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Lack of Contractor Oversight Faulted in New Orleans Clean-Up
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Anyone who has ever had work done in their home will not be surprised to learn that a multi-tiered system of contractors is doing its part to make the rebuilding effort in New Orleans run behind schedule and over budget. Last Thursday, the Government Accountability Office said that a lack of oversight in organizing the contractors has cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars; backing that up was a review by the Washington Post showing instances of mark-ups running as high as 1700%. The system in place is rife with discrimination; on a single roof-patching job, for instance, the Spanish-speaking crew actually doing the work gets less than a dime for each square foot of tarpaulin installed. But the prime contractor (the guy who hired the guy who hired the guy who hired the guy who hired the workers) is billing the government 15 times as much for the same work.
Go figure
I wonder who the prime contractors are.........Is Haliburton involved?
THE COMMON WORKING GUY SPEAKS!!!
halliburton?
yes, the corruptest of the corrupt.
WHEW!
Thank GAWD the CONS killed the "We won't give new defense contracts to company's that overcharge the gov't by more than $100 million" amendment. As I sat there with jaw wide open watchin C-SPAN I was (for some reason) utterly shocked as this amendment was killed by the CONS. As a whole the amendment sucked anyways- it's ok to overcharge the gov't (reads american people) $90 million, but not $100 million? It's all moot because the buttmuncheres killed it. Too bad this killed amendment has yet to make it into any tv media or any media as I know of. It's a shame that Everything has to go to hell in a handbasket before Americans will get off their PHAT asses and do anything.
What,me inert? Pass the TV remote & fuckin' bag of Doritos !!
What,me inert? Pass the TV remote & fuckin' bag of Doritos !!
Welcome to the wonderful world of government contracting
I work for the government and I see this first hand. I send in requests to get things done, they go to one person who passes them on to another. That person then gives them to their boss who decides if the work is necessary or not. Remember they are not in your location, they are usually across the country. Once approved the authorization is given to another person, that contacts their contractor, that contractor calls another contractor and that contractor calls a company local to me. My question is this, why can't I just go to the local contractor directly and get the job done for about 1/2 the cost? This has been my question since I started in this job, but this is the way the Bush administration works. Contract everything out. My problem is some of these contractors are doing nothing but contracting out with someone else, moving paper around and getting paid a lot of money.
Your tax dollars at work.
Malkavian.
malkavian, amen
bush said he was going to change the way things are done in washington, or some sort of bs like that.