The military has paid $188 million in late fees since THIS SUMMER for not returning shipping containers ›

Just want to bring your attention to one of THE BEST tumblrs in existence: govtoversight. Huge fan of these folks. Their reporting and procurement is top notch. We need more hard-information and less soft-opinion making from our news. This story is out-f#cking-rageous. Nearly a billion in late fees for shipping containers? And the GOP wants to cut Big Bird. What is Obama doing??? This story is infuriating.

Why so much this year? Because they just found six years of old invoices. That brings the total the military has paid in late fees since 2001 to $720 million.

This is an unacceptable failure of financial management. If the Pentagon’s late fees are so bad it couldn’t get a library card, how can we trust them with hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars? Read more at ArmyTimes.com.

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∞  10/05/12 at 10:10am via govtoversight
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    QUALITY LEADERSHIP!! >_
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    and these fuckers want me...pay back my student loans??? fuck that
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    yes. You are correct.
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    If I was in charge of the military just about every single thing would be completely different, but I gotta be honest...
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    So I’m not alone in my inability to get it together financially? Criminey.
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