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- barktwiggs, on 10/10/2007, -1/+81$500 toilet seats for the Pentagon don't seem so expensive anymore. So much for the honor system. At least they caught the dirty contractors.
- ShihJhit, on 10/10/2007, -15/+73Sadly, this makes more sense than the majority of what the government spends our money on.
- projectstartrek, on 10/20/2007, -3/+59But still, they could have bought 2 or 3 hammers with that much money!
- gharding, on 10/10/2007, -1/+46"Your search for truevalue near baghdad, iraq did not match any locations."
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -6/+50This is reason your property taxes are basically the cost of three month's morgage payments.
- blorc, on 10/10/2007, -4/+45The title, while accurate, is a bit misleading if you don't know the context. These people were essentially abusing a system that pays out automatically/quickly to priority orders. While I won't discuss the pros/cons of such a system, it's not like the government was willingly and intentionally paying such absurd sums for those items.
- tehbored, on 10/10/2007, -2/+35So that's what happens to our $100,000,000+ per day in tax dollars...
- lpmiller, on 10/10/2007, -3/+32See that? Stop bitching about shipping in my ebay auctions!
- murphygr, on 10/10/2007, -1/+27the washers probably got dropped in the sand "whoops, can't find them" "aw don't worry about it, they only cost a couple of cents a piece..."
- Homerr, on 10/10/2007, -3/+28Steal $20.5 million, get fined $750,000?
WTF?! - DietMountainDew, on 10/10/2007, -1/+25"Add Delivery Insurance for $4.99 extra!"
- flashboy131, on 10/10/2007, -2/+21and here I am driving around to find gas that's 2 cents cheaper.
- tehbored, on 10/10/2007, -2/+20How are people who mow lawns and do construction work all day lazy? That's some hard *****, you know?
- miriclaire, on 10/20/2007, -0/+16They spend $455k for two screws? And they screw America for free!
- projectstartrek, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16It's not that the government payed that much for them, it's that the company stole the money from them but the government's billing people don't care.
- garf12, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15well not really, property taxes are for local government, this is federal thus income tax.
- GliTCH82, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16This is the real reason we're spending $500 billion a year on defense... not because we're actually getting our money's worth.
- weekapaug81, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13and this is the money they can actually account for...
- DocHoliday22, on 10/20/2007, -1/+13When has the Government NOT spent ridiculous amounts of money on useless *****?
- flashboy131, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12why is his comment a "liberal" comment?
- Vincent21212, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11I work as an avionics tech in the AF. Even though those shipping costs had no merit, you should see what manufacturers are charging the Air Force for 30 year old technology on aircraft parts. Some parts valued at $10,000 consist of nothing more that two shockmounted circuit cards and two jacks containing 50 pins each encased in a metal box. And are very heavy. Definately no oversight anywhere in regards to military spending
- SnuKs, on 10/10/2007, -5/+15I'd compare the US gov as a gold digging bitch. Taxpayers need to choke a bitch.
- jtb4, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11Read the article. The shippers were crooks. It's not like the government MEANT to be fraudulently billed.
- gamer31, on 10/10/2007, -4/+13and while doing so, burning more gas which will actually end up costing you more.
- flashboy131, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10figurative
- sleastack, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Makes me sick..
- cmw72, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10I'm in your ebay auctions ... bitching about your shipping ...
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Plus they lose everything they own did you read that part of the article?
- Amplix, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7*tacks a sign on Leonarde's forehead*
"Dont feed the troll" - skellener, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7At least these people were caught. While people make talk about government mis-spending "our" money, this is clearly a case of basically stealing "our" money from the government. I hope they put them away for a long, long time.
- khail250, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8i worked for an engineering company our client was Texas instruments, and we too needed a washer, we had a person fly from CA to TX, hand deliver it, he had to get food expense, hotel, air fare, and overtime for this, and car rental. plus this cost the client 50k/hour for every hour we did not have this washer... as scary as it is something that costs less than a penny, cost our company, and Texas instruemnts around 450k
- blorc, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Guys, he's just a troll. Look at his profile and check out his comments. Don't feed him.
- SweetMercury, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6McGruff?
- fr0mundacheese, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Haliburton must be bunned they didnt figure out this scam first. Oh wait...
- smackhero, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Halliburton/Kellog & Brown has been caught billing the government for driving EMPTY TRUCKS back and forth in afghanistan and yet they are still being paid on cost plus financing for billions of dollars of contracts in iraq--which is why they tell their employees to just burn vehicles when they have a flat or run out of gas, since the more they spend, the more they make.
this corporate exploitation of government contracts has caused people to lose faith in the government, which idiot conservatives use to support their push for more privatization of government and giving more money and power to corporate industries. meanwhile, conservative leaders like Ron Paul are also pushing for more deregulation of industries since, you know, they've been so good at regulating themselves and staying on the up and up.
the contractors caught using illegal practices or stealing from the government get a slap on the wrist and then are given another no-bid contract a week later because of their republican connections. our political culture needs to change and we need to realize that the conservative motto of "smaller government and more deregulation" are just pushing us towards a corporate plutocracy where the government is being run by corporate conglomerates like halliburton. - Winston84, on 10/20/2007, -0/+5or buy 100.000 AK47's and drop them somewhere near Iran .
The lie :
"The charge has been made that the United States has shipped weapons to Iran as ransom payment for the release of American hostages in Lebanon, that the United States undercut its allies and secretly violated American policy against trafficking with terrorists.... Those charges are utterly false.... We did not--repeat--did not trade weapons or anything else for hostages, nor will we."
--President Reagan, television address, November 13, 1986
The "I don't recall what i recall" defense :
"The simple truth is, 'I don't remember--period.'"
--President Reagan, responding to a question about when he authorized arms shipments to Iran, February 2, 1987
The liberal un-american fact-infected version :
"A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true,
but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not."
--Reagan in a television address is forced to acknowledge "the facts and the evidence" uncovered the Tower Commission, March 4, 1987
You guys do remember who The Gippers VP was, right ? - SillyRabbits, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5It's easy to say that. However, if you were to go out and build an equivalent part, AND, test, certify, and document the entire process like the government requires, you may end up taking a loss even at $10,000. That seemingly innocent part not only is designed to perform a particular function under a variety of conditions, it has been thoroughly tested to prove that it can. And, in case it were to fail, it's entire life history is known from the time it entered the manufacturing process as raw ore. That's a horribly expensive process, but that's what the government requires. For many items it completely over-kill, but for others it's not. Nobody is willing to take responsibliy for picking things that will require it and those that won't, so everything gets that treatment....
- warpdesign, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7They got ripped off. I'll personally courier it there for them for half that amount.
- freexe, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Did you not think about keeping spares to such an important part?
- tomtucker378, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7This is what I don't get... She makes 20MM over 6 years and is only going to be fined 750K. Granted, she'll do some jail time (not the 20 year max), but when she gets out, she still makes out like a ***** bandit! Same thing happened with those douches that did the Worldcom and Enron book-cooking.
- computergod, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5I bought a small steel bushing off a company that touted themselves as a "major supplier of the US government." The bushing was $7, the shipping was $53.
- gharding, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5It did for the one that died before being caught!!
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -5/+9Treason!
Look the money they from the government in time of War could have been earmarked to armor cars and get more bullet proof jackets to soldiers, or rotate more soldiers in and out.
Stop with this nonsense about time in jail. Enough of getting away literally with murder, and gouging the government and the USA citizens. They committed treason, take them out and shoot them! - SweetMercury, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Are you absolutely ***** retarded?
What's "liberal," "pencil-necked," or "bleeding-heart" about pointing out that the title is misleading, or that there's a difference between fraud and graft? - Gilart80, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Please read the article. All her assetts were seized.
- GliTCH82, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Complaining on Digg.com
- Chongo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4However, companies that charge these amounts are probably using the money to either give kick-backs to some politico friend, or maybe even lobby for some ass backwards legislation.
- Koldkompress, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3It's probably not a precision washer if it's for 19 cents.
- JacksonBlack, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Are you seriously criticizing libertarians for wasting tax money? Corruption doesn't have a political affiliation.
- haggie, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5war time profiteering should be punished by execution. first these morons, then the executive office, then congress.
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