While I’ve been tied up with elections here and abroad as well as covering the Biden administration pumping unspent Inflation Reduction Act bucks out the door to any random tramp that flashes a Green thong at them…
…Yesterday, the Department of Energy’s Inspector General sent a letter to the Under Secretary of Energy for Infrastructure that basically laid a whuppin’ on the whole spend-a-palooza.
KNOCK IT OFF WITH THE HANDOUTS
The Federal Government prohibits conflicts of interest to safeguard the taxpayers against selfdealing, collusion, and fraud by Government officials and Government contractors. In the private sector, each party has a “baked in” economic incentive to watch, track, and account for its own dollars. That economic incentive does not exist in the public sector, where Federal dollars are more likely to be treated as “monopoly…
