Comments on: Companies Defraud Government For Millions

Businesses Falsely Claim Head Offices In Poor Areas To Win Huge "HUBZone" Contracts

[caribel-2009]

My son and I recently had reason to visit our designated Social Security Office re my son''s Social Security card. This followed trying to take care of the matter via overnight deliveries of various, certified documents without success. I called and spoke to a supervisor, who told me that the office was short staffed and in one instance the death of a key employee in the unit did not result in filling the empty position because of hiring freezes.

We took a number and waited our turn. When finally reached, we were waited on by an extremely rude lady. She was about to enter our request wrongly and I had to ask her to revisit the requested change before she got it right. Something so vital as our Social Security information should not be entrusted to a lack of or inept federal workers. Yes, we need to fund our federal offices with tax revenues. We could more aptly do that if we could stop spending 100 billion dollars every month in Iraq. Why are we helping some other country instead of helping ourselves? The situation has grown ridiculous!

[mcdonaj3]

Just another well-intentioned but mis-guided program. With huge deficits already, the Feds are constantly finding new ways to give our tax dollar away. I find it offensive to award Federal contracts based on being a minority business or where the business is based. Contracts should be awarded on merit and go to the lowest bid. Congress should not create programs unless the cost of the program includes adequate auditing for compliance. Anyone want bigger government?

[bm6005]

A few summary executions of the guilty parties might work here. Just like in China when they find thieving gov''t and business officials!!

[mytoosense]

"Companies Defraud Government For Millions"
Chump-Change

Halliburton defrauded the taxpayer out of $3000 Million dollars ($3 billion) through undelivered goods and services in Iraq.

[omega39-2009]

Those firms, providing services such as engineering and information technology, were awarded $105 million in preferential contracts in 2006-2007 from the Pentagon, Veterans Affairs and Health and Human Services - based at least in part on their HUBZone status

And most likely, their "workers" were located in India.

[bogusbones]

any program initiated without proper enforcement and oversight will attract profiteers. this administration has, through "tax cuts", not allowed for the key element of proper enforcement in our laws thus opening to doors to unscrupulous activity. more political scandal for an already scandal ridden chapter in american history.

[ramos937]

I do have an extensive knowledge about the SBA HUB program. The fatal flaw in the program is lack of resources. District Officers are unable to make field visits because of a lack of funds. A District Office can cover hundreds of miles and many counties. To travel to a HUB applicant''s place of business to assure compliance requires the SBA Officer to get into his car and travel there and back. Sometimes he/she have to stay somewhere overnight because of the distance involved. No Officer will incur the related expense unless he/she is authorized expense reimbursement. This is not being done anymore.

[ov442]

People SHOULD pay attention to this because its our nation thats being frauded and the people of this nation deserve justice.
I find it amazing that people shut their eyes and ears when their party is the source of all crime and immorality, and try to diverge attention from scrutiny thats SUPPOSED to be there, but as in all aspects of the Bush administration, more regulatory and oversight has gone out the window and more taxpayer money that essentially is more Corporate "Entitlement" payments or Corporate Welfare more appropriately.

Republicans always Whine and Complain about Medicare and social security, when those two entities actually help more people in need, more elderly, more disabled, more humanity, and more efficiently and less costly than any Private enterprise thats ever existed, and of course helping people in need is a Christian value. Yet, they do everything they can to destroy the programs, criticize them, cut fundin, cut payments, cut benefits, cut raises from inflation, and divert its funds to their pet projects and take away the Government''s Policing abilities to keep their cronies and colleagues from frauding the government, stealing the resources, and committing crime after crime against the people for personal wealth and Greed.
This is the Republican party at its typical mindset and behavior, and Results.
We''ve seen the bloated waste, fraud, mismanagement, and horrible results from theft all the way to Dead US citizens.

[txlakeside]

The "Less Goverment oversite" crowd eat crow again. Opps, make that eat caviar again! The next time some redneck, conservative a..hole starts touting the "Less Goverment oversite" propaganda remind them of the current Banking crisis, the fraud in the Financial Sector, fraud on Wall Street, fraud in the War Contracts, fraud and stupidity in FEMA, Fraud in the SBA and then slap them in the face!

The crooked Repubs are about to be flushed from the Whitehouse!

Pay attention to the story when the fear mongers bring up 9-11 or terrorists! That is the real story as they love to us fear to distract you from the truth! Any idiot that mentions 9-11 as a smoke screen and uses fear as a tool of distraction needs their dumb as dirt, redneck a.. whipped!

[coco0331]

Mostly Republicans I''m sure.