February 7, 2008

War Profiteering 101

Unfuckingbelievable.
Supportin' the troops defense cronies Republicunt style:

A North Dakota manufacturer has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a suit saying it had repeatedly shortchanged the armor in up to 2.2 million helmets for the military, including those for the first troops sent to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Twelve days before the settlement with the Justice Department was announced, the company, Sioux Manufacturing of Fort Totten, was given a new contract of up to $74 million to make more armor for helmets to replace the old ones, which were made from the late 1980s to last year.
No problem, the 74 million dollar contract will more than pay for the fine. Compromising quality at the risk of cannon fodder soldiers' lives....and then actually being rewarded for it.
The Republicunt free market at work.
Imagine the high pitched squealing if such an atrocity happened under a Clinton or Obama presidency.

Ow.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

And how did this company in "America's Heartland" come to get this contract to begin with? And how did they get the second while under investigation for the first?

When I dealt with Fed contracting officers, you get a mark like that and you were dead.

What?

Oh.

IOKIYAR.