Whatcha gonna do about it?

Thieves are spending your money

As a revelation, it was as strong as watered-down tea.

In a report to Congress, the nation’s new Wartime Contracting Commission reported that poor management, weak oversight and a failure to learn from past mistakes as recurring themes in wartime contracting.

What? Contractors gouging the U.S. gummit in time of war? Getouttahere!

There is no doubt that wartime increases the opportunities for thieves to do their handiwork. It’s also no doubt that the gummit penchant for handing out tax dollars allows heretofor honest contractors to start stealing. (But, then again, if they steal now, how honest could they have been previously.)

And, it’s no doubt our elected public serpents continue the practices which allow the stealing because:
1) Few in gummit ever think of tax dollars as “money given in faith by the citizens to do honorable work”;
2) It’s not a practice in Washington-on-the-Deficit to actually check to see if money is being properly spent, and;
3) The penalties for falsifying invoices and records, lying and stealing is akin to a wrist-slap for a murder charge.

The 111-page report details how billions have been misspent in Afghanistan and Iraq in the past eight years. It also details how many corporate thieves are serving time in the federal penal system: Zero.

It would be a cinch to write 2,000 words about projects pushed by lawmakers and lobbyists, and approved by federal employees, and supervised by contractors, which were bogus or sustained overcharges equal to the cost of a moon landing.

But not today. Anger and facts don’t cohabitate well together.

Well, maybe just one example.

At a U.S. base in Iraq, tax dollars were used to build a $30 million dining facility. We’re talking mess hall, here, folks. Not Le Petite Café at Trump Towers. The report said the facility was the result of bad planning and botched paperwork. No mention of fraud or pending charges.

Oh, almost forgot: The existing dining hall had undergone $3 million in renovations in June 2008.

The report also notes the new building project is too far along to stop.

Which brings us to another project: The U.S. embassy in Baghdad. More than $100 million for the world’s largest embassy.

Haysus Crisco Shortening! What are government officials thinking? Oh, excuse me, they are not thinking at all.

They’re just spending. Your money.

One more example before my head explodes: At one base in Iraq, the report noted that military population has dropped to just 62 soldiers. The number of contractors at the base number 338.
Your tax dollars are paying the bill.

What are you going to do about it?