{"id":230380,"date":"2023-07-10T10:34:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T02:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=230380"},"modified":"2023-07-10T10:34:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T02:34:23","slug":"the-pentagons-52000-trash-can-responsible-statecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=230380","title":{"rendered":"The Pentagon\u2019s $52,000 trash can &#8211; Responsible Statecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In 2020, the Pentagon paid Boeing over $200,000 for four of the trash cans, translating to roughly $51,606 per unit. In a 2021 contract, the company charged $36,640 each for 11 trash containers, resulting in a total cost of more than $400,000. The apparent overcharge cost taxpayers an extra $600,000 between the two contracts.<\/p>\n<p>In another case, Lockheed Martin hiked the price of an electrical conduit for the P-3 plane as much as 14 fold, costing the Pentagon an additional $133,000 between 2008 and 2015.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/responsiblestatecraft.org\/2023\/06\/20\/the-pentagons-52000-trash-can\/\">The Pentagon\u2019s $52,000 trash can &#8211; Responsible Statecraft<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2020, the Pentagon paid Boeing over $200,000 for four of the trash cans, translating to roughly $51,606 per unit. In a 2021 contract, the company charged $36,640 each for 11 trash containers, resulting in a total cost of more than $400,000. The apparent overcharge cost taxpayers an extra $600,000 between the two contracts. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230381,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230380\/revisions\/230381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}