Conservativism: n : a political or theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes.
Conserve: keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction.
Time for a new adjective for the Republican Majority.
If the behavior of our government employees looks like this when funding for disaster recovery avails itself... imagine what they could do with a series of unbudgeted war appropriations.
WASHINGTON, July 18 — Flat-bottomed rescue boats at double the retail price, $68,500 worth of unused dog booties, hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of computers that somehow disappeared and a $227 beer brewing kit.(...)
The audit, by the Government Accountability Office, which is due to be released Wednesday, concluded that the credit card misuse could probably have been avoided had the department completed a long-planned rulebook for its more than 9,000 employees who spent $420 million last year using government-issued credit cards.
Instead, “due to a lack of leadership” at the department, the draft manual has never been finished, creating accounting weaknesses that “leave D.H.S. highly vulnerable to fraudulent, improper and abusive activity,” the audit says.
Ah yes, the war funding...
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US government has lost track of the cost of the "war on terror" unleashed after the September 11 attacks and which is now taking up tens of billions of dollars a year in Iraq and Afghanistan, a Congress watchdog warned.The Government Accountability Office (GAO) said that neither the Defence Department nor Congress had any accurate idea how much the war has cost since the attacks on New York and Washington in 2001.
It said Congress has appropriated about 430 billion dollars for "war on terror" spending, which includes military operations and reconstruction costs in Iraq, but raised concerns about the way the money was being accounted for.
Conservatives are not in charge. This nation's being run by a buch of incompetent blood-thirsty frat boys on a bender.
Posted by kerry at July 20, 2006 03:10 AM