• How the Pentagon spent $43 million on a single gas station
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[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/11/02/how-the-pentagon-spent-43-million-on-a-single-gas-station/[/url] [QUOTE]John Sopko’s team of investigators has uncovered all kinds of wasteful spending in Afghanistan through its work as a U.S. government watchdog. Now the group has uncovered a $43 million gas station, which Sopko calls “gratuitous and extreme”—and possibly criminal. In a scathing report, Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, wrote that a similar compressed natural gas station in Pakistan cost $500,000, or about $306,000 at current exchange rates, meaning the Afghanistan station cost 140 times as much.[/QUOTE]
Governments spend too much money on shady operations. This afternoon, we discover that water is indeed wet and fire gives you owies when you touch it.
This kinda reminds me of my time working for OMB (office of management and budget), aka the people that write the US's budget. They literally get drunk at work. Total waste of money, these people. Also, having booze in a government building is illegal IIRC. Gotta love the government.
Extreme incompetence or black operations? We may never know!
[QUOTE=MendozaMan;49034967]Governments spend too much money on shady operations. This afternoon, we discover that water is indeed wet and fire gives you owies when you touch it.[/QUOTE] Oh my god can people please stop making posts like this, they aren't funny or contributing anything in anyway. If you already know everything about the news topic and its so obvious to you, don't read the thread? By this logic people should stop reporting about anything that is deemed "obvious or common knowledge" by whatever arbitrary standards you have for what is news, and yet the only way that things like this become exposed, become common knowledge, and are discussed and subsequently acted on in the first place is through reports like these. i.e "Yeah we get it ISIS is still killing people, can we stop talking about it??"
What do you mean overspend, that's just the monthly AC bill
I knew we were only there for oil!!! :tinfoil:
[QUOTE=MendozaMan;49034967]Governments spend too much money on shady operations. This afternoon, we discover that water is indeed wet and fire gives you owies when you touch it.[/QUOTE] Jesus, how the hell can you say this. Maybe in Romania, but that shit don't fly here. Shady? How about outright fucking corrupt? This is exactly what has happened with the billions of dollars we spent in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is exactly what fucking happens when you pour billions into the corrupt defense industry without oversight. I guarantee you this isn't the first fucking time they've done this, why else would we bother sending billions of dollars to these places when countries like Russia can do the same thing for a fraction of the cost? It's because someone up there is getting paid big dollars in kickbacks and contracts to friends and relatives for the sake of money. You can't say that this happened twenty years ago because it fucking didn't. We didn't have the vice president who being an associate of Halliburton, the same company he once was CEO and Chairman for dish out millions in kickbacks to. We didn't have a multi-billion dollar government contracting industry built around this same motherfucker. If this was an intelligence base, then they'll come out and say it. But they won't, because it's blatantly fucking apparent they overcharged themselves a contract as a kickback. That's why they're saying nothing about it. And who knows, maybe they'll say that and it's a fucking coverup. And this isn't the only thing they did, I live in DC, I know this shit has been happening ever since 9/11 happened. If anything, the FBI should investigate this and fucking prosecute them. Then we should audit the DoD for blatant disregards for taxpayer money, and outright corruption.
[QUOTE=Xystus234;49035461]Jesus, how the hell can you say this. Maybe in Romania, but that shit don't fly here. Shady? How about outright fucking corrupt? This is exactly what has happened with the billions of dollars we spent in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is exactly what fucking happens when you pour billions into the corrupt defense industry without oversight. I guarantee you this isn't the first fucking time they've done this, why else would we bother sending billions of dollars to these places when countries like Russia can do the same thing for a fraction of the cost? It's because someone up there is getting paid big dollars in kickbacks and contracts to friends and relatives for the sake of money. You can't say that this happened twenty years ago because it fucking didn't. We didn't have the vice president who being an associate of Halliburton, the same company he once was CEO and Chairman for dish out millions in kickbacks to. We didn't have a multi-billion dollar government contracting industry built around this same motherfucker. If this was an intelligence base, then they'll come out and say it. But they won't, because it's blatantly fucking apparent they overcharged themselves a contract as a kickback. That's why they're saying nothing about it. And who knows, maybe they'll say that and it's a fucking coverup. And this isn't the only thing they did, I live in DC, I know this shit has been happening ever since 9/11 happened. If anything, the FBI should investigate this and fucking prosecute them. Then we should audit the DoD for blatant disregards for taxpayer money, and outright corruption.[/QUOTE] Nothing will happen, as we all know.
Our government is corrupt as hell.
[QUOTE=Reshy;49035657]Our government is corrupt as hell.[/QUOTE] Most likely it was the contractors did it, and US is like "heres a blank check"
[QUOTE=counterpo0;49035719]Most likely it was the contractors did it, and US is like "heres a blank check"[/QUOTE] Well yes, but they likely offered to give a "donation" to them for a vastly inflated check.
[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index[/url] Corruption Perceptions Index
Woah, looks like someone got paid really nicely for seeing over this contract.
[QUOTE=Xystus234;49035461]Jesus, how the hell can you say this. Maybe in Romania, but that shit don't fly here. Shady? How about outright fucking corrupt? This is exactly what has happened with the billions of dollars we spent in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is exactly what fucking happens when you pour billions into the corrupt defense industry without oversight. I guarantee you this isn't the first fucking time they've done this, why else would we bother sending billions of dollars to these places when countries like Russia can do the same thing for a fraction of the cost? It's because someone up there is getting paid big dollars in kickbacks and contracts to friends and relatives for the sake of money. You can't say that this happened twenty years ago because it fucking didn't. We didn't have the vice president who being an associate of Halliburton, the same company he once was CEO and Chairman for dish out millions in kickbacks to. We didn't have a multi-billion dollar government contracting industry built around this same motherfucker. If this was an intelligence base, then they'll come out and say it. But they won't, because it's blatantly fucking apparent they overcharged themselves a contract as a kickback. That's why they're saying nothing about it. And who knows, maybe they'll say that and it's a fucking coverup. And this isn't the only thing they did, I live in DC, I know this shit has been happening ever since 9/11 happened. If anything, the FBI should investigate this and fucking prosecute them. Then we should audit the DoD for blatant disregards for taxpayer money, and outright corruption.[/QUOTE] well at the very least, we poured billions into financing afghan warlords and today the taliban are only marginally weaker than they were after the first year of occupation. its been no well kept secret that we were routinely dropping dumptrucks full of taxpayer money over there for personal expenditures, meanwhile the republicans don't bat an eye at it, seeing that as nesscisry for national defense, yet they will shut the government down for a poultry few million for abortions
[QUOTE=Reshy;49035734]Well yes, but they likely offered to give a "donation" to them for a vastly inflated check.[/QUOTE] Sometimes it's stock, sometimes it's employment. Most of the time it's contractors charging exorbitant amounts for services like "inspections" or "services" that nobody fucking needs. But they approve it for whatever reason they like because sometimes they know the people who are doing the contracts, for starters. Who the hell willingly spends that kind of taxpayer money or agrees to unless they're getting something out of it?
I bet the gas station sells jet fuel and it's the very same fuel used to melt the pentagons steel beams
[quote]The department that was in charge of it, the Task Force for Stability and Business Operations, has closed and so the Pentagon said it couldn’t comment on its activities, Sopko’s letter said. He wrote that he found it “both shocking and incredible that DOD asserts that it no longer has any knowledge about TFBSO, an $800 million program that reported directly to the Office of the Secretary of Defense and only shut down a little over six months ago.”[/quote] [quote]The gas station was intended to help Afghanistan curb its dependence on foreign petroleum products and take advantage of domestic energy. But investigators found that Afghanistan does not have the natural gas transmission infrastructure to support a “viable market” for cars that used compressed natural gas.[/quote] Direct quotes from the article, this whole thing is super shady
[quote]Then we should audit the DoD for blatant disregards for taxpayer money, and outright corruption. [/quote] You do that and the United States would implode as profit margins fell off a cliff and shareholders took that as indication the world was ending.
[QUOTE=pentium;49037795]You do that and the United States would implode as profit margins fell off a cliff and shareholders took that as indication the world was ending.[/QUOTE] DOD gets audited through the GAO
[QUOTE=proch;49035194]What do you mean overspend, that's just the monthly AC bill[/QUOTE] Nope not even close. At $43 million a month that'd only be $516 million a year. The DoD actually spends $20 billion a year, which is [B]more than the budget for NASA.[/B]
[QUOTE=agentfazexx;49035740][url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index[/url] Corruption Perceptions Index[/QUOTE] Considering that all corruption is willfully hid some of the countries closer to 100 are just good at hiding it, and some closer to 0 are just shit at hiding it.
Misleading title, nobody can explain how that money was spent.
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