Sandy auditor let go after criticizing state

An independent consultant who examined New York's spending for Superstorm Sandy found what he believes are questionable transactions and practices, including poor oversight of the use of state credit cards, orders for a fleet of SUVs and the purchase of iPads that did not seem necessary for recovery efforts.

The consultant, who was expelled by the state after issuing a series of recommendations to improve procurement practices, said it appeared from his examination that government officials bought and rented equipment that should have been stockpiled or lined up months or years earlier, and sought to acquire assets that didn't seem necessary for the immediate tasks at hand.

"They're trying to get stuff that would be cool to have, but we don't really need it for this incident — but maybe we can get the feds to pay for it," said Thomas Sadowski, the consultant.

He said many pieces of equipment were nearly impossible to track once put into the field, including millions of dollars in light towers, pumps, generators and provisions. As a result, the state was unsure what it owned, leased or lost during the immediate response to the late October hurricane, Sadowski said.

Sadowski, a 63-year-old licensed certified public accountant since 1983 who retired after 32 years with the federal government, said he was escorted from the New York Office of Emergency Management shortly after he filed a report on Nov. 17 that was critical of some practices.

george76 ~ (from the article):” Sadowski, a 63-year-old licensed certified public accountant since 1983 who retired after 32 years with the federal government, said he was escorted from the New York Office of Emergency Management shortly after he filed a report on Nov. 17 that was critical of some practices.”

Obviously , they didnt want to hear what he had to say !
That’s the way that New York State Government operates !
Now Andy , put the chickita away for the time being (you can play later) , and grab New York Citizen’s guns so that the only ones armed are the ‘CRIMINAL ELEMENT’ !

Go for the Guns - photo Op time
The only camera whore more than you in N.Y., Andy , is Chuckie Schumer !
All this so that you can appear more libturd than Obama !

Nothing really matters-—they control the mainstream news and perceptions of the ignorant masses and can cheat and lie ‘ad nauseum’ in elections-—they probably have control over all voting machines so they really don’t worry about elections—they get billions from foreigners and the Illuminati pick all candidates anyway that have a chance-—They destroy anyone they don’t like—with millions of dollars and their press machine.....and anyone like Brietbart who understands exactly what their methodology is and gets a soapbox and is brilliant——and has great success-—will be killed. That death was a *warning* to whomever had the goods on zero, which is now permanently buried.

This is what the Satanic Leftists have been doing for over a 100 years.—to destroy Christianity. With degeneracy, they will control everything—it is why the constant porn and sodomy promotion in schools. Sex Ed corrupts children—they need to stay relatively innocence until 12 or 13 to form normal sexually. Otherwise, they become preoccupied with sex and looks and superficial things which they are not emotionally ready for which destroys their desire to master Knowledge. IQ suffers. Lukacs destroyed Hungary with his Sex Ed program in early 20’s. Cultural Marxists have known this for a century-—best way to collapse a culture—destroy the minds and morals of the little children. With moms working and schools now controlling really young minds-—children are institutionalized and brainwashed easily with curricula drenched in Marxist ideology and sexualized.

The illuminati had control over all press outlets that mattered in the early 1900’s and the curricula in public schools with Dewey by the 30’s to destroy and shape and brainwash the minds of the next generations.

Whitaker Chambers warned us—Yuri Bresmenov -ex KGB warned us in 70’s and in 78 Solzhenitsyn warned us about our Press being liars in 78 at his Harvard address—stating US press was as bad as Stalin’s but we were under the illusion we had “Free” press.

I read a book a long time ago— Taylor Caldwell’s “Captains and the Kings”. It really did outline the money that actually was pulling all strings-—for candidates and politics and assassinations.

What can we do?——educate our own children and your grandchildren—get them off of the toxic culture grid-—and OUT of the “public schools” . Remember—the most brilliant men in US history did NOT go to “group think indoctrination centers”. Those kill creativity, incentive, competitiveness and masculinity. Our geniuses were homeschooled or tutored or were self-taught like Ben Franklin and Lincoln. Like Dennis Prager stated-—minds like Jobs and Gates—didn’t go through the inane universities which destroy character and as Prager stated-—It beats the Common Sense out of you. Makes you dumb.

With the internet and free excellent math programs on the internet...it could really be fun and easy to homeschool now : ) The resources are so superior today because of the internet and all the homeschooling curricula is excellent. I used some of it including their Latin course which was WAY superior than what I had in Catholic High School. They even have the Saxon math books and I think you can get the original McGuffey Readers, which was character-building curricula and the language and vocabulary for fourth grade beats that in graduate schools. I know—I have the McGuffey Readers. (Classics and the Bible).

The only way we will save this Republic is to take our children off of the Leftists’ sewer lines and quit feeding them cash and the minds of our little children. We have to truly EDUCATE our children, teach them morality, along with our grandchildren and extended families.

You can if you know what you are doing. We do it in the private sector everyday. I’ve been in charge of million dollar projects that, with simple planning, moved quickly, efficiently and cost effectively.

1. First, a million dollar project isn't necessarily a big deal. If you are, say, installing a new tape backup system, the tape library (capacity 1,200 tapes and one dozen high speed drives) might be $800,000. Add $50,000 for the humans setting it up, and there are a number of ways the remaining $150,000 could be spent (servers, utility software, etc.) without the project being terribly complex. Very little of the spending is discretionary.

2. You have to include the planning time in the speed of your project. I suspect you got everyone on the same page before you even got to Gate Zero. You had the luxury of setting everything up, and putting it in motion, as a good project manager should. You did NOT whip up execution in 24 hours before expending your first resources.

3. That level of planning cannot be done ahead of time when you don't know what will be damaged/destroyed and who will be displaced.

4. Of course, NY being a government enterprise, there is plenty of room for intrigue and malfeasance. Even if the government subcontracted the whole thing to a Halliburton type operation, the risk of misbehaviour arises from government regulations and also from being an extra step removed from regular market mechanisms (performance being only one criterion among many that determines payment). It would be about as clean and efficient as military procurement.

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