plowhog
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Don't want to hijack the thread-- so this is my last post on this subject.And people wonder why everything is so expensive these days. The level of ridiculousness our society has reached is impressive.
Things got weirder after my company quit contracting due to the minority participation requirement. We started getting solicitations that, for payment of a fee, a "minority owned company" would sign a certification they had done the required contract participation. Many of these were just business licenses, with no actual company, and no intention of doing any work. The solicitations described "no audit trails" (hint hint.) A whole industry sprung up where minorities could pay $25 for a business license and then reap fees as job "partners."
A famous one was an inmate serving life in Folsom prison. He somehow still had a business license. He was advertising that for a fee of 5% of the contract total he would sign any certification so the contractor would get paid. Serving life-- do you think he was worried about a fraud charge?