Monday, December 25, 2006

Someone got Christmas presents but, not the taxpayers

All taxpayers are waking up this Christmas morning with their wallets a little lighter because of the presents some received from the practices of the Federal Government as reported in the Washington Post.

"The Defense Department paid two procurement operations at the Department of the Interior to arrange for Pentagon purchases totaling $1.7 billion that resulted in excessive fees and tens of millions of dollars in waste, documents show."

Inquiring taxpayers want to know how does this happen?

"In one instance, Interior officials bought armor to reinforce Army vehicles from a software maker. In another, Interior bought furniture for Defense from a company that apparently had not previously been in the furniture business."

Merry Christmas fellow sucker taxpayers!

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