republicans waste billions

HE DEPARTMENT of Homeland Security is an MBA's nightmare. When Congress cobbled DHS together in 2002, it took apart and reassembled elements from disparate federal agencies into an uneasy consolidation, too big and too varied, some say, for even the department's tireless head, Michael Chertoff, to adequately control. Instead of synergy, a fair measure of incompetence followed, including, The Post reported Wednesday, embarrassingly poor oversight of the billions of dollars the department has paid to private.

According to the review, which was drafted by outside specialists on government contracting, almost none of the contract files examined met standards of quality or even completeness. The documentation for 33 of 72 contracts the investigators sought to evaluate could not even be located, which makes you wonder how DHS ensures that contractors aren't wasting government money.

Poor contract management, the report concluded, has led to "the inability to obtain quality goods and services on time and at a fair price." These contracts date from fiscal 2005, during which DHS distributed nearly $17.5 billion to contractors and the federal government ran a deficit of $318 billion.
Another example of these republicans giving the most to those who have the most.