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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: haqihana who wrote (259882)	5/31/2002 8:49:18 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

For anyone to try and lay all, or maybe any, of such a short fall to the Bush administration, is just peeing into the wind to get his boots wet. Cal it what it is. A lie and partisan smear.....

To: haqihana who wrote (259882)	5/31/2002 8:50:52 AM
From: willcousa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

It isn't unusual for government agencies to have trouble with their bookeeping. The IRS has had a big outage for decades now. The biggest problem seems to be that the employees don't take record keeping seriously.

To: haqihana who wrote (259882)	5/31/2002 10:21:03 AM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

No, it no doubt goes back 20 years, at least. A growing percentage. Not only does it reduce military and economic strength, it also increases the "moral hazard", where defense contractors, consultants, writers, politicians, foreign lobbyists and other thieves feel they have a green light to steal from the Treasury. It establishes a lax "who cares?" attitude for other departments and reduces public confidence in their government.