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Down1
2nd August 2011, 06:00 AM
Thankfully the debt ceiling will be raised so the warmongers can continue to buy this stuff.
I wouldn't want to see our "defense capabilities" suffer.


A U.S. government contractor in Iraq (http://www.foxnews.com/topics/iraq.htm#r_src=ramp) charged the Pentagon (http://www.foxnews.com/topics/politics/the-pentagon.htm#r_src=ramp) a whopping amount of money for inexpensive items, including $900 for a $7 control switch, according to a new report (http://www.sigir.mil/publications/quarterlyreports/index.html) from a U.S. watchdog.
U.S. Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Stuart W. Bowen Jr. said review found that Anham, LLC, which is based in suburban Washington, allowed its subcontractors in Iraq to also charge $3,000 for a $100 circuit breaker, and $80 for a piece of plumbing equipment worth $1.41.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/07/30/us-contractor-in-iraq-charges-pentagon-00-for-7-control-switch-report-finds/#ixzz1TsMrVBCl

Ponce
2nd August 2011, 09:45 AM
There is a sucker born every minute........in this case the government is the sucker.....hummmmmmm or us?

mick silver
2nd August 2011, 09:51 AM
ponce ... ponce it all for the better of man kind they really needed that 900.00 control switch ... they could of just shoot someone that lives there and toke there switch . it would of been cheaper