We all knew this was going to happen didn't we? The US military has been known for haemorrhaging money
”Who knew it was so filthy under the fridge we never move to clean under?!”
I was expecting officials to bribe their way out of it
“We failed the audit, but we never expected to pass it."
Fucking lmao
I'd be surprised if they didn't fail tbh
I'm honestly blown away that they're admitting this... publicly, at that.
They know nothing will happen.
This is what the public expected. How much more shocked would you be if the headlines said they passed?
I didn't expect *to ever hear about the Pentagon being audited* ever again is what I'm getting at. Why would they even bother auditing it for real?
There is also this
i mean like they have a massive fuckin budget, you'd think that would warrant an audit and adjustment in the next budget. but like said nothing will happen.
no shit. even on the defense contracting they over buy tons of crap, much more than their contractors can deliver, and don't care that they wasted money.
I'm betting on this being corrupt were trump will can things like government forecasting the weather (an essential tool in war and out of war) and keep up things that support building a wall that won't work.
I mean how else do you expect us to pay for the Aurora Bomber and all the tons of Chemtrail juice, Autism additives, and Gay frog Flouride? The money's gotta come from somewhere.
Clearly we must increase the budget even further
literally my rational in school
Bit of a bump but there's some massive figures involved in the military budget that no one knows where they went.
“If the DOD were being honest, they would go to Congress and say, ‘All these proposed budgets we’ve been presenting to you are a bunch of garbage,’ ” said Jack Armstrong, who spent more than five years in the
Defense Department’s Office of Inspector General as a supervisory director of audits before retiring in 2011.
Among the laundering tactics the Pentagon uses: So-called “one-year money”—funds that Congress intends to be spent in a single fiscal year—gets shifted into a pool of five-year money. This maneuver exploits
the fact that federal law does not require the return of unspent “five-year money” during that five-year allocation period.
The phony numbers are referred to inside the Pentagon as “plugs,” as in plugging a hole, said current and former officials. “Nippering,” a reference to a sharp-nosed tool used to snip off bits of wire or metal, is
Pentagon slang for shifting money from its congressionally authorized purpose to a different purpose.
In all, at least a mind-boggling $21 trillion of Pentagon financial transactions between 1998 and 2015 could not be traced, documented, or explained, concluded Skidmore. Skidmore, in a report coauthored with
Catherine Austin Fitts, a former assistant secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development who complained about similar plugs in HUD financial statements, does not contend that all of this $21
trillion was secret or misused funding. And indeed, the plugsare found on both the positive and the negative sides of the ledger, thus potentially netting each other out.
But the Pentagon’s bookkeeping is so obtuse, Skidmore and Fitts added, that it is impossible to trace the actual sources and destinations of the $21 trillion. The disappearance of thousands of records adds
further uncertainty. The upshot is that no one can know for sure how much of that $21 trillion was, or was not, being spent legitimately.
Without oversight for so long, who's to say that people in charge haven't been siphoning money from the military's virtually limitless budget into their own pockets for decades?
It is either straight fraud or it is beyond black budget programs that is funding god knows what.
Issue is the money's unaccounted for. If it was used for classified projects it'd be marked as having been used for such.
I would nearly want to say theres beyond classified in the case of the US government even with the black budget stuff.
Getting the Department of Defense under control would be the biggest government undertaking since the New Deal tbh.
Clearly, the solution to this is to give them even more money in hopes of fixing this little problem
Double the budget to hire another part time bean counter to help hide from the next audit. Also funnel thst money to my DOD contact please
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