You used your right to defend yourself to further attack those who survived 
and the families of those you murdered. And you are quoted in the law as one 
of two cases as to why you now have to ask your questions to a third party, 
and they will get the answers for you.

So $700/hr is not excessive for a seasoned judge, who should earn more than 
a seasoned lawyer per hour.
There is no hint of excess here.

>
> Gomery was appointed to the court in 1982 by Trudeau, so he is a
> Liberal appointee, and this is why he was chosen as a commissioner.  Is
> not it obvious that government should not be allowed to appoint the
> so-called "independent" commissioner?  Opposition should do that.  The
> next good question is: how much Gomery himself is being paid?  And you
> already know why.
>
> Fabrikant


Naw, tell you what genius, lets let you out of prison and you can run the 
Inquiry!
Only we won't charge the victims of your crimes if they happen to shoot you 
dead.
Sound like a fair deal? I think it is fair.