...is, of course, the massive greed and fraud machine we've all come to know and loathe: the modern Gee Oh Pee.
The multibillion-dollar surge in federal contracting to bolster the nation's domestic defenses in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has been marred by extensive waste and misspent funds, according to a new bipartisan congressional report.
Lawmakers say that since the Homeland Security Department's formation in 2003, an explosion of no-bid deals and a critical shortage of trained government contract managers have created a system prone to abuse. Based on a comprehensive survey of hundreds of government audits, 32 Homeland Security Department contracts worth a total of $34 billion have "experienced significant overcharges, wasteful spending, or mismanagement," according to the report, which is slated for release today and was obtained in advance by The Washington Post.
The value of contracts awarded without full competition increased 739 percent from 2003 to 2005, to $5.5 billion, more than half the $10 billion awarded by the department that year. By comparison, the agency awarded a total of $3.5 billion in contracts in 2003, the year it was created.
I'd love to say that six years of Republican gubment has only left you ripped off, more vulnerable, and in worse shape than you were six years ago.
Unfortunately, that's not all this awful, awful Republican gubment is going to leave you.
It's going to also leave you the bill.
yes, we are getting the bill and the body bags too from the middle east.
Posted by: glenda | July 30, 2006 at 08:34 AM