May 2008 Wastewatcher
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A Monthly Dispatch from Citizens
The Government’s Net Loss
Government involvement in the private sector and technology has been a disaster. The technology industry is dynamic and fast-moving, delivering new products to consumers every day while the government struggles to perform even the most basic tasks such as creating software for a fully functioning e-travel system for the Pentagon (see the story about the Defense Travel System). Extreme Makeover: San Joaquin River How much should it cost to restore salmon to a river? Try $22 million per salmon under legislation that is moving through Congress. Pentagon’s Travel System Still Grounded With the immense of amount of travel undertaken by the federal government and especially the Department of Defense, an online travel system sounds like a marriage made in heaven. Unfortunately, combining logic and the federal government is as easy as putting a square peg in a round hole. Earmarks Invade DC An op-ed in the May 17 Washington Post by Colbert King showed that earmarks know no boundaries.
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Filed under: Defense, Pork, Technology, Waste, Wastewatcher
