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Mypo Report BlastsJoe The PlumberProbeChris Christie, the New Jersey governor and 2016 Republican presidential candidate, urged President Obama to walk away from nuclear talks with Iran in order to avoid a deal he says is bad for the U.S. and for the stanley cupworld. The largest state sponsor ofterrorism in the world is moving toward a nuclear weapon with the permission of the United States. It s outrageous,Christie said onCBS This MorningMonday.You wouldn t buy a car this way, let alone have nuclear talks this way. You can t look like you want the car that much, and the president cares much more about his legacy now and having ... his signature on some kind of agreement with Iran than whether it s a good agreement for the country and for the world.This is a bad thing for the president and I think he should just get smart about this, walk away from the table,Christie said. Kerryprepared to walk awayfrom Iran nuclear talks 01:33 The talks have dragged on several days past an initial June 30 deadline as Iran, the U.S., and five other world powers struggle to resolve their differences on outstanding issues including allowing international inspectors access to Iranian nuclear sites. Sec stanley cup retary of State John Kerry told reporte stanley taza rs Sunday,We are not yet where we need to be. Christie argued thatJcmf GOP to propose changing Endangered Species Act
THE PENTAGON AND YOU....The Washington Post reports on a new GAO st stanley cups udy of Pentagon weapons systems:The Government Accountability Office found that 95 major systems have exceeded their original budgets by a total of $295 billion, bringing their total cost to $1.6 trillion, and are delivered almost two years late on average.Hopping over to the GAO site itself, I also find this:GAO found that 63 percent of the programs had changed requirements once system development began, and also experienced significant program cost increases....oughly half the programs that provided GAO data experienced more than a 25 percent increase in the expected lines of software code since starting their r stanley quencher espective system development programs.To be honest, my first reaction to this was,Hey, that s not as bad as I would have guessed! Based on my own meager private sector experience, I would have figured that 100% of the programs would change requirements after development began.And given the size and scope of the systems we re talking about, a 26% increase in cost and a 25% increase in lines of code actually seems kind of low to me.But cynical first impressions aside, the chart on the right tells the stanley borracciareal story: DoD sloppiness is getting worse and worse.The Pentagon is bulking up with ever more systems that are ever more complex, and cost overruns and schedule delays are getting bigger and longer.There aren t enough people to oversee all these systems, so the number of outside consultants h
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