Pentagon buries evidence of $125 billion in bureaucratic waste

hiding cia spending is standard, because making it public, would allow adversaries to interpolate how much is being spent against them

 

Then repost it in a way it can be read. I will answer. Maybe after I get back from the store, but I will answer.
And no I can't understand it this way.

 

"So when individual administrator Captain Snuffy in the 991st Finance Company in BFE(a department) pulls him self up by his bootstraps and unf***s the problems with his unit's finance systems but now he can't even communicate with Battalion's systems, let alone Brigade, or Big Army, what exactly has been accomplished?"

Better?

 

Sure ... they have to bring and pay what is demanded, no objection form my side!
But as I wrote in other threads about general topic, the US defense budget includes so much things which have nothing to do with NATO, the picture looks quite other as what these BS statistics always want to make people believe and which is backing Trumps demands.
And these wasted 125 billion USD here are then only backing the issue, that Trumps demand is only BS and has to be thrown into junk box.... and so a new thread is also not necessary.

 

The waste at the pentagon is huge. When I was AD USAF, our squadron had a budget. If we didn't spend every penny, we didn't get as much + a % increase for the next year. Our squadron pinched pennies all year and late Summer into early Fall, they spent like drunken sailors. Our spare parts supply was topped off and we usually bought new trucks at that time if needed. They always topped it off with a huge keg party with a live band in our main hangar for the whole squadron and their families. There was no incentive to save tax dollars and so we didn't. Every unit in the military operated like that. My guess is that they still do.

 

It's just the same with the MoD here. They seem to get a kick out of spending as much money as they can - I suspect it's because they can then justify a bigger departmental allowance year after year; central government just assumes that if they've run out of money at the end of the fiscal year then they 'obviously' need more. It's how the political/bureaucratic mind works.

 

You mean...spent to arm them, or spent to arm curtain groups of militant extremists as a buffer against them. That's what we spend money on.

And nah, the CIA needs to be held accountable too. The DOD's first step to cutting waste should be to stop injecting patriotism for profit, by stopping injecting their patriotic idiocy into sports entertainment.

I hope Trump does something about this. I doubt he will. We'll see.

 

so when exactly was the last time we armed muslim extremists and it worked out well for us ? Bush destablized the middle east with the removal of Saddam. Obama came in said I will do you one better and now Syria and Libya are a mess. Egypt and Turkey are barely hanging in there. Iran is developing nukes, and the Guantanamo terrorists are all free and back in business doing what they love, killing Christians and other Muslims

 

It's a complete non sequitur post.
Here's the post he was supposedly answering, and the reason he posted nonsensical garbage in reply.;

Now go back and read the two and tell me that it makes sense as a reply.

 

Our wasted money does not excuse other nations shirking of their duty.

 

I never said arming Jihadists was a good idea. It was -always- a terrible idea. Carter started this mess, Reagan seriously ramped it up, and everyone else just continued it. Every single president since Carter is at fault for this.

 

that nation building crap always seems to bite us on the ass. Only ones who make out is the military industrial complex. That is why Trump upsets the establishment GOP as much as he does the Democrats. Your post pretty much nails it

 

No, you hire an outside contractor to do your payroll for a while during the installation process.
What's wrong with people these days?

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Uh oh, there's that institutional boogy man again standing in the way of every good thing!
Better not try to go against the boogy man.

 

No ... it does not excuse of course and did not tell! But before someone is blaming another one, he should be sure to have his own house clean enough for it!
125 billion USD is the defense budget of about 3-4 European countries ... even if they fulfill their duty which tells 2% of the revenue!
And as I told previously, if you cut off al the costs ion the US defense budget which have nothing to do with NATO duty etc., the so often shown statistic is looking quite other!

And Yes ... I agree that all NATO member have to fulfill their duty with these 2% ... and in case of my own country I demand this more as Trump does, because there is modernization jam and lack of equipment existing, which is shameful for my country!

 

So then the outside contractor has to go through all of the DoD legacy systems and confirm their information is accurate before they can take over. That runs into the exact same problem.

 

No it doesn't. You have no idea of how to do data entry for a new system. If you did it wouldn't look so hard to you.
They parallel task the current payroll data entry with both systems. It isn't rocket surgery.