Our tax dollars at work - the State Department
From
FOX News:
EXCLUSIVE: State Department oversight of climate change spending abroad is a mess, watchdog reports
Inadequate oversight, lax bookkeeping, sloppy paperwork, haphazard performance agreements and missing financial documentation have plagued U.S. State Department spending of tens of millions of dollars to combat climate change, according to a report by State�s internal financial watchdog � and the problem could be much, much bigger than that.
The audit report, issued last month by the State Department�s Office of the Inspector General (OIG), casts an unflattering spotlight on a relatively obscure branch of the State Department that supervises climate change spending, and depicts it as over-extended in its responsibilities, unstaffed in critical monitoring posts, and more concerned with spending money than in monitoring its effectiveness.
I know I used the 'tip of the iceberg' analogy earlier today but it qualifies here too.
A bit more:
According to a State Department website, the U.S. has contributed some $5.1 billion in climate change funding to developing countries in 2010 and 2011 alone, with additional money still pouring forth in 2012.
Yikes!
A big tip 'o the hat to Anthony at
Watts Up With That for the link.
Posted by DaveH at August 15, 2012 2:15 PM