DHS spent $34 billion like drunken bureaucrats

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The Homeland Security Department spent $34 billion in its first two years on private contracts that were poorly managed or included significant waste or abuse, a congressional report concluded Thursday.

Faulty airport screening machines, unused mobile homes for hurricane victims and lavish employee office space — complete with seven kitchens, a gym and fancy artwork — were among 32 contracts on which Homeland Security overspent, the report found...

Politics · Sat, 07/29/2006 - 10:29 · · Importance: 1

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I have been sitting in front of the TV all morning and all afternoon, watching the news. I have also been drinking beer during that time and I am now shitfaced drunk. The more I watched, the more it drove me to drink. But...even though I am drunker than 700 Samoans...I still could not drop 34 billion dollars in the parking lot like those assholes in Washington!

Posted by: boofugg at Jul 31, 2006 3:31 PM


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