Per the article:
The Pentagon estimates it could cost $15 million to $20 million a year to create all the offices required by the law.I wonder if a Federal Court would allow me to argue this over the Affordable Healthcare Act?
In addition, Pentagon officials apparently disagree with the tactics the law recommended, preferring to use advertising and digital outreach efforts to educa[t]e overseas soldiers rather than creating the voting assistance offices.
I wonder when else the Pentagon has used this approach? I don't know of any cases, but now I am curious. The DoD has NEVER completed an audit and claims to be several years away, as it has claimed in the past.
This reflects directly, and poorly, on SecDef Leon Panetta.
Regards — Cliff
2 comments:
SECDEF gets the bang, yet buget boy blunder gets a pass? Paul Ryan voted for the Budget Control Act of 2011. With it came the dreaded sequestration.
Leave it to you tax and spend classic liberals to drive up the cost of big gubmint!
To me the voting issue, while disappointing, is not critical. Those who want to vote will find a way.
What I want to know is DoD's formula for picking and choosing which laws to enforce and which not to. This didn't seem to be much of a problem 20 years ago, but maybe now it is. Was there a "signing statement" involved. $20 million doesn't seem like a lot of money, considering Congress mandated this. Did they not provide the money? Didn't we have this "spend the money" fight back when Nixon was President. If Conress passes it, the Presudent must spend it,
Congress needs to ensure an audit of DoD.
As our mutual friend, Auditor Bill Taupier, tells the story of his first job (early sixties, I presume) he was within a dime and after two additional weeks of searching offered to donate a dime to square it up. His boss told him that it might be a dime discrepency, but it also might be a million dollar error.
Very disappointing.
And, yes, I am a Classic Liberal, just like Baroness Thatcher. The rest are posers.
Regards — Cliff
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