I can't understand this whole concept here.
You take the coast guard, Mr. Chairman. There are multi-million-dollar vessels they can't fix properly because they don't have a $50 manual on board to follow the instructions on how to repair it. They cause millions of dollars in damage rather than fixing the ship.
It seems there's a lackadaisical attitude of it being taxpayers' property and money and they're just going through the motions. Not much is getting done. I don't want to castigate all public servants, because I do know many of them provide yeoman service to the country. But it does seem that either at the management level or the lower management level, or with somebody coming up with a new logic model that defies any logic whatsoever, that these things just seem to fall through the cracks. They're so obvious—just so obvious—Mr. Chairman, that anybody can see there is a problem. And even when we point that out--years ago at the public accounts committee--nothing gets done. We have to change that.
Thank you.