Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel today detailed plans to spend some $10 billion on a major overhaul of the infrastructure surrounding America’s massive nuclear weapons program.
Hagel ordered management reviews of the nuclear facilities after several embarrassing scandals and, unsurprisingly, the reports turned out to be excuses to pump billions more into the program.
The Pentagon studies revealed a collection of embarrassing bungles, including blast doors that wouldn’t shut, and management teams that were uninterested in the maintenance of the arsenal.
Perhaps the most preposterous revelation was that the nuclear forces were down to only a single wrench of the size used to attach a type of common nuclear warheads to missiles. No effort was ever made to see if another wrench could be purchased, and instead the forces were FedExing the single wrench back and forth among three different bases to use it.
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And nowhere within Hagel's statements was there any indication that people were going to either go to jail or at a minimum lose their jobs. The incident with the wrench is just plain willful incompetence. What the hell were the inspectors doing when they supposedly were doing THEIR job?
Watching porn most likely. And they wouldn't be the first government employees to get their jollies at US taxpayer expense. http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/sec-pornography-employe…
If there was only one wrench, then a local machine shoup could have fabricated more for less then $200 each.
For surely we have not a government, but a money tree designed by the corporate rich to give tax dollars to corporations in a way that maximizes profit for the richest of the rich.
Actually, a money dictatorship that becomes most evident when you go to court against someone better able to advance the careers of the judge, lawyers and jury. For everyone gets to enslave the next man less wealthy, surely every man worships the next one more wealthy
No discussion about what part of the productive economy needs to be cannibalized to lure away precious goods and skills with the top dollar prices from USD 10 billion fresh "money"?