Carl Nemo **==

I know so first hand. Two of my brothers, both retired officers started their contracting companies and do fabulously well. They aren’t part of the crooked cabal, but the stories that I’ve been privileged to hear the details would make a taxpayer want to wretch over the rail.

Granted social service programs consume an inordinate amount of wastage too; ie., SS, Medicare, Medicaid. The government needs to be cleaned up across the board with an intensely implemented austerity program. Just ferreting out the waste, graft and corruption across all agencies with an intense commitment to do so would conservatively save a half trillion per annum with little impact on the programs themselves other than curtailing waste and fraud.

Here’s a link to an article from 2002 with the ‘good’ Secretary whining about waste and unaccountability. No doubt there’s double booking entries; i,e, accounting errors etc., but the waste exists big time. Halliburton among many others are poster children corporations for engaging in such activity.
I suggest readers view the online documentary “Iraq for Sale”. It’s a sobering expose’ of that which I speak.

http://www.wanttoknow.info/corruptiongovernmentmilitary

On another current link it was mentioned that 100 million dollars are booked per annum just for air travel !? Contractors and active duty personnel are constantly flying here and there for face to face meetings that accomplish little to nothing other than providing a sightseeing trip along with after hours fun and games. One of my brothers logged 3.2 million commercial air miles during his 28 years in the Air Force. With modern day video conferencing capabilities which can be encrypted, there’s absolutely no reason for this ongoing unethical, criminally disposed nonsense.

It’s soon coming to an end because the U.S. is headed the pathway of Greece and other deadbeat nations on earth that have borrowed far more than can ever repay. Lenders of both first and last resort are already fleeing the exits, knowing they are going to get stiffed by the U.S. when all this profligacy
comes tumbling down. Then will the ‘good’ Secretary or his future replacement be standing on a street corner pandering for a buck or two for another war…”hey bud can you spare some change”…? / : |

Carl Nemo **==