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    Your tax dollar at work

    In Afghanistan


    The Pentagon spent $43 million on a compressed natural gas station in Afghanistan that should have cost about $300,000, according to a special inspector general report released Monday.

    “One of the most troubling aspects of this project is that the Department of Defense claims that it is unable to provide an explanation for the high cost of the project or to answer any other questions concerning its planning, implementation, or outcome,” Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko wrote in a letter to Defense Secretary Ashton Carter accompanying the report.
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    The task force ended in March. Because of that, the Pentagon told the special inspector general it no longer had the personnel or documentation to answer why the cost ballooned, according to the report.


    What would be interesting to find out is: Who is getting rich here? Is it the contractors or the local Afghani warlords. vs. ?
    Socrates: "Good is That at which all things aim, If one knows what the good is, one will always do what is good." Brian: "Romanes eunt domus"
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    Enough wasted money for both.
    It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
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    • #3
      With that kind of boondoggle, there's basically no limit to where the money might have gone. Probably after some digging we'll find out eighty grand or so went to buying little boys from Thailand for those pedos we've apparently been protecting.
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      • #4
        America is bringing freedom and good government to these people. A few minor cost overruns here and there are only to be expected.
        There is nothing to see here, it's just a minor glitch as America helps the backwards people of Afghanistan develop the same clean and honest
        government that the USA enjoys.

        Instead of dwelling on these minor extra expenses we should be celebrating and praising America for so capably shouldering the white man's burden.

        USA! USA! USA!
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        • #5
          The Pentagon spent $43 million on a compressed natural gas station in Afghanistan that should have cost about $300,000, according to a special inspector general report released Monday.
          Not even Greece is THAT effective!

          :respect:

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            "The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.

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            • #7
              What's the equivalent phrase in Slovenia? "Your tax Euro at work?"
              No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.

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              • #8
                Mad Monski dickukski is tinus

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by The Mad Monk View Post
                  What's the equivalent phrase in Slovenia? "Your tax Euro at work?"
                  In Slovenia it used to be the tax Tolar, they regret the switch to Euro as well...
                  Socrates: "Good is That at which all things aim, If one knows what the good is, one will always do what is good." Brian: "Romanes eunt domus"
                  GW 2013: "and juistin bieber is gay with me and we have 10 kids we live in u.s.a in the white house with obama"

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Bereta_Eder View Post
                    Not even Greece is THAT effective!

                    :respect:
                    Your problem in today's world is that you are not allowed to print that stuff.

                    Injustice.
                    Socrates: "Good is That at which all things aim, If one knows what the good is, one will always do what is good." Brian: "Romanes eunt domus"
                    GW 2013: "and juistin bieber is gay with me and we have 10 kids we live in u.s.a in the white house with obama"

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                    • #11
                      I whistleblew on a contract in Eastern Europe and saved the DoD $6.1 million in overcharges in a single FY. I couldn't quantify the overcharges from previous years.
                      "Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
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                      • #12
                        Julius Levinson: You don't actually think they spent $20,000 on a hammer, $30,000 on a toilet seat, do you?
                        "I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration." - Hillary Clinton, 2003

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by OneFootInTheGrave View Post
                          In Slovenia it used to be the tax Tolar, they regret the switch to Euro as well...
                          Wait, are Slovenia and Croatia different countries?

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                          • #14
                            If you asked for Slovenia and Slovakia, or Austria and Australia.
                            Socrates: "Good is That at which all things aim, If one knows what the good is, one will always do what is good." Brian: "Romanes eunt domus"
                            GW 2013: "and juistin bieber is gay with me and we have 10 kids we live in u.s.a in the white house with obama"

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                            • #15
                              Did he really confuse Slovenia with Croatia?

                              (and it was a good joke, but he killed it)

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