RE: Boin-ney, did I say it right?
March 10, 2016 at 8:09 pm
(This post was last modified: March 10, 2016 at 8:25 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 10, 2016 at 7:49 pm)Minimalist Wrote: It's not quite that innocent.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/19...60771.html
Quote:70 Percent Of Retired Generals Took Jobs With Defense Contractors Or Consultants
One wonders whose side they were on in the meanwhile?
Who knows..we can say for sure that they were on their own sides when they needed to career shop. Thing is, while they work at the DoD....they hate each other. Constantly tanking each others projects and blowing the whistle out of nothing more than spite, if nothing else is present. Their flaws work as controls. I'm not defending those guys at all, but the idea that the DoD, as an institution, is to blame for the problems congress creates because they are tasked with carrying out the programs congress demands....it's hard to make that stick. Even if a general was squeeky clean.....he's still required to say "Yes Sir". If he says he's doesn't want a Paladin, he's still gotta make room in the motor-pool. I know there's dirt, bottom to the top (hell, I lost a few months pay for profiteering - chocolate and cigs, lol... and a I got a coin from a general that was, apparently, selling them for their weight on the side)...I did mention that there -had- to be corruption, -had- to be collusion....but the waste and abuse and fraud doesn't start or stop there. It can't, they aren't even empowered to do so.
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