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2013-07-30 Afghanistan

Audit Raps USAID for Wasting almost $50 mln in Afghanistan

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Posted by Fred 2013-07-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 "roughly a quarter of the total program budget -- on conferences, overhead and workshops. This looks like bad value for U.S. taxpayers and the Afghan people."

Nah, I'd say it's probably a better value than most U.S. programs.

Posted by Bobby 2013-07-30 05:50|| 2013-07-30 05:50|| Front Page Top

#2 The rest of the package went to Taliban?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-07-30 05:52|| 2013-07-30 05:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Detroit.

Posted by Pappy 2013-07-30 10:19|| 2013-07-30 10:19|| Front Page Top

#4 $50 million? Small potatoes. Flight line construction on Kandahar airfield alone probably ten times that.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-07-30 10:20|| 2013-07-30 10:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Perspective -

Solyndra received a $535 million U.S. Energy Department loan guarantee before going bankrupt. Under the Solyndra restructuring plan, the government is projected to recoup 19 percent on $142.8 million of the loan and nothing on the remaining $385 million.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-07-30 16:11|| 2013-07-30 16:11|| Front Page Top

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