Pentagon Paid $998,798 to Ship Two 19-Cent Washers

[CheezeFlixz]

And you thought eBay shipping was high ...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=ardg6DwCCMFI&refer=home


This is why I have 2 CPA's to find me every single deduction I can take.

[RCMerchant]

 Don't they have hardware stores nearby? Why would you mail order 2 washers in the first place? A couple barrels of washers-sure. But 2?!?! I don't get it. Who the f6ck is in charge here?! Why??? I gotta stepson in Iraq...and he's taking orders from the same idiots who pay millions of dollars for WASHERS and SCREWS?!?!?! Ug. 

                      [youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DWoJBHibhM

[BTM]

And you thought eBay shipping was high ...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=ardg6DwCCMFI&refer=home


This is why I have 2 CPA's to find me every single deduction I can take.

I wish this was an isolated incident, but do a Google search on "government wastes" and you could probably find HUNDREDS of examples.  What's sad is if any private business were to waste money like this, they'd be shut down rather quickly, but since the government regards taxpayer money as a well that'll never run dry, they have NO motivation to cut costs.

I think I read once that the Pentagon, for instance, has a TRILLION dollars they can not account for.  That's TRILLION, as in 1,000,000,000,000 dollars.

[raj]

And the various military branches can't just standardize on one or two UAVs, each one has to build its own from scratch:

http://formerspook.blogspot.com/2007/08/showdown-continues.html

Now obviously each branch's role is different and things need to be tweaked for the different missions, but dropping $1 billion or more for technology that's already sitting on the shelf is stupid.