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How the hell else do you arrange a contract? Lawyers at 10 paces? What's so corrupt about directly communicating with someone gain agreement? This is confusing.

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A competitive bidding process, which the government is usually required to do because everything else is corruption.

What's so corrupt a politician calling a friend to order him a new plane using taxpayers money?

Pretty sure that can be done with a paper contract too, but sure.

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