Opinion $35 Trillion Pentagon Blackhole

[avenue94]

It is already known that the Pentagon never passes an audit

Some parts of it do, some don't. It's a lot more complicated than Doge or really anyone would like to pretend.

 

[Osculater]

Some parts of it do, some don't. It's a lot more complicated than Doge or really anyone would like to pretend.

 

[Michaelangelo]

Prob shouldn’t have wasted all that black budget on Metal Gears

 

[Natural Order]

Some parts of it do, some don't. It's a lot more complicated than Doge or really anyone would like to pretend.

Like 7 or 9 of 28 depts.....it's really not complicated at all.

 

[avenue94]

Like 7 or 9 of 28 depts.....it's really not complicated at all.

By complicated I mean the entire fiscal shape of DoD. For example, most of the missing funds aren't gone, it's jsut bad book keeping. That's a problem, but it's different (but related) problem from embezzling or fraud, etc.

 

[shunyata]

Well millions of 200 year old people are apparently collecting social security mean life expectancy had been greatly underestimated. I have no doubt the pentagon expenditures are perfectly legit as well

All because Musk's goons don't understand how the database is coded, or Musk doesn't even care that he doesn't understand how it's coded because he'd rather push the lie to forward his own agenda.

He wants to be the worlds first trillionaire.

Easiest way to do that at this point is to raid the US federal government budget.

That's what this is.

 

[Natural Order]

By complicated I mean the entire fiscal shape of DoD. For example, most of the missing funds aren't gone, it's jsut bad book keeping. That's a problem, but it's different (but related) problem from embezzling or fraud, etc.

Gotcha. Yeah you're not wrong, the major portion of this is bad record keeping and general incompetence. Which is still a massive afront to the American taxpayer and the duties those departments are supposed to be performing.

And when you're dealing with organization so poor, it provides an environment ripe for corruption and fraud. How much is anybody's guess. We'll see what Elon comes up with!

 

[Whippy McGee]

Shit! He found the weaponization of the Moon fund.

 

[avenue94]

Gotcha. Yeah you're not wrong, the major portion of this is bad record keeping and general incompetence. Which is still a massive afront to the American taxpayer and the duties those departments are supposed to be performing.

And when you're dealing with organization so poor, it provides an environment ripe for corruption and fraud. How much is anybody's guess. We'll see what Elon comes up with!

It won't be anything new lol. So many GOP congressmemebers are suddenly having amnesia about the years of failed audits and acting like Musk is the first they've heard of these problems.

Edit: reminds me of all the 100K toilet seat problems, where that wasn't the actual cost it was just bad book keeping and moving funds between accounts.

 

[heloder]

So 41 YEARS of the full US defense budget (if we are being lazy, and just use the 2025 budget request, which is 841B) is missing? If you believe that, I've got a really nice bridge for sale.

(Americans are really bad at math.)

 

[Sweater of AV]

This will finally settle whether information escapes from a black hole.

 

[cincymma79]

Unreal engine with Musk + 18 000 B subsidies for Musk too IMHO.

While how highly Pengagon had valued M 113 30+ 50 + y.o tin cans I don't wonder how highly they might price another type of museum exposition worth stuff. In some cases when scheduled for expensive decommisioning old museum type stuff had been valued as fresh recently produced new replacement.
It is business and nothing personal.

The only way I could do that was if you wanted me too I could come and pick it out and then I can go pick up it from your place or you could just pick me out of there or you could pick me out and I could just go pick up my truck or you can just come pick me out of my truck

I assume yours was also typed with your middle Button

 

[Rational Poster]

So 41 YEARS of the full US defense budget (if we are being lazy, and just use the 2025 budget request, which is 841B) is missing? If you believe that, I've got a really nice bridge for sale.

From the retards that brought you tariffs make money. We now have literally all government spending ever is bad.

They really think government should run like a checking account.

 

[Osculater]

(Americans are really bad at math.)

 

[Rational Poster]

Gotcha. Yeah you're not wrong, the major portion of this is bad record keeping and general incompetence. Which is still a massive afront to the American taxpayer and the duties those departments are supposed to be performing.

And when you're dealing with organization so poor, it provides an environment ripe for corruption and fraud. How much is anybody's guess. We'll see what Elon comes up with!

There are receipts for everything I'm sure, and there's actually a lot of good reason that military records are "poorly kept" and inefficient to access. The US government and military in particular are pretty good at keeping records as archaic as some of their methods may be. It seems pretty logical we wouldn't want things like exact procurement for current stockpiles and research into specific projects to all members of this congress, let alone the entire world. Even going back decades, because all of those weapons and systems are part of the current inventory.

Records kept in an abandoned mine and accessed by tricycle are a lot more secure than anything on a server.

 

[Bia]

what if they found the money is streaming into Area 51? what they gona do about it?

 

[High Test With da Best]

Well millions of 200 year old people are apparently collecting social security mean life expectancy had been greatly underestimated. I have no doubt the pentagon expenditures are perfectly legit as well

Yeah I dunno. I for one believe our brave men and women fighting in Vietnam and Korea should still be supported...

what if they found the money is streaming into Area 51? what they gona do about it?

Knock on the bunker door and make some cutbacks!

 

[Natural Order]

There are receipts for everything I'm sure, and there's actually a lot of good reason that military records are "poorly kept" and inefficient to access. The US government and military in particular are pretty good at keeping records as archaic as some of their methods may be. It seems pretty logical we wouldn't want things like exact procurement for current stockpiles and research into specific projects to all members of this congress, let alone the entire world. Even going back decades, because all of those weapons and systems are part of the current inventory.

Records kept in an abandoned mine and accessed by tricycle are a lot more secure than anything on a server.

Lol, you’re always making excuses for American failures.

“Receipts for everything” = 75% of departments failing audits for seven straight years.



I do like that last paragraph though, very true.

 

[Rational Poster]

Lol, you’re always making excuses for American failures.

I do like that last paragraph though, very true.

You really think of all things American the military is a failure?

 

[Natural Order]

You really think of all things American the military is a failure?

The record keeping doofus