Oh no. Man I had no idea what you were trying to say on first read. No. It’s just this shit happens all the time in Tennessee. Our State Government gets told what the fundamental issue is, they create some cheap stop-gap solution, it fails two or three years down the road.

Like if you ever drive on Interstate 24 in Tennessee this kind of thing is in your face like all the time. Also the State prison healthcare going on here is just chef kiss perfect example of failing to understand root cause.

“Prisoners keep dying in prison because of sickness, I know! Let’s just privatize it.” Prisoners keep dying. “I don’t know where we went wrong?!” It’s hard to feel like justice is served if everything that lands someone in prison exposes them to a incredibly high rate of death by disease.

I doubt they do. Want to know why? Because nobody fucking bid on it.

It is personal to me because it was a no-bid contract for under $2 million that increased by over 700% to $14 million of money directly from taxpayers. This is my money.

Want to try to defend that, or…?

Are you familiar with large capital projects and how much a project funded by public money is allowed to increase by legally? Because I am.

It’s 20% the original contract amount in most places. Not 700%.

We all had to pay for it.

This sounds like you’re a conservative on Lemmy. Fuckin weird.