Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Government at Work - on Quarter-mile markers
In difficult financial times, this makes little sense.
I wonder just whose brother-in-law makes those markers...
I wonder just whose brother-in-law makes those markers...
W.C. Augustine reported this at RebelPundit.com:
"According to Toll officials the project will cost $563,000, or $125 per sign, which are manufactured at the Illinois Tollway Authority-owned sign shop in Naperville, Ill. A spokesman could not answer my question whether the $125 included only material costs or reflected total costs. Manufacturing experts expect the $125 to only include the cost of the post, metal sign and multiple reflective paint layers. Given that manufacturing norms are an equal amount labor costs to material costs and at least 30% overhead, the cost would most likely be nearer $330 per sign if, that is, we assume the state-run plant is as efficient as private industry."
