$6 million dollar missing. Would you notice?

TerryBPP · 07-11-2007, 11:31 AM

In my local paper:

http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070711/NEWS01/707110376/1002/NEWS01

How would you not notice $6 million dollars added to your yearly expenditures?

osidak · 07-11-2007, 11:35 AM

friends of the family where getting divorced - the wife decided she wanted a little insurance - took right $500,000 out of the bank - Husband didn't know for the longest time

How did we know - She wanted to leave the cash at our house

Overpaid Slacker · 07-11-2007, 11:38 AM

Dr. O -- I hope you had nothing to do with that situation.

JP

Porsche-O-Phile · Porsche-O-Phile's Garage

That'll almost pay for ten whole minutes of the Iraq war!

osidak · 07-11-2007, 02:42 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Overpaid Slacker
Dr. O -- I hope you had nothing to do with that situation.

JP

hell no - i considered both to be friends and now do not speak to either. was a damn ugly divorce for no reason (no kids or anything)

she got nasty towards us when we refused to be the "holders"

DanielDudley · 07-12-2007, 04:21 PM

''Me, me, pick me !''

Aerkuld · Aerkuld's Garage

Somebody somewhere is building a Bionic Man

kach22i · kach22i's Garage

Nothing beats the government on missing and wasted items.

CDC
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=74150

Quote:

"In response to this inquiry, the CDC produced some records and information that raise troubling issues about its property management," the letter states. According to the letter, sent to HHS Inspector General Daniel Levinson, as of Feb. 22, the agency had listed 5,547 items -- including computers and scientific equipment -- worth $22 million, as "missing property," compared with 648 items, worth $1.6 million, listed as missing in February 1994.

..................... Sen. Coburn Report
Also on Tuesday, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) ranking member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs Financial Management Subcommittee discussed a report criticizing CDC's use of taxpayer dollars. The report cited, among other expenses, $200,000 spent on an employee fitness center and $1.7 million campaign aimed at portraying accurate medical information in television and films. Coburn said the agency "has wasted and continues to waste hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, but keeps asking taxpayers for more" (Kelley, USA Today, 6/13).