T: Is for truth in humor

Since Valentine's Day is coming up I decided to lighten up. Sometimes humor teaches us in a easier fashion. Some of the problems our country is facing right now are uncontested contracts, greed and foreign companies getting American contracts. Maybe the following has more truth than humor to it.

Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken fence at the White House in DC:

One is from New York, another is from
Tennessee and the third, is from Florida .
All three go with a White House official to examine the fence.

The Florida contractor takes out a tape measure with a pencil.
"Well," he says, "I figure the job will run about $900: $400 for materials, $400 for my crew and $100 profit for me."

The Tennessee contractor also does some measuring and figuring, then says, "I can do this job for $700: $300 for materials, $300 for my crew and $100 profit for me."

The New York contractor doesn't measure or figure, but leans over to the White House official and whispers, "$2,700."

The official, incredulous, says,
"You didn't even measure like the other guys! How did you come up with such a high figure?"

The New York contractor whispers back, "$1000 for me, $1000 for you, and we hire the guy from Tennessee to fix the fence."

"Done!" replies the government official.

And that, my friends, is how government contracting works! And this is one possible F.A.C.T.