Democratic Underground Latest Greatest Lobby Journals Search Options Help Login
Google

Paper-Shredding Cost Rises 600% Under Bush Administration

Printer-friendly format Printer-friendly format
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend
Printer-friendly format Bookmark this thread		 This topic is archived.
Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (1/22-2007 thru 12/14/2010) Donate to DU
 
DeSwiss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 12:50 AM
Original message
Paper-Shredding Cost Rises 600% Under Bush Administration
600 Percent

Think Progress
December 14, 2007

The http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2007/12/bush-secret-shredding-soars.php">cost of government paper-shredding has increased since President Bush took office. USASpending tracked how the government spent $452,807 on contracts for paper-shredding services in 2000, only to see that number rise astronomically to http://www.usaspending.gov/fpds/fpds.php?reptype=a&database=fpds&mod_agency=&mod_fund_agency=&PIID=&psc_cat=&psc_sub=R614&contractor_type=&descriptionOfContractRequirement=&compete_cat=&dollar_tot=&fiscal_year=&first_year_range=&last_year_range=&detail=-1&datype=T&email=">over $2.9 million in 2006.



More: http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/14/600-2/


- The first thing to go of course was the Constitution.....
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 12:51 AM
Response to Original message
1. $%&^ @*. nt
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DeSwiss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 12:54 AM
Response to Reply #1
2. You said it sister....
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 12:57 AM
Response to Reply #2
4. My overload is overloaded. nt
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Zorra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 12:55 AM
Response to Original message
3. Seriously? Not a joke?
I'm shocked.

Not.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DeSwiss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 12:59 AM
Response to Reply #3
5. Apparently they were operating under the policy....
...of shredding any document they couldn't understand.

Which in retrospect surprises me that the cost isn't much higher....
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
HCE SuiGeneris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 01:05 AM
Response to Original message
6. That would be "your tax dollars at work"
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DeSwiss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 03:49 AM
Response to Reply #6
11. Another fine example....
...that our children is learning. But no one thought they'd actually be asked to spell.

- What's worse about the guys in that pic, is that they wrote it down on the street just the way their boss spelled it....
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 01:08 AM
Response to Original message
7. This needs to be read by lots of people - recommend! nt
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DeSwiss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 03:40 AM
Response to Reply #7
10. Cheney's the one who seems to actually need trucks.....
....to come to his house and shred all of his stuff. Maybe even a few bodies hauled away in the mix. How would we know? We know he shoots people and caged animals. And there have been deer found http://wonkette.com/politics/dick-cheney/cheneys-victim-still-rots-on-observatory-grounds-222867.php">suspiciously dead around the Navel Observatory. Shotgun wounds. Remind you of anyone?

Shreddin' With Dick

Wonkette.com
Oct 30 2006



Spotted on 10/19, by an eagle-eyed Wonkette reader: The Mid-Atlantic Shredding Services truck making its way up to the Cheney compound at the Naval Observatory.

Fun fact: http://www.sdbmagazine.com/news/news.asp?ID=3608&SubCatID=18&CatID=6">Mid-Atlantic Shredding Services has been contracted by the Secret Service for our Executive Branch’s record-not-keeping needs.

The present contractor providing Pickup & Destruction of Sensitive Waste Material services is Mid Atlantic Shredding Services and the current rate is $0.095 cents per lbs.

You better get crackin’, Dick — that evidence won’t destroy itself!

http://wonkette.com/politics/dick-cheney/shreddin-with-dick-211028.php">link


- Guess that "man-sized" safe of his should be empty by now....
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
silverojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 02:29 AM
Response to Original message
8. K&R
And it's not the least bit surprising. :grr:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Greyskye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 02:37 AM
Response to Original message
9. $3 million worth of shredded paper

I think I'm gonna :puke:
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 04:00 AM
Response to Original message
12. right at the time Bush implemented a torture program
the shredding increased (2002)

Interesting
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DeSwiss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 04:19 AM
Response to Reply #12
13. Good catch.
We defintely know some tapes were destroyed, by their own admission. Although whether they were shredded or not remains to be seen.

They were most likely burned. And the ashes buried at-sea...
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 04:37 AM
Response to Reply #13
14. I was thinking of document, faxes, memos, and directives
They made videos...chances are they had no qualms about putting stuff in writing.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 09:24 AM
Response to Original message
15. un-fucking-believable
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
riverdeep Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 10:35 AM
Response to Original message
16. kick
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
riverdeep Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 10:48 AM
Response to Original message
17. How long before this scenario?
Newsreader: This just in, Bush caught on videotape chopping heads off of infants and Cheney having sex with the corpses.

Nation: Sigh. When's American Idol coming on?

Or are we already there? A nation that can turn it's back on invading another nation with untold suffering and rewarding that dimwit with another four years, we're there.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
countingbluecars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-17-07 10:55 AM
Response to Original message
18. And what they don't shred,
they burn?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/20/AR2006102001641.html
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon May 06th 2024, 08:29 AM
Response to Original message
Advertisements [?]
 Top

Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (1/22-2007 thru 12/14/2010) Donate to DU

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators

Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.

Home  |  Discussion Forums  |  Journals |  Store  |  Donate

About DU  |  Contact Us  |  Privacy Policy

Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.

© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC