The Daily Background
| Tax Money Waste: “TSA Got Little for $1 Billion”
by Arlen Parsa
I’ve spent a good deal of time bashing private contractors in the past. And I do know that in some cases, hiring private firms by the government to do certain, specific work, is unavoidable. However, this Administration is so eager to contract every single thing out: everything from supplying toaster ovens (which ended up costing $1,000), to spying on Americans.
The whole contract awardment process needs to be reformed, especially after that whole private-contractor bribing Republican Congressman $2 Mil for $270 Mil worth of contracts debacle. This should have raised concerns right there, that the government contract awarding process needed reforms and review right there. Meanwhile the private contractor company that bribed him is still getting paid our tax money with new contracts after they were barred from getting new contracts by the Pentagon.
MZM Inc isn’t getting their contracts re-bid upon, even after the former leader has been convicted of bribery. So imagine how bad a corporation called Unisys must be doing, if the U.S. Homeland Security Inspector General wants the contracts to be re-awarded? Associated Press:
Report: TSA Got Little for $1 Billion
A company awarded a $1 billion contract for airport security equipment performed so poorly that the Homeland Security Department’s inspector general recommended that the project be put out for bid again.The inspector general, Richard Skinner, found in a report released Thursday that Unisys received most of the $1 billion without providing the Transportation Security Administration much of the equipment “critical to airport security and communications.”
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“We are not pleased with the level of services provided as the services are not state of the art and in fact are archaic,” wrote one federal security director.Another complained that some cell phones — “a hodgepodge of $20 Radio Shack sale rack phones” — were so old they actually have a mechanical bell that rings.
Pfffffffffft. They contracted Unisys out to provide them with communications infrastructure– like cell phones? And they ended up getting 1996 cell phones? For 1 Billion freaking dollars?! They could have hired me to be their middleman with Verizon. Good God, this is the type of thing that shouldn’t have to be contracted out. Full article.
[…] What you should be concerned about is all the other things your tax money is going to. Billions of dollars that have disappeared in Iraq, one billion dollars worth of entirely inefficient TSA contracts, building bigger bombs, tax-payer funded propaganda “public relations,” fake worker safety meeting stings, the President’s crazy “let’s go to Mars!” agenda, factually bankrupt investigations of former Presidents that go nowhere, faked bombing raids, ten-million-dollar rooms that nobody stays in, 800 million dollars for trailers that are never used, unconstitutional spying on liberal groups, free SUVs leased for members of Congress… […]