I can't believe it even got this far without being noticed:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20070816/pl_bloomberg/ardg6dwccmfi
Just goes to show how much money our government has and how hard it is to keep track of it. Someone isn't doing their job right.
2007-08-16 17:40:59 · 9 answers · asked by bada_bing2k4 4 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Exactly - whoever was responsible for writing the software for this computer program should be held just as accountable...to not have some sort of flag set off when a ridiculous amount of money was requested with a priority stamp...what if they put in $2 billion? Nothing probably would have happened unless someone happened to notice it like they did.
2007-08-16 17:54:35 · update #1
This has nothing to do with corruption, it's about extreme incompetence with software programming and fraud monitoring.
2007-08-16 17:55:25 · update #2
What I love is when some news program covers a thing like this, where the DoD just sort of "loses track" of millions of dollars, in this country in Iraq, wherever.
And some pundit gets on the air, waves his hands around, and essentially says, "well you just sort of have to expect this kind of thing." Yeah. It's like the oil that makes the gears spin, you know?
I think in our new "global economy," the third world has imported our jobs, and we've imported their governmental management techniques.
2007-08-16 17:54:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It has everything to do with corruption. Those two people set out to defraud the government and the people who pay taxes to that government. They did use a "loophole" in the system where priority-shipped goods were not carefully checked. But, don't blame it on anyone but these two greedy SOBs. In other countries in wartime they would be put against a wall and shot.
2007-08-17 00:58:47 · answer #2 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I can believe other companies are getting over too. The fact that people try to get over on anyone is crazy to me. It probably took just as long to ship the screws and washers too!
2007-08-17 00:49:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
1 MILLION???????CEREAL??? Man and i thought importing cars were bad.lol
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I went to this site and I found out that only half of those screws and washers even come here! Also, only one third of the market ever buys a screw!
No wonder my screws werent delivered last year!
2007-08-17 00:49:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It shows how much they don't value our money. Obviously, if they have a system that automatically pays whatever the shipper requests, then someone was going to abuse it.
2007-08-17 00:51:00 · answer #5 · answered by melissa 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In this day and age of corruptness, NOTHING surprises me!!!
2007-08-17 00:53:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
God bless America.
2007-08-17 02:27:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was intentional,and deliberate!
2007-08-17 05:34:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
doesn't surprise me a bit
2007-08-17 00:52:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋