Wandering Through a Morass of Money—The Quagmire Called Procurement
The Pentagon’s forgetfulness has sneaked its way silently across four years and never so much as made a ripple beyond the CBS mention. Sixteen times the amount pissed away by the Savings and Loan industry has gone over the Niagra Falls of military spending and nary a soul has been shipped off to the pokey.
From the January 29, 2002 CBS News, just about four years (and $trillions) ago;
On Sept. 10, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declared war. Not on foreign terrorists, "the adversary's closer to home. It's the Pentagon bureaucracy," he said. Money wasted by the military poses a serious threat. "In fact, it could be said it's a matter of life and death."
I don’t know, that may be a bit theatrical, that life and death stuff, unless you’re talking about the death of
Schools (and education in general)
Rebuilding and patching together the nation’s infrastructure (those falling-apart bridges, highways, sewage systems, electric grids and the like)
Some kind of rational public transport
At le…