Oh. My. God. As if this government could be any more stupid. We have spent the last eight years in schools without any funding for computer equipment. This means that any computers bought between 2001 and now have been bought by parents or sponsored by very generous companies. Most of us are still using computers that belong in museums. In all that time, the government had loads of money. They could have bought every school in Ireland 10 computers each and the bill would be less than €20 million, which is less than half the cost of storing eVoting machines or taxi fares from each department or Bertie’s makeup bill (probably). Now that they claim to have no money, they’re going to let businesses lease computers to them. That way the government get to spend millions more than if they just bought them in the first place. Anyway…here’s the article:
So the government are going to lease computers now… d'oh!
Oh. My. God. As if this government could be any more stupid. We have spent the last eight years in schools without any funding for computer equipment. This means that any computers bought between 2001 and now have been bought by parents or sponsored by very generous companies. Most of us are still using computers that belong in museums. In all that time, the government had loads of money. They could have bought every school in Ireland 10 computers each and the bill would be less than €20 million, which is less than half the cost of storing eVoting machines or taxi fares from each department or Bertie’s makeup bill (probably). Now that they claim to have no money, they’re going to let businesses lease computers to them. That way the government get to spend millions more than if they just bought them in the first place. Anyway…here’s the article: