Democrats cite no-bid Katrina contracts
The government awarded 70 percent of its contracts for Hurricane Katrina work without full competition, wasting hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars in the process, says a House study released...
View ArticleIdle Contractors Add Millions to Iraq Rebuilding
Read article of same name at New York Times. Short story (excerpt): Overhead costs have consumed more than half the budget of some reconstruction projects in Iraq, according to a government estimate...
View ArticleWhat is Wrong With America. We Can't Even Take Care of One Devastated City?
We had to go invade a nation to grab its sea of oil (Oh Please read Republican insider's Kevin Phillips' "American Theocracy" before you repeat the Republican mantra that it wasn't about oil) and now...
View ArticleIraq Rebuilding Short on Qualified Civilians
Another story on the trials and tribulations of trying to use a civilian reserve corp to help put back together what the neocons in their push to invade countries for big Republican contributors'...
View ArticleInspector General For Iraq Rebuilding To Report that (US) Government...
Excerpt Time Magazine report "Iraq Rebuilding Blunders ":The reconstruction of Iraq has cost U.S. taxpayers nearly $30 billion so far, and is still plagued with problems, as evidenced by the daily...
View ArticleMcClatchy: Iraqi insurgents taking cut of U.S. rebuilding money
Seems like McClatchy has the news that other publications don't cover.See report here . Registration does not seem to be required. There is too much to this and I'm out of time for selecting a good...
View ArticleNone of 115 Critical Rebuilding Projects of New Orleans Public Buildings Have...
Bush: "Nooyorleans's comin' back!" (Statement spelled like the president pronounced it.)Fictional Mainstream Journalist: Oh really, Mr. Bush? Then how many critical public buildings, would you say...
View ArticleRebuilding Aid Mostly Going to Affluent in Mississippi.
Add this report to the one qbout Alabama where the Bush administration allowed rebuilding to fund the building of condos aimed at sports fans aid 200 miles from the ocean.See NY Times report...
View ArticleIraqi Government is Lying About Number of Refugees Returning From Syria, Reasons
The US and Iraqi governments have been chortling about all the returning refugees from Syria. I did a post a while back showing that evidence is that they are not coming back due to the supposed...
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