XTankLt
September 11th, 2009, 5:03 pm
For all those pundits who claim ObamaCare will help streamline and fix our Health Care system, please reconsider your opinion.
Remember when Bush said we needed the Dept of Homeland Security to help streamline and make things more efficent in doing Govt business?
Well, it looks like Govt mismanagement is still with us. Do you really believe that the Govt will fix things right?
I may be a conservative but come on you folks on the left, do you really want more Govt Bureaucracy in your life??? Do you think the O admin can do better? I don't think either can.
Article below.
http://www.lodinews.com/articles/2009/09/11/news/0-homeland-security-090911.txt
America's War Within: Homeland Security marked by waste, lack of oversight
California Watch, a new unit started by the nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting, examined thousands of pages of documents from 160 monitoring reports written by state homeland security officials who visited cities and counties across California to inspect equipment and grant records for compliance with federal guidelines.
Among the findings:
Inspectors identified more than $15 million in questionable costs. The Lincoln Police Department in Placer County spent $47,000 on computer software designed to analyze crime reports so officials could better apply resources but, like Marin County, didn't use what they bought.
Cities and agencies bought things with grant money that would not make California a safer place. One county tried to use anti-terrorism funds for a lawnmower but it was blocked at the last minute. Another county succeeded in buying a big-screen television.
Dozens of cities and agencies failed to keep adequate records on how they spent the money. In some cases, the poor record keeping resulted in thousands of dollars worth of overpayments to local agencies. In other cases, agencies were unable to find where they stored their own equipment.
Communities repeatedly bought large and small-ticket items without seeking competitive bids. Federal procurement rules designed to protect the taxpayer weren't used on millions of dollars in new communications systems, night-vision goggles and bomb-disposal robots.
Remember when Bush said we needed the Dept of Homeland Security to help streamline and make things more efficent in doing Govt business?
Well, it looks like Govt mismanagement is still with us. Do you really believe that the Govt will fix things right?
I may be a conservative but come on you folks on the left, do you really want more Govt Bureaucracy in your life??? Do you think the O admin can do better? I don't think either can.
Article below.
http://www.lodinews.com/articles/2009/09/11/news/0-homeland-security-090911.txt
America's War Within: Homeland Security marked by waste, lack of oversight
California Watch, a new unit started by the nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting, examined thousands of pages of documents from 160 monitoring reports written by state homeland security officials who visited cities and counties across California to inspect equipment and grant records for compliance with federal guidelines.
Among the findings:
Inspectors identified more than $15 million in questionable costs. The Lincoln Police Department in Placer County spent $47,000 on computer software designed to analyze crime reports so officials could better apply resources but, like Marin County, didn't use what they bought.
Cities and agencies bought things with grant money that would not make California a safer place. One county tried to use anti-terrorism funds for a lawnmower but it was blocked at the last minute. Another county succeeded in buying a big-screen television.
Dozens of cities and agencies failed to keep adequate records on how they spent the money. In some cases, the poor record keeping resulted in thousands of dollars worth of overpayments to local agencies. In other cases, agencies were unable to find where they stored their own equipment.
Communities repeatedly bought large and small-ticket items without seeking competitive bids. Federal procurement rules designed to protect the taxpayer weren't used on millions of dollars in new communications systems, night-vision goggles and bomb-disposal robots.