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Blastoderm55
01-31-2007, 11:55 AM
Quarterly audit paints grim picture of fraud, frustration (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16895294/)

And an Olympic-size swimming pool. :thinking:
STANG RED
01-31-2007, 12:30 PM
Same song different verse, just like the New Orleans rebuild.

Remember when the government was paying $600 for toilet seats, and $200 each for 3/8" bolts.
Sure wish I coulda got some of that action.:D
Blastoderm55
01-31-2007, 12:46 PM
Yup. That's what happens when there's no competition for government contracts and political bossom-buddies scratch each others back with all those tax dollars wasted.
Macarthur
01-31-2007, 03:00 PM
blastoderm is so right.

Rent the Documentary Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers. It will make you crazy.
BTEXDAD
01-31-2007, 03:41 PM
Originally posted by Macarthur
blastoderm is so right.

Rent the Documentary Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers. It will make you crazy.

Dont single out just iraq war.
it's been going on for years and years. Even in WWII and viet nam.

There has got to be some way to stop it, but there's too much money going into pockets of BOTH democrats and republicans.
Blastoderm55
01-31-2007, 03:50 PM
Originally posted by BTEXDAD
Dont single out just iraq war.
it's been going on for years and years. Even in WWII and viet nam.

There has got to be some way to stop it, but there's too much money going into pockets of BOTH democrats and republicans.

Very true.
Macarthur
01-31-2007, 03:52 PM
Originally posted by BTEXDAD
Dont single out just iraq war.
it's been going on for years and years. Even in WWII and viet nam.

There has got to be some way to stop it, but there's too much money going into pockets of BOTH democrats and republicans.

Well, there has always been war profiteering to some extent, but nothing like this one. In the past, companies at least had to bid on contracts. Contracts are being awarded now without the bid process progressing as it should.

Rent the video!
BTEXDAD
01-31-2007, 04:14 PM
Originally posted by Macarthur
there has always been war profiteering

I'll use the news media procedure and just quote the part I choose to whether or not it's taken out of context.