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 No.857

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>US will spend 43 million dollars on a gas station in the middle of nowhere in the desert in afghanistan

>$7000 coffee makers

>$600 toilet seats

>$37 for A screw

>$435 for a hammer

>$285 screwdriver

>$387 flat washer

>$469 wrench

>$214 flashlight,

>$437 tape measure

>$2,228 monkey wrench,

>$748 pair of duckbill pliers

>$74,165 aluminum ladder

>$659 ashtray

>$1,118.26 for a spare plastic cap for a navigator’s stool on a B-52 bomber (worth about two cents)

>Defense Accounting Finance Service writes $22 billion in checks every month

>Mark Krenik (pentagon officer) created a phony company and then billed himself $504,000. He had to repay the money, but was not sentenced to prison. Probation only, and a $495 fine. He told the federal judge that he did it because everyone else in his section was doing to the same, but he was not required to name names.

>Sgt. Robbie Miller convicted and sent to prison for stealing $1 million. would not have been caught but was involved in affairs with female co-workers. Agents say they got Miller when he was hauling evidence out of the office to burn it.

>Contractors were billing $300 a night hotel rooms, private jet flights, meals at five star restaurants and bar bills to the government.

>Air Force non-commissioned officers like Miller, who handle giant

accounts at Dayton, call any vendor account that is less than $100,000

“budget dust” and say it’s not worth the time or effort trying to

recover.

>hundreds of billions into stupid wasteful trash every year

>monsanto claims it needs to genetically modify our crops and use pesticides because it helps make the world a better place

>has the biggest and most expensive military and military budget in the entire world that makes the nasa budget look like pocket change in comparison

>claims space travel is too expensive

>claims they can't afford a living wage

>claims they can't give war veterans all the help they need as t.v. commercials go on and on with sad country music with vets missing arms and legs "help the veterans!"

>claims they can't cure Cancer/HIV/Ebola/ as the pink ribbon shows up on KFC chicken buckets everywhere that contain cancer causing ingredients

>claims they can't afford universal health care

>claims they can't house every homeless person

>claims they can't grow all crops organically

>claims they can't feed the poor unless the people themselves donate food, time, and money.

>claims people absolutely must pay taxes because otherwise they would go to jail for making the country crumble apart in failure.

http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=96;t=000012;p=0

http://www.wnd.com/2000/10/4314/

http://articles.latimes.com/1986-07-30/news/vw-18804_1_nut

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_drug_trafficking

DailyFail: https://archive.is/RnMCc

Fox: https://archive.is/ZhRPL

BostonHerald: https://archive.is/ojJ6p

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 No.858

>$659 ashtray

I wonder what the US military would cost if it were a completely non-corrupt institution. Just imagine the same level of technology, the same training standards, the same missions, but with it all being administered by benevolent and competent individuals.


 No.859

>>858

I too wish for a true utopia, but our world is rotten to the core, corrupt and cruel and full of greed.


 No.860

>>859

It's neither utopian nor even unrealistic. The problem is that there's so much bureaucratic bloat. There are hundreds of different little offices and agencies in the federal government alone, with all of them probably having their own IT systems, accounting procedures, ethical guidelines and so forth, not to mention those of their parent agencies. For starters, it would make sense to have a single data system for the entire government, with one single authoritative record for every transaction by every department. That alone would go a long way to reducing the administrative burden.

It would also be helpful for the DoD to stop outsourcing so many goddamn things and only turn to the private sector as a last resort. Obviously these contractors are taking the government for a ride, be they aerospace firms selling a fighter jet for $1T or shady Syrian rebels being "trained" at $10M each only to desert a few months afterward. I'm quite sure the Pentagon has the resources and expertise to get a lot more accomplished in-house, at much lower cost. It all comes down to managerial competence and political will.


 No.861

bump for thread




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