YOUR tax dollars

hard at work. VERY hard that is

(not enough armor or armored vehicles for our troops. no insurance for LOTS of america's children. victims of natural disasters such as katrina still out in the cold and on and on. yet halliburton et al are living high on the hog so to speak)

Largest Iraq contract rife with errors

By Matt Kelley, USA TODAY
Government auditors discovered something odd last year when they reviewed KBR Inc.'s annual cost estimate to provide support services for U.S. troops in Iraq. The contractor proposed charging $110 million for housing, food, water, laundry and other services on bases that had been shut down.
KBR got a contract extension for $3.7 billion, but it agreed to drop the proposed $110 million spending on closed bases and an additional $50 million of duplicate charges and math errors, according to Defense Department records obtained by USA TODAY under the Freedom of Information Act.
IRAQ: Pentagon approves disputed costs
Linda Theis of the Army Sustainment Command, the agency that oversees KBR's troop-support contract, downplayed the errors. They amount to just 4.3% of the contract amount, she said. "This percentage does not indicate a systemic weakness in business systems."
The errors occurred because KBR developed the proposal under a tight schedule, said company spokeswoman Heather Browne. The contract-review process, she said, worked as intended..............