Danish ministry of defence withholding vital information

The Danish Bilderberg Newspaper Politiken runs a story today on The Danish ministry of defence being accused of withholding vital information regarding the devastated economy of the National Defence. Last Tuesday The National Defence made their new savings-plans public. The critique follows the draft for cuts in the budget, that will go down in history.

Despite rumours about the opposite, the politic parties behind the plan, has NOT received an analysis of why the expenses for IT-consultants, travelling and restoration of buildings etc. has risen far beyond expectations.

A secret note, delivered in May 2009, to the parties behind the agreement, promised to explain the excessive consumption. This secret note states that the analysis would be ready during the fall of 2009, but still nothing for the politicians, creating much concern. Some-things rotten in the state of Denmark, and people are beginning to wake up and at least wanting to know what smells so bad.

"It is mostly disturbing! When an analysis has a deadline, it must be respected. We want a good explanation."

Søren Espersen

Spokesman on foreign policy from the Danish Nationalistic party

"We need to ad up the scores. We can´t tolerate the fact that we haven´t seen anything yet, it is simply unbearable. Its another example of what we have been seeing all along, the IT solutions for economy handling has left much to be desired."

John Dyrby Paulsen

Spokesman on defence from the Socialist party
 

When asked about the issue, the defence department says, that the promised analysis was done a long time ago and sent to the ministry of defence. They just seem to have been stranded there.

So the ball rolls over in the court of the minister of defence Gitte Lillelund Bech (Venstre). Sadly it has not been possible to get a word from the minister on why the analysis is still being withheld. This has started speculation on what is being hidden this time. Maybe the fact that SAP has them by the balls, maybe the fact that the respect for the system in general is lacking. "Someone else will pay" seems to be the attitude we encounter, when talking about public budgets in Denmark.

It´s like this:

I give you a bag of money and tell you to spend it all, i don´t care on what! If you are a good boy, do as your told and spend them all, then you will get equally amounts of money next year. Maybe even more... But if you FAIL!!! Then we will all be suffering because you send a signal that we can manage for less. This mentality is very unhealthy for the economy, but then again... what can you expect from a generation of super individualists... The ME generation!

People has to start taking individual responsibility for their actions for this vicious circle to be broken. Starting with the people on the top!

PrisonPlanet.dk notes that the implementation of a tailored SAP R/3 solution under the name of DeMars has been a problem for since the implementation in 1999. One of the problems is that DeMars complicated to use, that demands schooling of the staff. But since the workload has been outsourced to temp-agencies such as Adecco, the schooling is
somewhere close to impossible.

In 2005 the state-accountant made a public announcement that "The defence department acquiring the DeMars system has shown to be satisfactory". This is despite costs were estimated to be 700 mill DKR (140 mill $), but already in 2001 the budget was adjusted to well over a Billion DKR(200 mill $).

This seems to be getting a bad habit in Denmark when spending the taxpayers money. This is the Danish system in a nutshell. Garbage in = Garbage out!

Tjeck out this example from Afghanistan on Business.dk(in Danish only).
Or se more from the state-accountant(In Danish only)

The truth will set Gitte Lillelund free to...