From: Rick v100 (rickv100@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Aug 24 2005 - 06:31:18 PDT
Sounds like an inflated report to justify a new
computer system requiring more buracracy and a never
ending black hole for money on some politicans list of
paybacks to donors.
Rick
--- m35products <m35prod@optonline.net> wrote:
> The vehicles and materiel that is distributed via
> the FEPP does not need to
> accounted for in the sense that we civilians
> understand. There is a time
> limit for vehicles, and one for office equipment,
> etc, after which the stuff
> may be sold without a back-accounting to the agency
> that issued it. I
> believe that with vehicles it is 18 months in NY
> State.
>
> Many highway departments and fire departments have
> received trucks, used
> them, and sold them at a "profit" after the
> statutory time period has
> elapsed. It is common, and not illegal. I have a
> pipeline delivery truck
> that is essentially residue. (Some a$$holes stripped
> all the unique parts
> off, because they were "useless for a fire-fighting
> application".) It has a
> tree growing through it. Most of the edible parts
> have been removed, and if
> I were asked to justify my ownership, I would not be
> able to offer any
> reasonable chain of title. I doubt if it is on any
> list of "missing" trucks.
>
> APBloom
> www.M35products.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron" <rojoha@adelphia.net>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List"
> <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 8:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [MV] Missing vehicles
>
>
> > "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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