Thursday, October 8, 2009

Ex-Staffers Winning Defense Panel Pork, Study Finds

In the coming year's military spending bill, members of a House panel continue to steer lucrative defense contracts to companies represented by their former staffers, who in turn steer generous campaign donations to those lawmakers, a new analysis has found. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/07/AR2009100704099.html

With all the talk of ending business as usual last year, I guess its still business as usual just a different party in power. Too bad it’s the troops and the taxpayers that pay!

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