Squat Wanker's gift: Wisconsin taxpayer money to his backers

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http://urbanmilwaukee.com/2013/01/10/the-rising-cost-of-states-outside-contractors/?utm_source=Urban+Milwaukee&utm_campaign=53796b8da3-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email

The Rising Cost of State’s Outside Contractors

By far the biggest user of outside agencies in fiscal 2012 was the Department of Health Services, at $182.4 million. That’s the highest it’s been in years, despite a DHS spokeswoman’s statement in July 2012 that the department was taking steps to reduce these expenditures.

In December 2011, the Legislative Audit Bureau issued a report faulting DHS’ “vendor oversight and contract monitoring.” It said the agency’s “increasing reliance on vendors may also potentially hamper its ability both to effectively provide guidance to the large number of contracted staff and to maintain adequate administrative oversight.”

The report urged DHS to “review existing contracted services to identify whether cost savings could be achieved by using state employees.”

Reverse Robin Hood: taking money designated to help the poor, and give it to your wealthy friends.

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1. Accounting

DHS can't account for hundreds of millions of dollars supposedly spent on vendors. The legislature isn't eager to get an accounting. The mainstream press won't investigate. There is something rotten in Wisconsin.

http://bdgrdemocracy.wordpress.com/2012/06/04/audit-shows-cost-misappropriation-lack-of-oversight-in-walker-dhs-privatization-push/

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2. The stench in Madison is easily detected here in the hinterlands, even over the fresh manure.