Fifty years from now. an obscure academic from an obscure college will write an obscure paper about “The Total Waste, Fraud, Abuse, and Mismanagement of $4 Trillion in COVID-19 Relief Funds During the 2020 Pandemic.”
Three people will read it and immediately forget it. It will end up being filed away, never to be seen or heard of again.
That’s a shame for several reasons. First is accountability. The dozens and dozens of government managers responsible for wasting hundreds of billions of dollars or doing nothing while hundreds of billions more were stolen, misused, or flat-out lost will go unidentified. In many nations, such as Japan, this kind of incompetence is severely punished. In America, you get promoted.
Secondly, without learning the lessons from wasted pandemic spending, we’re certain to repeat the same mistakes, hire the same kinds of idiots and morons to disburse the money, and then frantically try to hide their incompetence to avoid responsibility.
A recent Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) report reveals some incredible examples of waste, fraud, and abuse at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) during the pandemic. What was FEMA doing issuing billions of aid during the non-disaster COVID-19 pandemic? I don’t think anyone’s gotten a satisfactory answer to that question. […]
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