Demagogue

Republicans love to bitch about government waste, but it doesn't seem to bother them all that much when the source of that waste is the military:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon has done little to recover nearly $900,000 mistakenly paid to 75 Army reservists who have not reported for duty since late 2001, congressional investigators said in a report Monday.

Less than two dozen have either surrendered or been arrested.

The report by the General Accounting Office details ongoing problems with a military payroll system consistently slammed as convoluted and error-prone -- with repeated instances of troops either being overpaid or underpaid despite months spent trying to straighten things out.

Now for the icing on the cake:

The GAO said the number of improper payments and the amount of money involved is probably significantly understated.