BS: Homeland $ecure

Subject: BS: Homeland $ecure
From: heric
Date: 01 Jul 05 - 11:26 AM

Spending in the Name Of Homeland Security

$377,273.75 in unsubstantiated long-distance phone calls, $514,201 to rent tents that flooded in a rainstorm, $4.4 million in "no show" fees for job candidates who did not appear for tests.

· $5.4 million claimed for nine months' salary for the chief executive of an "event logistics" firm that received a contract before it was incorporated and went out of business after the contract ended.

· $1,180 for 20 gallons of Starbucks Coffee -- $3.69 a cup -- at the Santa Clara Marriott in California.

· $526.95 for one phone call from the Hyatt Regency O'Hare in Chicago to Iowa City.

Subject: RE: BS: Homeland $ecure
From: CarolC
Date: 01 Jul 05 - 11:39 AM

Here you go, fox... here's your nice, very own chicken coop. Have a nice day.

Subject: RE: BS: Homeland $ecure
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 Jul 05 - 11:53 AM

Gadzooks.

Subject: RE: BS: Homeland $ecure
From: artbrooks
Date: 01 Jul 05 - 01:37 PM

Yep...contractors and subcontractors and subsubcontractors...all probably operating on a cost-plus basis and expecting to make a profit at every point along the line. Some of these charges aren't really too far out of line for convention-center hotels; for example, $3.69 for a cup of coffee at a Southern California Marriott sounds cheap. Overall though, cost containment clearly wasn't written into anyone's contract.

Subject: RE: BS: Homeland $ecure
From: GUEST,khandu
Date: 01 Jul 05 - 04:16 PM

So what? This is business as usual for the US Government. And who is going to do what about it? Nobody. Nothing.

On and on and on it goes.

Meanwhile, people are hungry, sick and forgotten.

k