From: Ron (rojoha@adelphia.net)
Date: Wed Aug 24 2005 - 05:47:45 PDT
"30.000 STATE vehicles missing" sounds like a problem with US Government
surplus vehicles given to states for use with the proviso that they must be
returned at the end of service or 'accounted' for when sold.
'Hey Chief, what about that PoS army truck out back we got for parts for
those two old brush trucks we got rid of a couple of years ago? Can we dump
it? We got it for free and nobody asked about it in 5 years. There's a guy
who asked if it was for sale and it's just sitting there and we could use a
new grill for the station...."
The article doesn't say when the books were LAST balanced ...
Yep, pretty good possibility that some of the missing vehicles are owned
by list members. Get a title when you bought yours from the town yard?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Employee at MILVEHCO" <milveh@dslextreme.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: 24 August, 2005 00:22
Subject: Re: [MV] Missing vehicles
> Don't believe it Sonny? I know, my reaction too, however it's actually
> worse, this was for just ONE state. If you read "Government Waste a-z",
> it has some stuff that would make your hair fall out. Example: Federal
> government fritters away at least $375 billion annually on questionable
> programs and projects, such as the National Swine Research Center ($13
> million), a study on mail-delivery times ($23 million), and the Robert J.
> Dole Institute at the University of Kansas ($6 million). Pentagon
> recently spent $5 million to build a third golf course at Andrews Air
> Force Base, just outside the District of Columbia....
>
> Anyway back to missing vehicles, latest count says 30,000 in the newspaper
> today...check this out...what a way to run a government...
>
> "30,000 state vehicles "missing"
>
> Daviid M. Drucker
> Staff Writer - Sacramento Bee
>
> SACRAMENTO - California's fleet of state-owned vehicles swelled to 70,000
> last year, but officials in an aggressive new asset-management push have
> so far been able to pinpoint only about 40,000 of them."
> To reach a human, contact <ack@mil-veh.org>
>
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