Air Force Promises Not To Buy Any More 10 THOUSAND Dollar Toilet Seat Covers

HOLY MOTHER OF RIDICULOUS SPENDING.

It was recently revealed the Air Force spent TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS A PIECE on each of three custom-made toilet seat covers.

Ummmmm…..Are the covers made of some kind of robotic material? Can they wrap around you and save your life in the case of a crash or attack?

Nah. They’re just regular old plastic toilet seat covers… that had been discontinued.

So they doled out 30 grand to have them “custom made.”

Yeeeeah. I have a distinct feeling that price tag was absolutely unnecessary…

According to Fox News:

The Air Force last week admitted to paying out about $10,000 apiece to replace toilet seat covers on a Vietnam-era cargo plan that is still being used, The Washington Post reported.

The toilet seat covers on the C-5 Galaxy is no longer in production so the government needed to purchase customized ones, the report said. The government purchased the covers three times and as recent as last year, the report said.

STAHP.

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, pushed for an investigation into the spending, ABC News reported. The call came after an interview with Will Roper, the assistant secretary of the Airforce for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, and DefenseOne.

I mean TEN GRAND, you guys! For a plastic toilet seat!

Grassely said government waste is not in itself new. During the President George H.W. Bush administration, oversight efforts uncovered soap dishes that cost $117 and pliers that cost nearly $1,000.

Those pliers better have been made of gold. Jeez Louise…

Roper told the website in May, “You’ll think, ‘There’s no way it costs that, No, it doesn’t, but you’re asking a company to produce it and they’re [busy] producing something else.”

SO you have SOMEONE ELSE make it. Or you come up with another solution. YOU DON’T DOLE OUT THE TEN GRAND. THAT’S INSANE.

Here’s the thing… they could have 3-D printed them for 300 bucks.

Military.com reported that Roper was making the case for 3D printing in the Air Force.

“We are not now, nor will we in the future buy that aircraft part at that price, because we can now do so more cheaply using 3-D printing,” a spokesman told the paper. “Using this new process allows us to make parts that are no longer in production and is driving major cost savings.”

The Air Force said it will now rely on 3-D printing that will lower the price tag to $300.

YEAH. Which means I’m gonna FLIP if the EVER dole out tens of thousands of dollars on  some crap they could have easily 3-D printed again.