A small South Carolina parts supplier collected about $20.5 million over six years from the Pentagon for fraudulent shipping costs, including $998,798 for sending two 19-cent washers to an Army base in Texas, U.S. officials said.I mean, they bilked the Pentagon out of $20 million over 10 years. Who was writing the checks?The company also billed and was paid $455,009 to ship three machine screws costing $1.31 each to Marines in Habbaniyah, Iraq, and $293,451 to ship an 89-cent split washer to Patrick Air Force Base in Cape Canaveral, Florida, Pentagon records show.
Did the accountant at the Pentagon see an invoice for "Priority: Toroidal Spacer Component Delivery" and say "Oh, sure, one million bucks is a fair amount for that sort of service?"
C'mon, now. Let's cut the Pentagon's funding in half immediately. Then, take the excess and distribute it among the nation's primary and secondary public schools.
If you give all of that money to the schools, they'll end up with the fasteners and spacers we so badly need in our war against evildoers.
ReplyDeleteThe evildoers hate us for our freedom and for our superior materials adherence technology. In the end we'll be fighting the evildoers here at our primary and secondary public schools instead of over there.
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