your tax dollars at work, or not

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/06/AR2011030603633.html?wpisrc=nl_cuzhead

I believe this to be fairly representative of my experiences with government in recent years.  I will point out that the people in charge were not "ousted", they retired, when they chose to.  No one has been punished for this, Nor will they be.  The people in charge STILL don't have a handle as to what is going on and how to fix it, other than throwing buckets of money at the problem (and contractors).  Simple record keeping systems seem beyond the capacity of the military to even understand, much less purchase and implement.  Even twenty years ago, we folks working at the record store could have run circles around these clowns in terms of inventory management, invoices, dating, cross-referencing, etc.  It is unfortunate that, for all of the official propaganda, the military views Arlington as nothing more than a meat locker, to be ignored except for awarding the occasional million dollar contract to some Beltway Bandit to do nothing with.  This really steams me.  The army has done nothing but spend money on paid liars to try and cover up, stonewall, and spin away this story since it was reported on.  Absolutely disgraceful, and absolutely typical of what this town is becoming.