Someone needs to go to jail! Don't pass go or collect $200.00!

[Tim4319]

This is a total shame! Sorry if this is a dupe, but when I read this, I was becoming more and more upset with each line I read. There were able companies in the area that could have done the job for half the money. Instead, they "no bid" contracted a company from Alaska, paying them double what the job cost. And this government wants to continue to cut funding from people who already don't have anything in order to continue to line their pockets with. Not only should Tom DeLay be indicted, there is a laundry list of others that need to be with him. This is really messed up!

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Federal officials have given a $40 million no-bid contract at Mississippi hurricane-battered schools to a politically connected company thousands of miles away that has no experience with temporary classrooms.

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"There are a lot of questions about waste, fraud and abuse," he said. Akima "is going to make $20 million off the deal," Thompson said. "They're selling trailers for $88,000, but you can buy them off any lot for $42,000."

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051002/NEWS0110/510020406/1260

[DemInDistress]

1. Not someone...........but

the entire Bush Crime Family needs a long stretch in prison,we need a
new "Deep Throat"....

[Historic NY]

2. $2500 blue plastic tarps for roofs.......

FEMA is spending that much on them......for a few more dollars they could reshingle the roof.

http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=14614

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-09-26-nobid-contracts_x.htm

http://dirk-mcquigley.dailykos.com/story/2005/10/1/44458/5611

[Tim4319]

4. This is ridiculous!

[pansypoo53219]

3. remember when the returds

would yell waste fraud and abuse when the democrats had the money purse and how the waved the banner of fiscal responsibility?
i guess that was just talk. or worse.