Priorities in government and space

On Aug 3, 2006, at 12:40 PM, Robert wrote:

> the thing is that the company would not want to lose money. One of
> three things would happen.
>
> 1) they would cut corners to make sure they made the best profit they
> could. without oversight, no one would know if a failure was caused
> by negligence or bad materials.
>
> 2) they would have huge bills which they would expect the goverment
> to pay. without oversight no one would know if those cost were
> legitimate.
>
> 3) the goverment would have to spend more than it does now for
> oversight and cost control.

We could make such a system and call it "cost-plus" Oh, wait! we
already have that!

doug