Lets see, tin-pot dictator wanna-be, massive international debt funding wars of occupation, domestic spying, parades in front of military backdrops, and crony capitalism and corruption. I think we are in a third world country.
Homeland Security Contracts Abused
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.
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Among the contracts that went awry were deals for hiring airport screeners, inspecting airport luggage, detecting radiation at the nation's ports, securing the borders and housing Hurricane Katrina evacuees. Investigators looking into those contracts turned up whole security systems that needed to be scrapped, contractor bills for luxury hotel rooms and Homeland Security officials who bought personal items with government credit cards.· A Defense Contract Audit Agency review of an NCS Pearson Inc. contract to hire airport screeners uncovered at least $297 million of questionable costs, including luxury hotel rooms. ...
· A surveillance system for monitoring activity on the Mexican and Canadian borders does not work because of cameras that malfunction when exposed to snow, ice or humidity.· Two TSA employees used government purchase cards to buy $136,000 worth of personal items, including leather briefcases.
cameras along the border with Canada that malfunction when exposed to snow or ice? Hmm, wonder if that ever happens? Or if it is ever humid near the Mexican border?
Tags: corruption, /Worst_President
Since the first major scandal, Enron, which affected California directly, I could see nothing good would be coming our way. Then there was the war. Halliburton. Attempts to invade our national forests. The Alaskan refuge. Oil. More war and more money for war.
The American people are being screwed so badly, we'd need a whole kamasutra expertise to deal with "how may ways we are being f*kd." I have counted some of the ways. Everyday there is a new story involving corruption.
I guess when Jesus kicked the vendors out of the temple they found a place to peddle their junk. The United States of America, where a new sucker is born everyday.