http://techliberation.com/2008/11/29/waste-fraud-and-abuse/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Sun, 27 May 2012 20:03:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://techliberation.com/2008/11/29/waste-fraud-and-abuse/comment-page-1/#comment-59530 fraud prevention Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:28:09 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=14497#comment-59530 <p>Fraud is a big problem for all of us.</p> Fraud is a big problem for all of us.

]]> http://techliberation.com/2008/11/29/waste-fraud-and-abuse/comment-page-1/#comment-56802 MikeRT Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:26:29 +0000 http://techliberation.com/?p=14497#comment-56802 <p>Nothing will be changed until most of the civil service can be fired over incompetence. People don't realize just how much power incompetent, effectively unaccountable peons can have over government spending. It's often not the fault of government contractors when things go wrong, but rather the government side of things. I've seen cases where contractors have practically gotten down on their knees, begging to have lower-level bad decisions overridden by a higher up, and the higher up wouldn't override his subordinate's decision even in the presence of overwhelming evidence that their decision was a horrible waste of money.</p> Nothing will be changed until most of the civil service can be fired over incompetence. People don't realize just how much power incompetent, effectively unaccountable peons can have over government spending. It's often not the fault of government contractors when things go wrong, but rather the government side of things. I've seen cases where contractors have practically gotten down on their knees, begging to have lower-level bad decisions overridden by a higher up, and the higher up wouldn't override his subordinate's decision even in the presence of overwhelming evidence that their decision was a horrible waste of money.

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