$$$ Millions Paid To KBR Mechanics For -43 MINUTES- A Month (Mother Jones)

[kpete]

KBR's Idle Hands in Iraq

The megacontractor's been making millions from mechanics who put in as little as 43 minutes a month. And as more GIs come home, the waste could get even worse.

Thu Mar. 25, 2010 4:30 AM PDT

It was just a single contract for a single job on a single base in Iraq. The Department of Defense agreed to pay the megacontractor KBR $5 million a year to repair tactical vehicles, from Humvees to big rigs, at Joint Base Balad, a large airfield and supply center north of Baghdad. Yet according to a new Pentagon report , what the military got was as many as 144 civilian mechanics, each doing as little as 43 minutes of work a month, with virtually no oversight. The report, issued March 3 by the DOD's inspector general, found that between late 2008 and mid-2009, KBR performed less than 7 percent of the work it was expected to do, but still got paid in full.



the rest:
http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/03/kbr-idle-hands-iraq-balad-contract-waste-pentagon-report-hearing?utm_source=twitterfeed

[Soylent Brice]

1. K&R

[Richard Steele]

2. Bidness as usual for the RW War Machine. K&R

[Tippy]

3. Republicans running amuck

Just think about how far that money would go to creating jobs here in our Country...Who would have thought Halliburton and KBR would steal from the American Tax payers. (not) to bad we don't have a Robin Hood on the side of the taxpayers...REGULATE...REGULATE...REGULATE...

[mod mom]

4. We're in control now and this needs to be addressed immediately!

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. By whom?

Which members of Congress do you think will do anything about this???

[Vinnie From Indy]

5. This is the reason we keep fighting these wars

America has gone mad!

The scale of greed boggles the mind.

[Tippy]

7. I'm dam sure this was the major reason Bush started the war.... n/t

[formercia]

8. They were smart enough to not bill for overtime.

That might have been scrutinized.