Going, Going, Ron
The LA Times reports:
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is unable to find or account for tens of thousands of valuable mementos of Reagan's White House years because a "near universal" security breakdown left the artifacts vulnerable to pilfering by insiders, an audit by the National Archives inspector general has concluded.
I'll pass on the easy joke--how fitting the Reagan Library can't remember where they put things--and point this out instead: you can lead a Republican to a library but you can't make him be honest. I mean, they're stealing from the country (the article states: "most gifts to presidents become property of the American people") and from their greatest hero's legacy. Plus you have to assume the pilferers, as they get called in the article, aren't doing it because they just have to have one of the billion Western style belt buckles the Gipper got in his years in office. They're doing it to sell the stuff. If you ever want to know where's the line when capitalism crosses over into greed, just look about 50 paces behind a rightwinger.
The article goes on to say:
The audit found that the Reagan library was unable to properly account for more than 80,000 artifacts out of its collection of some 100,000 such items, and "may have experienced loss or pilferage the scope of which will likely never be known."
It blamed the problem on lack of supervision, concluding that "adequate management controls were neither implemented nor properly monitored."
Gee, you'd think the people in charge of the Reagan Library where the same people in charge of Iraq.
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is unable to find or account for tens of thousands of valuable mementos of Reagan's White House years because a "near universal" security breakdown left the artifacts vulnerable to pilfering by insiders, an audit by the National Archives inspector general has concluded.
I'll pass on the easy joke--how fitting the Reagan Library can't remember where they put things--and point this out instead: you can lead a Republican to a library but you can't make him be honest. I mean, they're stealing from the country (the article states: "most gifts to presidents become property of the American people") and from their greatest hero's legacy. Plus you have to assume the pilferers, as they get called in the article, aren't doing it because they just have to have one of the billion Western style belt buckles the Gipper got in his years in office. They're doing it to sell the stuff. If you ever want to know where's the line when capitalism crosses over into greed, just look about 50 paces behind a rightwinger.
The article goes on to say:
The audit found that the Reagan library was unable to properly account for more than 80,000 artifacts out of its collection of some 100,000 such items, and "may have experienced loss or pilferage the scope of which will likely never be known."
It blamed the problem on lack of supervision, concluding that "adequate management controls were neither implemented nor properly monitored."
Gee, you'd think the people in charge of the Reagan Library where the same people in charge of Iraq.
Labels: I don't know what scruples are but if you've got 'em it's a sure bet they belong to somebody else
posted by George at 4:01 PM
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