And these people want to run what's left of our free-market economy?

Two of Hillary Clinton's State Department minions give a tiny (and recently in bankruptcy) "minority-owned company" a large no-bid contract for expensive crystal stemware.  Strangely enough, that company doesn't even make glasses and therefore outsources the work to Sweden, and the diplomats are now disingenuously "blaming US firms for failing to compete" for the work.

Well, how are legitimate American stemware companies such as Steuben supposed to competitively bid for a job that wasn't opened up for general bidding in the first place?

Would it surprise anyone to find out that the high-level State Department geniuses behind this scheme are big-time Obama donors who made offering a minority business a lucrative contract, regardless of whether or not the company could fulfill the work order, the overriding priority in the process?:

"'These two [{Randolph} Bennett and {Tandra} Jones] went down to the small-business office and insisted that we have an 8(a) company -- have this company SDI do our contract,' the source said.

'They [SDI] don't know how to make glass. The glassware is being made in Sweden.'"

...

"Records show Bennett gave $1,000 to Barack Obama's presidential campaign, $2,000 to the Obama Victory Fund and $2,300 to the Democratic National Committee for the inauguration. 

According to the source, Bennett and Jones and their superiors steered the contract to SDI even after agency officials and at least one competitor complained it was a taxpayer rip-off." 

The end result of this total farce?

"As The Post exclusively revealed this week, the feds have yet to receive a single glass after paying $800,000 so far."

Keep in mind that the "feds" didn't utterly waste nearly a million dollars of their money to date on "$117,000 for a "project manager," $63,000 for a "software engineer" and $44,000 for "warehouse housing.". 

Those funds, never to be seen again, were ours, ripped from our pockets on pain of imprisonment. 

But these clowns know more about running health care than doctors, hospitals and insurance companies, and now they're going to use this exact kind of ace financial acumen to clean up Wall Street.

Yippee.