Who's Work Ethic Is In Question?

Over and over in both the immigration debate and the Katrina debacle I have heard snide comments made about lazy people not wanting to work, wanting something for nothing. Yet when the government awards companies for bad jobs we've, as a whole, been mute. Halliburton has been overpaid to the tune of millions of dollars and not one cent, to my knowledge, has been requested repaid. No so with the victims of Katrina. Those that might have received, by no fault of their own, duplicate checks have been asked to repay that money.

The pentagon now has a new policy, one that immediately, imo, shows the corruption of a nepotistic system. They will no longer give bonuses for bad jobs.

Yes, for bad jobs.

Immediately my question becomes, why were they EVER rewarding bad work?
Please, before the next person bashes my senator for bringing money home for a road or dam, explain to me why you aren't jumping on this with both feet.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...6041001310.html

The Pentagon is toughening up its policy of awarding bonuses to defense contractors. From now on, they will have to do at least a satisfactory job to qualify for the extra money.

The new policy, detailed in two March 21 Federal Register notices and in a March 29 memo from James I. Finley, the Pentagon's No. 2 procurement official, is a response to a Government Accountability Office study last year that found that some payments to defense contractors were, well, indefensible.

In its study of 93 contracts, the GAO found that the Defense Department paid out $8 billion in special award and incentive fees, often without regard to performance. In many cases the projects were behind schedule, over budget and experiencing significant technical problems