On Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:24:15 -0400, Stuart Wheaton
wrote:


I'm talking about the 3 star general
in charge of the Strategic Defense Command responsible for the Star Wars
stuff getting his hand caught in the cooky jar setting himself up with BDC
for a post retirement job.

Isn't that the libertarian Ideal? Sell himself to the highest bidder?
are you against regulations or for them?

So you think Libertarians are for breaking contracts when it suits
them? The 3 star was under a contract. He broke it.

I'm talking about the 2 star general that
changed a $750M contract scope of work to a cost + award fee effort to
Raytheon in spite of an Army science board paper which stated unequivocally
that the Army did not have anyone technicall qualified to perform an award
fee determination for that effort. I'm talking about two people that I know
who just obtained government funding to produce some three radars using
contract supplied radar pedestals of quality much inferior to those setting
right under their noses in the supply yard.

In a libertarian world, low quality means low cost right? Maximize
profits, nobody HAS to stand under them, Freedom Right?

Dumped on your head? Had to be to have typed that bit of dreck.


I'm talking about FEMA spending
over $1M producing houses for the Typhoon stricken Marshall Islands. The
houses were fabricated with prest wood with absolutely no studs.

So which great libertarian principle do you want applied here? More
oversight of FEMA? What about the contractor who built the shoddy
product? Why didn't that company, which arguably should know
construction better than some Bush college buddy now running procurement
for FEMA, why didn't they say, "Hey this won't do!, you gotta beef it
up"? were they libertarians, just making what they were told for
maximum profit?


More likely it was some Democrat hold over from a previous
administration
They afterall, have no honor or pride.
With just
a little removing of the blinders example after example of incompetent
government rulings are just obvious.

I'm not seeing how adding greed and removing oversight will solve it
though....


You are looking at things from a Democrat perspective, where
everything revolves around greed and corruption, as witnessed by New
Orleans and a host of other sad situations

Say..;hows Chicago doing these days?

Gunner

Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional,
illogical liberal minority, and rabidly promoted by an
unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the
proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.