Comments on: Incompetence at the FBI http://www.themannings.org/soapbox/2006/08/18/incompetence-at-the-fbi/ Pragmatic Libertarianism Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:37:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Sare http://www.themannings.org/soapbox/2006/08/18/incompetence-at-the-fbi/#comment-1669 Sare Fri, 25 Aug 2006 01:52:48 +0000 http://www.themannings.org/soapbox/2006/08/18/incompetence-at-the-fbi/#comment-1669 It really bugs me when the gov acts like it has money to burn... and so everyone who works on gov projects doesn't care about saving money either. Dude, I could really use the few thousand a year I pay in taxes, even if it's jump change to our administrators. It really bugs me when the gov acts like it has money to burn… and so everyone who works on gov projects doesn’t care about saving money either.

Dude, I could really use the few thousand a year I pay in taxes, even if it’s jump change to our administrators.

]]> By: Reach Upward http://www.themannings.org/soapbox/2006/08/18/incompetence-at-the-fbi/#comment-1651 Reach Upward Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:47:21 +0000 http://www.themannings.org/soapbox/2006/08/18/incompetence-at-the-fbi/#comment-1651 Boy, you got that right. Big government tech projects are hotbeds of mismanagement and abuse. Can you say, "Boondoggle," children? If you think this FBI thing is bad, it's nothing compared to the project on which I worked (as a peon) at the IRS a decade back. Congress funded $8 billion (yeah, with a 'B') for significant main system upgrades, since the IRS's main system was 30 years old. Five years and $4 billion into it, Congress demanded an accounting. Well, a lot of little pet projects had been done, $2 billion had gone down the tube on a failed imaging system that was supposed to make the IRS paperless, and the main computer systems were then 35 years old. Needless to say, some folks were pretty upset. Some heads rolled. And this doesn't even rank among some of the worst boondoggle projects that have burned up taxpayer bucks. This helps stoke my sentiment that we need less government, not more. Boy, you got that right. Big government tech projects are hotbeds of mismanagement and abuse. Can you say, “Boondoggle,” children?

If you think this FBI thing is bad, it’s nothing compared to the project on which I worked (as a peon) at the IRS a decade back. Congress funded $8 billion (yeah, with a ‘B’) for significant main system upgrades, since the IRS’s main system was 30 years old. Five years and $4 billion into it, Congress demanded an accounting. Well, a lot of little pet projects had been done, $2 billion had gone down the tube on a failed imaging system that was supposed to make the IRS paperless, and the main computer systems were then 35 years old. Needless to say, some folks were pretty upset. Some heads rolled. And this doesn’t even rank among some of the worst boondoggle projects that have burned up taxpayer bucks.

This helps stoke my sentiment that we need less government, not more.

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