And yet LICC & Co. are totally against cutting the defense budget since the terrorists will "win" if we do so. The Pentagon's Marauding Fraudsters The report says the Pentagon spent $270 billion from 2007 to 2009 on 91 contractors involved in civil fraud cases that resulted in judgments of more than $1 million. Another $682 million went to 30 contractors convicted of criminal fraud in the same... [more]
And yet LICC & Co. are totally against cutting the defense budget since the terrorists will "win" if we do so.
The Pentagon's Marauding Fraudsters
The report says the Pentagon spent $270 billion from 2007 to 2009 on 91 contractors involved in civil fraud cases that resulted in judgments of more than $1 million. Another $682 million went to 30 contractors convicted of criminal fraud in the same three-year period. Billions more went to firms that had been suspended or debarred by the Pentagon for misusing taxpayer dollars.
Pentagon contracting has been broken for decades. Former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld said -- on September 10, 2001 -- that "according to some estimates, we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions." The next day was 9/11, and counting Pentagon dollars was no longer a top priority.
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Response by Socialist
about 15 years ago
Posts: 2261
Member since: Feb 2010
"We have to get this debt out of control and you can’t go and say we’re going to go and take waste out of HHS or some other program, entitlements, whatever, without saying, there’s waste in defense too. We can do the job in national defense and save some money as well. I don’t think the cuts the Pentagon has put on the table are jeapordizing our national defense.
The Defense Department should not be a jobs program!"
So which liberal Democrat made the above comments? None. They were made by Tom Campbell, REPUBLICAN Congressman from California.
"We have to get this debt out of control and you can’t go and say we’re going to go and take waste out of HHS or some other program, entitlements, whatever, without saying, there’s waste in defense too. We can do the job in national defense and save some money as well. I don’t think the cuts the Pentagon has put on the table are jeapordizing our national defense.
The Defense Department should not be a jobs program!"
So which liberal Democrat made the above comments? None. They were made by Tom Campbell, REPUBLICAN Congressman from California.