<div>In standard government accounting, administrative costs are spread over the entire program cost. So <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">if the government buys a nuclear reactor core and a phillips-head screw and sends both to Baltimore at a cost of a million dollars, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">the spreadsheet will reflect that the Feds paid $10,500,000 for a reactor core and $500,000.25 for a screw.</span></div>
<div><br></div>Every reporter in America should have this fact on their desk. But somehow the media keeps getting rolled every time.