[Newsbot]

Title: Top general fights to cut the fat in the Forces
Category: Military
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2011-02-26 18:22:47
Canadian

[PENATRATOR]

Start shit canning the fucking civies that RULE the DND world, it's fucking pathetic actually

[ShepherdsDog]

$1:

His heaviest opposition is coming from the bureaucrats he is facing off against.

Culling the lampreys may be the hardest battle he has ever faced. The same thing can be said about any government department. Look at school divisions. A huge chunk of the funds are siphoned off by assistants to and assistants to assistants of, rather than going to programs for students.

[Lemmy]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Culling the lampreys may be the hardest battle he has ever faced. The same thing can be said about any government department. Look at school divisions. A huge chunk of the funds are siphoned off by assistants to and assistants to assistants of, rather than going to programs for students.

You have no idea how bad it is in education, at least in Ontario. School board finances are as crooked as a dog's hind leg. Siphoning and kickback schemes that would embarrass Tony Soprano are the norm.

[ShepherdsDog]

I think i have a fair idea, seeing as I taught for a few years in Canada(BC and Manitoba).

[Freakinoldguy]

Geez General does this mean that the Acting Sub Lieutenants who are posted to Ottawa may actually have to go back to their units/schools/ships and learn their freakin trade rather than rely on their godfathers, old boy's networks to get ahead?

Say it ain't so.

Who's gonna make coffee for the Lieutenants?

I wish him luck, but my guess is he'll last about a year and then he'll be quietly retired like so many others before him who rocked that big, shiney, bloated, boat that's NDHQ.

[Lemmy]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

I think i have a fair idea, seeing as I taught for a few years in Canada(BC and Manitoba).

Maybe, but my experience is that teachers have pretty much no clue whatsoever about Board finances. Why would they? It's hidden from them and they have no interest in it, for the most part, anyway. When the Board members get kickbacks on, say, a deal for photocopiers in the Board, the teachers have no idea how that shakes down. All they know is when they show up to work on the first day of the school year they have to learn how to work the new copier.

[Heavy_Metal]

PENATRATOR PENATRATOR:

Start shit canning the fucking civies that RULE the DND world, it's fucking pathetic actually

well said

[Pseudonym]

Hell yes - These are the kind of military spending cuts we can all get behind.

[Kitsune_H]

When I read the title, I thought they meant that they were having problems with overweight officers. Good to see it's a whole different issue!
But beating the system, from within the system... I wish the general luck, he's gonna need it.

[EyeBrock]

I just read Hillier's book (A Soldier first). He doesn't mince words about the rich and powerful civil servants that run the DND.