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Michael Kelly
About Government excessive spending, one of the things that came to my attention, was a fact that a young woman who was involved in the manufacturing of Aerospace components, was her statement to me that it was a habitual practice, for the Corporation and its division she worked with was the complete waste of machine tools. She said that the Department she was employed in would habitually Scrap out all the tools, including machinery that had been used in any one project. It didn't matter how long, or how brief in time such newly purchased tools and machinery had been put to use, the ending of the project no matter if it lasted a day, or five years, all the tools and machinery would be auctioned off for pennies on the dollar when the project was deemed to be concluded, and even if the project was resumed, new equipment had to be purchased before resumption of a project began all over again.
A missile Range, to test a newly developed missile, would run up the range for a test firing, and if a small, single cloud appeared in the sky miles and miles and miles away, the range time would go down as interfered with by inclement weather, or some such nomenclature, and the Cost of this lost time woud count against the Budget for that particular project. Consumption of endless gallons of Coffee would take place, conversations would cover evey known subject on the planet, and the next day, the spending would commence all over againl
All of this amounted to endless waste of Dollars, but at least it was somewhat close to a Margin of Justification, but limitless of Millions of Dollars spent for Alternative Lifestyle Comic Books in Kurghistan, and other Boondoggles is beyond Justification, and Complaining about "Cutting it from the USAID Budget" is beyond the Pale. Lipstick on a Pig type of thing.
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