As a guy who currently does not know what his animals have to to eat next (or if he does, wonder whether it will kill them as it is half year over due date) I really get worked up about getting on top of it (I still pay taxes, if not rent) scammed big time by I-do-not-even-know-whom and with soooooo much "chuzpa"....!!!
The scammers devise (beaurocrats behind it?) interesting schemes, here one of the last that made my "hair stand to mountain" as our German first President once mentioned (of cause in total disknowledge of proper English; but if
"football play we better than you" works, why not his structure?
), check for yourself:
Raydon Corporation of Daytona Beach, Florida. just made 36 millions from the tax payer. Nothing wrong with that, no? Free Capitalism, budget ridded administartaion et al?
You are right on track buy then, was anybody elected during consulting on this waste of money/ressources (erhmmm, cant reall you call it like that:I see this as "mission completed", everybody in the chain made some bucks for sure)?: Total contract value $36,355,550 through Nov. 30, 2011.
For what?
For 11 MRAPs
simulators "to train drivers" (when
the real thing only costs a third):
do the math. Raydon’s getting $3.3 million per virtual MRAP trainer. That’s at least three times as much as it costs to make an actual MRAP. In fairness, now that the military’s been paying to manufacture MRAPs for about five years, it’s probably easier and cheaper to make them than it is to make new virtual trainers for them. But Raydon also makes training modules for Abrams tanks, Bradley Fighting Vehicles, Humvees and assorted other ground-pounder hardware, so it’s not like they don’t know how to do this. That’s not to pick on the company: poring through the fiscal 2010 Defense bill, it appears that Congress put in over $11 million in earmarks to fund MRAP trainers for the National Guard.
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http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/daily-pentagon-jackpot-virtual-mrap-edition/#ixzz0u60e93bYAnybody can explain why this happens over and over again (not only in US, in Germany we had 1980 some standard toilet seats for the army wich cost us 1.250 DM per seat - in the supermarket the same model cost 19 DM...) and somehow nobody ever seems to be getting a grip? Anopther one, a bit older, everybopdy cold have learnt if this was the goal:
Remember those famous Pentagon hammers and toilet seats that cost nearly $1,000? One would think the federal government would have learned its lesson: government agencies, especially huge ones like the Pentagon, need close monitoring lest they flush the taxpayers' money down their very expensive toilets.
Well, with the above it looks they all keep flushing, and ourselves starving...
Rattler
