Monday, January 23, 2012
Government at Work - in Cook County, IL
Examples of government mismanagement abound.
And would you want to bet as to whether any politicians relatives made money on this?...
And would you want to bet as to whether any politicians relatives made money on this?...
Carol Marin and Don Moseley have this story at SunTimes.com:
"Project Shield was supposed to make citizens safer. But in the end, the $45-million Homeland Security program more resembled a disaster, wasting taxpayers’ dollars and failing to make a single citizen more secure.
The failed Cook County initiative was replete with equipment that failed to work, missing records and untrained first responders according to a report by the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
The report, to be released Monday but obtained by The Sun-Times and NBC5 News, found 'millions of tax dollars may have been wasted.'"
