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01 Jul 05 - 11:26 AM (#1513704) Subject: BS: Homeland $ecure From: heric 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. |
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01 Jul 05 - 11:39 AM (#1513714) Subject: RE: BS: Homeland $ecure From: CarolC Here you go, fox... here's your nice, very own chicken coop. Have a nice day. |
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01 Jul 05 - 11:53 AM (#1513728) Subject: RE: BS: Homeland $ecure From: Ebbie Gadzooks. |
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01 Jul 05 - 01:37 PM (#1513830) Subject: RE: BS: Homeland $ecure From: artbrooks 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. |
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01 Jul 05 - 04:16 PM (#1513978) Subject: RE: BS: Homeland $ecure From: GUEST,khandu 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 |