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Of course the government should seek a refund! If you bought a defective product, wouldn't you demand your money back? The government buys products with our money, and they waste far too much of it as it is with pork-barrel spending projects and mindless foreign wars of conquest.

If there is no accountability for defense contractors, there is no impetus for them to observe any kind of quality controls on their products, merely to crank out production in the fastest, cheapest, flimsiest means possible. This is the way they get the most money. Without the government seeking refunds for defective production, there is no mechanism in place for curbing exploitation and deliberate fraud.

Additionally, we are talking about defense contractors here. These are the people that make the vehicles and systems that our soldiers depend upon for survival. If one does not demand quality, lives may be needlessly lost because of it. So of course the government should demand a refund if it receives defective products from a defense contractor! Nobody should be paid for failing to produce what was agreed upon, especially not when lives may depend upon it.

Government waste is already a tremendous problem. A recent statistic I read from the General Accounting Office stated that the Social Security Administration spends 85 cents out of every dollar on administrative costs, and 15 cents out of every dollar in benefits payouts. This statistic should be reversed! The cost of a single Tomahawk Cruise Missile could buy a $50,000 house for every homeless veteran in Los Angeles. We already waste tremendous amounts of money through government inefficiency and poor purchasing priorities. That money comes directly out of our pockets as taxpayers. The last thing we need is defense contractors encouraged to get rich by providing inferior products, simply because nobody will ever hold them accountable.

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