In 2002, Bill Clinton got Jerry Inzerello, an executive at the Paradise Island Casino to raise $1 million to buy drugs for AIDS patients in the Bahamas (where the casino is located, and the location of the second highest AIDS rate in the Western Hemisphere). Shortly after, Ira Magaziner, Clinton's social policy consultant, had a team of management consultants review the spending of the $1 million by the Bahamian government, at which point they discovered that they were going through two middlemen to acquire generic AIDS drugs at the cost of $3,500 per patient per year. The team made one call to the manufacturer, cutting out the middlemen and lowering the cost to $500 per person per year within days, and eventually to $138. The same amount of money that treated one person a year before now treats 25, and if no review committee came in to check on the spending, potentially thousands of AIDS patients would be dead because some businessmen were trying to make a buck.
Some people make me the fuck sick.
(I know, I know, you're thinking "Why is LO2 talking about serious shit? where's the gadgets and funny pictures?" just allow me to digress a little. I'll talk about toys again soon. Well, after my rant about Lisl Auman...)