are they getting the least expensive contractors with proper experience or hiring someone's company with a special interest, for example?

also who is approving things like a $640 toilet seat, $7,600 coffee maker, and $435 hammer, $37 screws, the McDonnell Douglas nut for the Navy at $2,043 each. also from the The Pentagon Catalogn $387 flat washer, a $469 wrench, a $214 flashlight, a $437 tape measure, a $2,228 monkey wrench, a $748 pair of duckbill pliers, a $74,165 aluminum ladder, a $659 ashtray and a $240- million airplane.

just mind boggling