Is it no wonder our country is hurting financially? The government doled out as much as $1.4 billion in bogus assistance to victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, getting hoodwinked to pay for season football tickets, a tropical vacation and even a divorce lawyer, congressional investigators have found. Prison inmates, a supposed victim who used […]
With stories like this it is not wonder the troops would like to see civilian leadership changes at the Pentagon: After suffering paralysis, brain damage, lost limbs and other wounds in war, nearly 900 soldiers have been saddled with $1.2 million in government debt because of the military’s “complex, cumbersome” pay system, congressional investigators said […]
Don’t everyone wish their business ran this way – “no matter how bad you do, you still get paid top dollar”. Well if you work for the government then that is exactly how it goes: In late February 2004, the Army announced that it was canceling plans to build a radar-evading helicopter called the Comanche, […]
The first report on the failures into the response of Katrina has been released. Their findings are the same thing as I have said from day one. The problem lied with in the actual chain of command. It doesn’t matter if it is an auto accident, house fire, or a mass disaster like Katrina, if […]
Apparently the President feels his only obligation in office is to foreign policy as he shrugged off domestic issues such as the leak investigation and Katrina recovery as “background noise”. President Bush vowed Thursday to avoid the “background noise” of criminal investigations and other Republican political problems to focus on the nation’s needs. “The American […]