There's a fascinating article in today's Times (the Saturday paper, of course, the least-read edition of the week -- that way the Times can claim they covered the story while ensuring that as few people as possible actually read it). The story describes the utter failure of the Bush administration to overhaul the Coast Guard's ships in a time of war. Add to this the failure of Bushco to build a working police academy in Iraq (how many of us see that rain of feces as a strikingly elegant metaphor for the entire six years of Dumbya's misrule), to Haliburton/Blackwater's profit shenanigans, and on and on and on.
My question -- and I sure this is naive at best -- is, why can't we demand our money back? Seriously. If any of us bought a car as badly built as the Iraq war, we would take it back and demand our money back. If necessary, we would sue.
How can we, how can our elected, so-called, "representatives" allow this to happen? Why can't we sue the fuckers?
Why is it always this way? A company comes along and blatantly steals from America and, when the story breaks, there is much sound and fury, gavel banging in congressional committees, a thunder of "serious people" harrumphing and a-hemming, headlines in the papers, bloviators bloviating and, when the dust settles, the scumbags get to keep the money. Then everyone involved swears it will never happen again, but it does, again and again and again.
So how, in God's name and for the sake of America do we stop this? How do we get our billions back?
Anybody? Beuller? Beuller?