Comments on: Joint hearing on NASA finances http://www.spacepolitics.com/2005/10/26/joint-hearing-on-nasa-finances/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=joint-hearing-on-nasa-finances Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Greg Kuperberg http://www.spacepolitics.com/2005/10/26/joint-hearing-on-nasa-finances/#comment-5848 Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:43:27 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=696#comment-5848 It isn’t just that O’Keefe didn’t fix NASA’s accounting. (It’s not clear to me exactly how it was broken, but I can believe that it was.) The reform that O’Keefe introduced, full-cost accounting, introduced a host of new financial irregularities.

It just goes to show you that managers with entirely the wrong priorities, for example counting beans instead of launching rockets, often also screw up the very things that they think are important.

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He got a better gig — President of Louisiana State University. It pays better, and LSU has way better looking cheerleaders than NASAA does.

]]> By: William Berger http://www.spacepolitics.com/2005/10/26/joint-hearing-on-nasa-finances/#comment-5846 Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:50:46 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=696#comment-5846 Wasn’t O’Keefe SENT to NASA to fix its financial system? It is still broken?

What did O’Keefe accomplish, anyway?

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