– Badtux the Fraud Penguin
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I am well aware of the difference between leasing and buying equipment, and who has the responsibility for repairs, based on warranties and lease agreements, but that doesn’t change the fact that leasing is almost never a more cost effective option than outright purchase where possible.
I’m not interested in ever working for the Federal government again, as I had a contract with a Federal agency in Southern California and they didn’t live up to their side of the contract, so I refused to even bid on Federal jobs at the end of that contract. It is rare for the Federal government to pay in less than 90 days, and generally no one counts on it for 120 days, and that lag has to be added to the cost of doing business with them.
I have no interest in becoming rich, as the thought of spawning a child like George W. Bush or Paris Hilton is too great a threat.
I’m sorry that your business plan isn’t working out, but 50% of all small businesses fail in the first 6 months, usually from over optimistic marketing plans.
The writer offered the company involved the opportunity to respond to the situation and they weren’t up to job. That reflects on them, not on the writer.
The point the writer was making, and I have made is that leasing is a bad idea. As a taxpayer I have a right to expect that good money management principles will be used when spending tax dollars. The only thing that leasing may have going for it is a tax advantage that is meaningless to a government agency.
]]>WS, I agree with you, that the government is the best corporate money can buy. It doesn’t matter what voters want, only what the money people want.
]]>Healthcare in the US is controlled by greedy un-regulated (“free market”) big business profiteers like HBOs and insurance companies who are only interested in making lots of money for their bottom lines and paychecks and to hell with stupid US consumers.
The healthcare ‘industry’ is the only one still making billions in profits in this economy.
Unfortunatly, US politicians, on both sides, are controlled by big money.
]]>oh very definitely. and after listening to friends’ experiences, i’d say the buying of medical equipment is another area where savings can be found.
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