SIGIR: Defense can't account for $8.7 billion You people vote for more gov't every

[OrangeEmpire]

You people vote for more gov't ever election!

What is wrong with you guys and gals?

Federal News Radio 1500 AM: SIGIR: Defense can't account for $8.7 billion

The Defense Department is unable to account for $8.7 billion of the $9.1 billion in Development Fund for Iraq monies in received for reconstruction in Iraq. This according to a study published today by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction.
"This situation occurred because most DoD organizations receiving DFI (Development Fund for Iraq) funds did not establish the required Department of the Treasury accounts and no DoD organization was designated as the executive agent for managing the use of DFI funds," the report states.
The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) finds that only one Defense organization actually set up the accounts required by the Treasury.
"The breakdown in controls left the funds vulnerable to inappropriate uses and undetected loss," SIGIR says.
The study recommends that the Secretary of Defense create new accounting and reporting procedures to avoid such mistakes in the future. It also recommends designating an executive agent to oversee progress, establishing measurable milestones, and determining whether any DoD organizations are still holding DFI funds. For more reports and publications from the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, see http://www.sigir.mil/publications/index.html

Thoughts other than gov't = failure?

 

[IBlvNTmWrk]

You people vote for more gov't ever election!

What is wrong with you guys and gals?



Thoughts other than gov't = failure?

I'd say your statement above pretty much covers it... and these are the people we want involved in running financial institutions???

 

[BigPapaVol]

I think it's hard to imagine that this was anything but intentional.

 

[utvolpj]

reminds me of the movie line

You don't actually think they spend $20,000.00 on a hammer, $30,000.00 on a toilet seat do you?

 

[volinbham]

Pffft. chump change to this admin.

 

[BigPapaVol]

Pffft. chump change to this admin.

freaking rounding error in the package stimulator.

by the by, did you just start a post with a queef?

 

[volinbham]

the package stimulator was responsible for the queef

 

[BigPapaVol]

the package stimulator was responsible for the queef

it was a large freaking package.

 

[distrovol]

I'd say your statement above pretty much covers it... and these are the people we want involved in running financial institutions???

...and the health care industry.

 

[OrangeEmpire]

I think it's hard to imagine that this was anything but intentional.

This was my first thought, but it didn't fit with the rant.

 

[gsvol]

You people vote for more gov't ever election!

What is wrong with you guys and gals?

Federal News Radio 1500 AM: SIGIR: Defense can't account for $8.7 billion



Thoughts other than gov't = failure?

Why single out the Defense Department???

The anti-military, anti-American Washington Post, (aka Pravda on the Potomac), whose offices were used to further subvert the media by forming a clandestine network used for the covering for the Obama/Wright relationship, assassinating the character of Sarah Palin and trying to get FOX off the air among other things, has no problem with attacking the defense dept but what about the rest of the government, particularly entitlement programs??

More Taxpayer Dollars Wasted: Govt’s Duplicate Welfare Programs, Theft, Fraud… IRS Can’t Verify $3 Billion of Its Own Expenses Frugal Café Blog Zone

The [Washington] Post and other liberal organs have been quick to record how much the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (particularly Iraq) have cost taxpayers. But they seem much less curious about waste, duplication, and even fraud in other areas of government spending.

If they need ideas about where else to look, they can consult Martin Gross, author of a series of books about the “government racket” (that’s one of his titles actually). It may interest the Post to learn that there are 70 different programs in 13 different federal agencies addressing the problem of teen drug abuse. There are 160 different job-training programs, 50 homeless assistance programs, 27 programs to avert teen pregnancy, and 90 programs on early childhood development. According to a recent Government Accountability Office report, “at least 12 federal departments and agencies were responsible for hundreds of community development programs that assist distressed urban communities and their residents. Historically, there is but little coordination among the agencies, posing an unnecessary burden on communities seeking assistance.” To say nothing of the taxpayers.

Nor do federal departments and agencies even know where all of the money goes. In “National Suicide,” Gross recounts, “In one recent year, the federal government could not account for $24.5 billion it spent. Buried in the Treasury Department’s ‘Unreconciled Transactions Affecting the Change in Net Position,’ is the fact that the enormous sum is unreconciled — that is, it is missing.”

This is rich: The GAO also found that “The IRS could not verify $3 billion of its expenses” as the agency “had not kept its own books and records with the same degree of accuracy it expects from taxpayers.”

Medicare fraud alone accounts for an estimated $60 billion annually, according to the Wall Street Journal. A Philadelphia cardiologist convicted of defrauding the program to the tune of half a million dollars explained to a Senate committee, “The problem is that nobody is watching. The system is extremely easy to evade. The forms I sent in were absolutely outrageous.”

If you really want to get into it deeper then tell me how much money goes to the nonexistant country of East Turkestan government in exile based in Chicago and how is that money spent??

For that matter how many taxpayer dollars are spent

 

[gsvol]

...and the health care industry.

How about education??

FETHULLAH GULEN: THE PENNSYLVANIA PASHA FINALLY EXPOSED | thelastcrusade

His neighbors have complained of fully automatic gunfire erupting from his complex and of a low flying helicopter that combs the area in search of any intruders.
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What takes place in the Gulen charter schools that receive millions from the American taxpayer?

Noted Middle Eastern scholar Rachel Sharon-Krespin writes: “His (Gulen’s) followers target youth in the eighth through twelfth grades, mentor and indoctrinate them in the ışıkevi, educate them in the Fethullah schools, and prepare them for future careers in legal, political, and educational professions in order to create the ruling classes of the future Islamist, Turkish state.”

Even more telling is a comment from Nurettin Veren, Gulen’s right hand man for 35 years, who says: “These schools are like shop windows. Recruitment and Islamization are carried out through night classes.”
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Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a Gulen disciple – - as is Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul.

Thanks to such Islamists, Turkey has transformed from a secular state into an Islamic country with 85,000 active mosques – - one for every 350- citizens – - the highest number per capita in the world, 90,000 imams, more imams than teachers and physicians – - and thousands of state-run Islamic schools.

Despite the rhetoric of European Union accession, Turkey has transferred its alliance from Europe and the United States to Russia and Iran. It has moved toward friendship with Hamas, Hezbollah, and Syria and created a pervasive anti-Christian, anti-Jewish, and anti-America animus throughout the populace.

His movement with six million adherents has spread throughout Central Asia and has served to unite such newly created Russian republics as Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Azerbaijan into a pan-Islamic state.
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Turkey, under the AKP, has forged a strong alliance with Iran. This alliance was largely achieved through the workings of the Gulen movement among the Azeri population of Iran who speak Turkish rather than Farsi.

In the wake of the AKP’ attempt to lead a fleet of ships, filled with pro-Palestinian activists, through the Gaza blockade on May 31, Turkey has strengthened its ties to Syria, Lebanon and much of the Muslim world. Placards depicting the smiling face of Tayyip Erdogan are omnipresent in Saudi Arabia.

Gulen’s dream of creating a universal caliphate is becoming a reality, and he has garnered support from such Us dignitaries as Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama.

In May, Gulen created his latest lobbying group in Washington, D.C. – - the Assembly of Turkic Federations (ATAF), which already has shelled out millions to American politicians so that they will remain sensitive to his efforts to further the cause of militant Islam.

ATAF celebrated its formation with a gala celebration in a plush lounge of the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C.

Among those in attendance were U.S. Senators Richard Lugar, Robert Casey, Frank Lautenberg, Jeff Ningaman, Roger Wicker, Mark Warner, Kay Hagen, and fifty-three members of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Speaking at Kanal D TV’s Arena program, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan commented on the term “moderate Islam”, often used in the West to describe AKP and said, “These descriptions are very ugly; it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.”

FWIW, Barry Soetoro describes Tayyippi as; "his close personal friend."

Quoted in the NY Slimes in 1998 while mayor of Istanbul, Erdogan had this quote about Islam;

‘The mosques are our barracks,
the domes are our helmets,
the minarets are our swords, and
the faithful are our army’