50 examples of government waste!

[get_involved]

"The Pentagon recently spent $998,798 shipping two 19-cent washers from South Carolina to Texas and $293,451 sending an 89-cent washer from South Carolina to Florida."

Opposing Views: OPINION:Get Ready to be Outraged -- 50 Examples of Government Waste

 

[JW Frogen]

"The Pentagon recently spent $998,798 shipping two 19-cent washers from South Carolina to Texas and $293,451 sending an 89-cent washer from South Carolina to Florida."

Opposing Views: OPINION:Get Ready to be Outraged -- 50 Examples of Government Waste

Washers are worth a fortune in Florida.

No one washes down there.

 

[KittenKoder]

Why did they choose just 50, I can think of at least 100 off the top of my head.

 

[REVxERIK]

a true disgrace of taxpayer money use. i wonder when we rise up like the fathers and take back the system

 

[blu]

. A GAO audit classified nearly half of all purchases on government credit cards as improper, fraudulent, or embezzled. Examples of taxpayer-funded purchases include gambling, mortgage payments, liquor, lingerie, iPods, Xboxes, jewelry, Internet dating services, and Hawaiian vacations. In one extraordinary example, the Postal Service spent $13,500 on one dinner at a Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse, including “over 200 appetizers and over $3,000 of alcohol, including more than 40 bottles of wine costing more than $50 each and brand-name liquor such as Courvoisier, Belvedere and Johnny Walker Gold.” The 81 guests consumed an average of $167 worth of food and drink apiece.

why aren't these people arrested?

 

[MaggieMae]

. A GAO audit classified nearly half of all purchases on government credit cards as improper, fraudulent, or embezzled. Examples of taxpayer-funded purchases include gambling, mortgage payments, liquor, lingerie, iPods, Xboxes, jewelry, Internet dating services, and Hawaiian vacations. In one extraordinary example, the Postal Service spent $13,500 on one dinner at a Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse, including “over 200 appetizers and over $3,000 of alcohol, including more than 40 bottles of wine costing more than $50 each and brand-name liquor such as Courvoisier, Belvedere and Johnny Walker Gold.” The 81 guests consumed an average of $167 worth of food and drink apiece.

why aren't these people arrested?

One of the reasons David Walker, ex-GAO chief, quit before his appointment was due to expire is that trying to reconcile (audit) the waste and fraud was nearly impossible, particularly within the Pentagon which, in his words, is inauditable. His last attempt at an audit showed over $1 trillion in unaccounted for spending by the Pentagon, before they stopped counting.

Asked during a rare Senate investigation of missing money designated for Iraq in 2004, former Comptroller and Undersecretary of Defense Dov Zackheim noted that "The Defense Department is very good at war, but not so good at office work. The DoD is not only the government's biggest spender, but its biggest offender. It loses track of its disbursements and doesn't know the cost of operations."

 

[Justin Case]

"The Pentagon recently spent $998,798 shipping two 19-cent washers from South Carolina to Texas and $293,451 sending an 89-cent washer from South Carolina to Florida."

Opposing Views: OPINION:Get Ready to be Outraged -- 50 Examples of Government Waste

Washers are worth a fortune in Florida.

No one washes down there .