Tax Dollars at Work: Pentagon pays $998 K for 2 $.19 washers!

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Friday August 17, 2007 · 9:03 AM PDT

2007/08/17 · 09:03

In a stunning example of the Pentagon's paying prowess, C&D Distributors, a "small parts supplier" in South Carolina, charged more than $20.5 million dollars in fraudulent shipping costs:

It's good these guys were caught, but here's where I think the problem really lies:

``The majority, if not all of these parts, were going to high-priority, conflict areas -- that's why they got paid,'' Stroot said. If the item was earmarked ``priority,'' destined for the military in Iraq, Afghanistan or certain other locations, ``there was no oversight.''

(emphasis mine).

More after the jump.

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Wednesday April 18, 2007 · 9:48 PM PDT

2007/04/18 · 21:48

I figure that Mark Buehrle's no-hitter is cause enough to begin my diary entering on DailyKos...

Anyhow, Mark Buehrle just tossed a no-hitter against the Texas Rangers. It may just be a cold Wednesday night in Chicago, but we're celebrating here on the South Side. As a lifelong Sox fan, I'm a little mad that I wasn't even watching this particular game on TV, but it would sure as hell have been better to even be there. You can check out ESPN's coverage here. I guess I picked the wrong cold game at The Cell when I went last week.

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Tax Dollars at Work: Pentagon pays $998 K for 2 $.19 washers!

It's been a rough week, but at least there's still Baseball