Legal Commentary

Republicans Waste The Nation's Money

By TChris

Here's more evidence of Republican incompetence to manage the government, as if more were needed:

The government wasted millions of dollars on four no-bid contracts it handed out for Hurricane Katrina work, including paying $20 million for a camp for evacuees that was never inspected and proved to be unusable, investigators say.

Not to mention the Fence to Nowhere:

The Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday that cost overruns, legal obstacles and other problems were imperiling its goal of completing the 670 miles of fencing and technological improvements on the Southwest border that President Bush has promoted as vital to securing it.

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To finish the fence, Homeland Security wants to redirect $400 million in department funds "from other purposes." In other words, money that could be spent on, um, homeland security would instead be diverted to a useless fence that protects the nation from nothing. But $400 million won't be enough.

The [GAO] report said the average cost had risen this year to $7.5 million per mile for pedestrian barriers, typically large steel and mesh plates, and $2.8 million per mile for vehicle fencing, usually an array of short thick poles. February’s estimates were $4 million for pedestrian fencing and $2 million for vehicles.

Can the nation afford four more years of Republican mismanagement?

Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 11, 2008 (boomark / email).