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calimary

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24. Welcome to DU, Bad Granny!

Reply to Bad Granny (Reply #11)

Fri Jan 16, 2015, 07:58 PM

Jan 2015

Glad you're here! I think that's spot on - "purposely misspent." Why not pad when you know you're gonna get away with it? When you have friends and cohorts in the highest of places and you expect to slide right on through along with them, why wouldn't you expect to get away with it? Get the big-ass contract. Do the work on the cheap. Pocket what you "saved." Then get outta Dodge.

We have to ask - WHY this keeps happening, and how to stop it once and for all.

However, knowing the foibles of human nature, I have my doubts that the "how to stop it" part is even a semi-achievable goal.

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Bricks Made Of Sand: Afghan training base melted in the rain? US wasted billions on botched projects [View all] kpete Jan 2015 OP

Someone left the base out in the rain corkhead Jan 2015 #1

They'll never have that cost-plus contract again. MrScorpio Jan 2015 #2

Actually, I would bet that they will.... daleanime Jan 2015 #6

Duzy! FSogol Jan 2015 #4

You're a hard man/woman to take seriously rock Jan 2015 #8

then it's working corkhead Jan 2015 #10

Do they say who the contractor was? Couldn't be Helliburton could it? One of those no bid contracts? jwirr Jan 2015 #3

Sounds like an Afghan company libodem Jan 2015 #7

Agreed. jwirr Jan 2015 #21

Make Darth Cheney reimburse us for it. SammyWinstonJack Jan 2015 #5

Halliburton would get the contracts PeoViejo Jan 2015 #9

"...wasted billions..." This money was not "wasted" in the sense of being purposely misspent. The Bad Granny Jan 2015 #11

+100. they're just traitors & parasites. ND-Dem Jan 2015 #16

Welcome to DU, Bad Granny! calimary Jan 2015 #24

BUT onethatcares Jan 2015 #12

Bricks of sand melting away is a pretty good metaphor for our efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Tierra_y_Libertad Jan 2015 #13

I like that think, you are on to something. gordianot Jan 2015 #14

Beautifully said. <eom> alcina Jan 2015 #15

''Castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually." - James Marshall Hendrix Octafish Jan 2015 #17

First thing I thought of, nice one!!! nt winstars Jan 2015 #19

Someone left the base out in the rain Fumesucker Jan 2015 #20

What was that recipe again? Octafish Jan 2015 #22

Where have I heard "bricks without straw" before? Spitfire of ATJ Jan 2015 #18

money pit/quicksand. this was profiteering for over a decade + no harry truman. pansypoo53219 Jan 2015 #23