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serryjw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 09:43 PM
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Flush the money down the toilet!
A) I was aginst the wars
b) I am against the few chosen to get no bid contracts
c) I am tried of the price gouching of chosen few
AND DO YOUR FUCKEN JOB!

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Federal contracts up 86% under Bush; Halliburton rises 600%
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The document, compiled at the request of Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and distributed to RAW STORY, indicates that procurement spending increased by over $175 billion between 2000 and 2005, making federal contracts the fastest growing component of federal discretionary spending.

500 reports, audits and investigations by government and independent bodies, including the Government Accountability Office and the Defense Contract Audit Agency, were used to compile the data.

That spending increase -- an astonishing 86 percent -- puts total US federal procurement at $377.5 billion annually. The increase means spending on federal contracts has grown more than two times as fast as other forms of discretionary government spending.

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http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Report_Federal_contracts_rise_86_under_0619.html


NOW why can't they deliver what they are OVER paid for?

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A reconstruction contract for the building of 142 primary health centers across Iraq is running out of money, after two years and roughly $200 million, with no more than 20 clinics now expected to be completed, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/02/AR2006040201209.html

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Broken Promises: Foreign Aid Squandered in Afghanistan

American contractor The Louis Berger Group. It is one of 81 clinics Berger was hired to build -- in addition to roads, dams, schools and other infrastructure -- in exchange for $665 million in American aid money the company has received in federal contracts.

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Jean Mazurelle, the World Bank director in Kabul, estimates that 35 to 40 percent of all international aid sent to Afghanistan is "badly spent."

"In Afghanistan," Mazurelle told Agence France Press, "the wastage of aid is sky-high. There is real looting going on, mainly by private enterprises. It is a scandal. In 30 years of my career, I have never seen anything like it."
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http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=6f5e0da4d32534af851c809351b18f0a

It is truly sinful the amount of money wasted. NOW, Whom do I ask for money back?
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sweetheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 09:48 PM
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1. luvin' the war tax
They tax the public for crime to make everyone an accomplice. Then the loss of face is
so extreme, the disonnance exhonorates the crime, and more stupid repeats itself.
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