My friend over at American Liberal Times wrote a post today about the cost of the ACA program…..I add this is to where a lot of our problems are found…..
I have heard this question asked by many and from both sides…..we hear about all those cheats on welfare and we hear about all that corporate welfare…..and then there are the stories about a $60 hammer or that $500 toilet seat…..you get my drift……this country is screwed daily by all those government contractors….that is why so many want to be on the list…..it is easy money.
I found another story about a total waste of our hard won cash in Afghanistan……
500 for a gallon of fuel?
That was the exorbitant figure paid with U.S. tax dollars to a contractor building a hospital in rural Afghanistan, according to a report from the government watchdog tasked with investigating expenditures on Afghanistan’s reconstruction.
In the report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), the International Organization for Migration was found to lack sufficient internal controls able to detect overpayments of at least $507,000 to the contractor it hired to build a 100-bed hospital in the town of Gardez.
It was part of a project begun in July 2008 in a cooperative agreement between the United States International Agency for Development and IOM.
The examples of oversight ineptitude are staggering.
The inspector general found one case where IOM paid the contractor, Sayed Bilal Sadath Construction Company, $300,000 for 600 gallons of diesel fuel – a cost of $500 per gallon.
In another instance, IOM was found to have paid $220,000 for an automatic temperature control device that the audit said should have cost between $2,000 and $10,000.
And I bet you thought gas was expensive in your neighborhood….believe me….IT can get worse!