re: #232 wheat-dogghazi

Government awards contract to crony; crony pads budget, to give kickbacks to government officials. Crony subs out some of the contract to his cronies, who pad their budgets. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Remember, the Sochi Olympics cost $52 Billion, and still some of the toilets didn’t work.

I edited my post to be less glib, but yeah, it’s weird that right after the deposed Ukrainian head of state is revealed to have skimmed off shitloads of money the concept of people in government routing kickbacks to themselves is seen as baffling.