Posted on 02/01/2002 2:41:48 PM PST by Uncle Bill
Clinton signs $288 billion military spending bill into law
US Senate approves $288 bln military spending bill
"lawmakers could not resist spending the money in fattened government accounts."
If you really want to discover waste, look at what is purchased. Don't look for $400 hammers and $1500 coffee makers; those are actually valid purchases (the $400 hammer is a special non-ferrous tool for bomb disposal and the coffee maker is a no-spill for long distance planes (the airlines actually were spending more for the same thing).). Instead, look at the prices for things like electronic parts and repair parts for our machines. This is because the buyer doesnt know the true value of the item and doesnt realize the govt is being overcharged.
The Admiral Shanahan has it exactly right. If the government doesn't keep accounts, how do they know how much they need for a department? The reason Rumsfield is looking for 2.3 trillion dollars is because they don't keep accounts. I say again, they don't keep accounts, period.
Another thing that most people don't know, the Federal Reserve does not keep accounts. I repeat, the Federal Reserve does not keep accounts such as your local bank does. You send your tax dollars into the bottomless pit called the Federal Reserve. They shovel out the checks for the government accounts as they are requested.
The Federal Reserve does not keep account of the various departments. I repeat, the Federal Reserve does not keep accounts of the various departments. The only conclusion that can be made is that our tax and budget process is one big scam.
Where do you think Arthur Andersen learned his accounting methods? He uses these methods in his work for the Federal government. He is the largest accounting contractor for the Federal government. Wake up America, you see in the Enron debacle. our monetary and tax system.
Could that be the secret CIA budget. It comes from somewhere.
Good luck to him. Bureaucrats can be tougher fighters than the Taliban.
The only firm rule and requirement is that you do not endanger your or anyone else's swimming pool. No matter what, or you get fired.
Republic - the whistleblowers get fired. I know, I was one.
bttt rowdee - - The WAR ON WASTE.....the one war no politician or bureaucrat will ever WAGE! 13 posted on 2/1/02 4:09 PM Pacific by Rowdee
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weikel - "I wonder how much the civilian parts steal given that the military is more honest in most respects." 8 posted on 2/1/02 4:02 PM Pacific by weikel
I worked both civilian and military, and I agree. But, there is not so much corruption as just plain laziness and incompetence, and it's not my business.
Complete and total looting and pillaging of Washington by the Clintoons and their appointees and allies from 1992-2000.
Not necessarily. My $86 each 3/4" sheet metal screws, and my $300 washers come to mind.
Not quite right, but pretty much. There is no standardized accounting system, and no integrated accounting. There are thousands of little accounts/books kept all over the government, but there is really 'no accounting for them'.
Glad to see their putting it to good use.
And they want to federalize the airports for better security. Get ready, Joe taxpayer.
I don't know. Prostitutes and cocaine?
Attorney General John Ashcroft Picks Arthur Andersen For FBI Review
Requiem for Enron
Regarding Kenneth Lay: "First, founders of companies don't tend to ignore what's going on with their babies and, second, he knows all about accounting practices," says a Wall Street banker who spoke on condition of anonymity. In fact, the 59-year-old Enron chairman studied economics at the University of Missouri, earned a doctorate in the subject and, as a naval officer serving in the Pentagon worked to develop more efficient accounting systems. Lay also served as an aide to a federal-government regulator for the natural-gas industry."
"Arthur Andersen" has 64 contracts covering a range of consulting services
Pentagon Auditors Get Poor Grade in Examination
Associated Press
By Larry Margasak
December 5, 2001
WASHINGTON (AP) - The agency that investigates fraud and abuse inside the Pentagon is getting a poor grade after it was caught cheating on a review of its own performance.
The Pentagon inspector general's office was subjected to an intensive audit this fall after discovery that the watchdog office destroyed internal documents, and created new ones, to win a favorable grade in a previous check of its work.
The discovery invalidated the previous review, which had given the office a passing grade.
In the new review, also called a "peer review," federal investigators gave the Pentagon a "qualified opinion," the second-lowest rating a federal inspector general can receive.
The review found the agency didn't always follow proper auditing procedures and raised new questions about its paperwork, noting some investigative documents were prepared or changed after the fact.
"If working papers are added or changed after a report is issued, they may no longer support the issued report or clearly support the auditor's conclusions and judgments," the review said.
The review said the Pentagon agency had a subpar performance in planning audits, documenting its conclusions and, in one instance, allowing an auditor to review a program in which he directly participated.
The Defense Department's deputy inspector general, Robert Lieberman, said his agency is correcting the problems, and a new computer program will avoid many of the mistakes.
"A lot of these things are not show-stoppers in terms of the accuracy of the (audit) reports themselves," Lieberman said. "The peer review is concerned with procedures rather than results."
Lieberman would not discuss the document destruction, revealed by a whistle-blower and confirmed by an internal report.
Inspector general offices are installed inside federal agencies as internal watchdog to investigate fraud, waste and abuse and to audit financial statements, a massive task in the Pentagon, which spends some $300 billion a year.
President Bush has nominated Joseph Schmitz to be the Defense Department's new inspector general. He has not been confirmed by the Senate.
"Once President Bush's nominee for the IG job is in place, he will need to clean house from top to bottom. Heads must roll," said Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, a frequent critic of the Pentagon audit agency.
Federal audit guidelines could have justified an adverse rating, the lowest possible, had the review identified similar deficiencies in all aspects of the Pentagon's inspector general operations. The agency was spared that grade because the problems were discovered in only two of its four audit divisions.
GAO lays down the law: auditors of agencies cant be consultants
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