Katrina vicitms not the only ones to misuse funds...

LadyShea · #1 07-19-2006, 05:19 PM

We have discussed how Katrina victims used their government issued debit cards fraudulantly or stupidly or wastefully...well how about how our government employees spending when given what amounts to cash?

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Investigators also noted that Customs and Border Protection wasted up to $464,586 by buying meals-ready-to-eat over the Internet instead of contracting through the Pentagon, as is standard procedure. And they found that the Federal Emergency Management Agency cannot locate 107 laptops, 22 printers and two GPS units worth $170,000. FEMA also cannot find 12 of 20 boats the agency bought for $208,000.

Sock Puppet · #2 07-19-2006, 05:54 PM

Oh yeah, where are my manners? Thanks, FEMA. I'm enjoying mine immensely.
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Legs · #3 07-19-2006, 08:30 PM

Not being able to locate GPS units is just weird.

LionsDen · #4 07-19-2006, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Legs

Not being able to locate GPS units is just weird.

EsoCyn · #5 07-19-2006, 09:31 PM

John Stossel also ripped FEMA off, and he fully admitted to it. What was his trick? He hid his abuse of the system as trying to show people how easy it is to rip others off.

Stossel is a grade A jackass.

Dingfod · #6 07-20-2006, 01:05 AM

That last bit doesn't surprise me, Stossel has also admitted to being one of the people that rebuild their homes in flood-prone (in his case: wave erosion prone) areas funded by cheap federal flood insurance. He points out how rotten it is, but admits to be doing it himself. What won't he do for a story?

EsoCyn · #7 07-20-2006, 01:30 AM

http://www.crooksandliars.com/posts/...rips-off-fema/

And of course, O'Reilly loves him for it.

wildernesse · #8 07-20-2006, 05:05 AM

What gave me fits is that the excuse for this lack of accountability is that they are a new department. WHAT? FEMA is NOT a new department. ICE is just renamed. They put together a jumble of old departments and call them something new and ALL their former accountability measures are useless? Give me a break!! They should have had accountability measures within each of these groups to start with--which they probably did/do but no one keeps up with them. And then the spokeperson has the gall to say that the investigation cost more than the abuses--well, it probably wouldn't have if there had been fewer of them! ARG.

I hate fake Republicans and their giant, wasteful government. Hypocrites!

Dingfod · #9 07-20-2006, 05:35 AM

How do you tell a fake Republican from a real Republican? I really would like to know, because, for me, it's kind of like someone saying they are a Christian, if they say they are, for all intents and purposes, they are. If the supposed "real Republicans" don't want to be associated with the "fake Republicans", why don't they do something to differentiate themselves from them, like form a 3rd party or something?

wildernesse · #10 07-20-2006, 05:15 PM

Oh, I don't think there are actually what I call "real Republicans" in government. You know, small, less intrusive government, fiscally responsible types. The ones who do exist probably don't identify as neocons like the ones in power seem to, so they might have partitioned themselves off somewhere.

Oh, and 3rd parties are for losers, at least here in the US, didn't you know? Only freaks and naive college students believe in them. /end conventional wisdom.

Clutch Munny · #11 07-20-2006, 06:10 PM

No, those are real Republicans. They're just fake neo-liberals (i.e., in the political economy sense).

Under the last four Republican administrations there's been massive deficit spending and bureaucratic expansion, a great deal of it devoted to enriching large corporations in the military and energy sectors, and to localized pork-barreling. There's not much grounds to think that this isn't true -- that is, established and typical -- Republicanism, at this point.