Stealing It

Call me crazy if you want - hell, everybody else does - but I think maybe taking care of all the shit we've been neglecting the last 20 years or so is a little higher priority than 45*'s Horizontal Phallus Project down on the Mexico border.

CNBC:

When 2nd Lt. Lance Konzen got his first military assignment, the Air Force recommended he and his wife Megan Konzen move into housing right on his base at Laughlin Air Force Base in Del Rio, Texas, to help them adjust to military life.

But the Konzens didn't know their new home had mold growing in the vents, which gave Megan respiratory problems and led to several emergency room visits, she said. The family said the private company managing their home didn't provide preventative maintenance or clean the home thoroughly once mold was discovered.

The Konzens are one of several families highlighted in a report from the Military Family Advisory Network published Wednesday, which found that military families living in on-base housing face dangerous conditions including mold, vermin and poor water quality.

The military uses private companies to provide and maintain on-base housing for families, but the report shows that substandard living conditions are widespread.

"Private companies" - the supremely stupid notion that outsourcing is always better than letting Da Gubmint do it themselves. The only thing worse than government waste fraud and abuse is private sector waste fraud and abuse. 

It's all at taxpayer expense, and privatizing this shit costs us more.