Waste, Fraud and Abuse

April 24th 2008

A friend of TAKE YOUR MONEY BACK recently sent us a fascinating -- and appalling -- video of Byron Dorgan (D., North Dakota) speaking to his fellow United States Senators about "waste, fraud, and abuse" in connection with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In his estimation, hundreds of billions of dollars ($100,000,000,000) have been "poured down a rathole" in the years since the United States invaded those countries.

Take a look at: http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/307.html

Along the way the Senator mentions trucks left to rot by the roadside because the drivers didn't have a wrench they needed to change the tires, forklift pallets of cold cash being shipped by air to the countries in question (eighteen billion dollars in cash has just disappeared), and contracts let out to a phony company -- a mere paperwork shell -- run by a kid in his twenties and a former massage therapist.

And of course Halliburton is up to its usual dirty dealings.

Naturally, this is only the tip of the "waste, fraud, and abuse" iceberg in two wars that have so far cost over three trillion dollars ($3,000,000,000,000).

What the Senator wants is to set up a "Truman Committee" like the one used by the Franklin Roosevelt Administration to investigate similar -- but vastly more modest -- criminality and incompetence following World War Two. Of course in the long run, this committee accomplished nothing -- or we wouldn't be having the same problem today.

We here at TAKE YOUR MONEY BACK have a much better idea.

As the great Alphonso Bedoya might have put it, "We don' need no stinkin' committee!" The best way to keep government from wasting our money is not to let them collect it in the first place. We can waste our own money if we want, because it's our money to waste. Government, however, wastes everybody's money by doing things that could have been done better, cheaper, and safer by companies and individuals in the private marketplace -- or by doing things that shouldn't be done at all!

Click and watch the amazing video. Then, if it makes you mad, come see us at http://www.takeyourmoneyback.com and learn what you can do, right now, with no help whatever from some useless Senate committee.

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