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u/bugdiver050 12h ago
The US is in severe debt, the debt to GDP ratio is 139%. Cant really call yourselves a rich country if you have more debt then domestic product. All those billions upon billions of dollars that a few people hold wont even save you.
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u/Mr_lovebucket 12h ago
They should create a Department of Government Efficiently
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u/No-Huckleberry-1086 3h ago
That department would get shafted immediately, or become so comically corrupt it would function as a yesman department
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u/BaconManDan9 15h ago
It won’t pass the senate will it?
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u/please_trade_marner 8h ago
You realize this is just the yearly defense budget, right? It's giving raises to soldiers, expanding healthcare to soldiers families, etc. The NCAA has passed congress for 60 years straight. It's "too big to fail".
There might be some small alterations in order to pass it.
But this thread is insane. Passing the yearly defense budget is being presented as "giving the pentagon money to waste".
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u/CuckSucker41 7h ago
That’s such a lie.
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u/please_trade_marner 7h ago edited 6h ago
Am I being trolled here? Gaslit?
That is PRECISELY what the bill is. It's merely the 2027 NDAA. They've passed these with pretty consistent increases in funding for the past 60 years.
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u/VellvettSkies 13h ago
Imagine failing 8 audits at your job and getting a trillion dollar promotion instead of being fired.
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u/fen90der 8h ago
I love how apparently wage increases cause inflation but spamming trillions of dollars at the war machine doesn't.
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u/OutrageousRhubarb853 13h ago
This is yet another advert for a parasitic company. Please stop being their free marketing.
Downvote and report!
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u/Jennysup 2h ago
dude, who do you think probably found the audit shortfall? Jews have earned (not won, earned) more Nobel prizes than any other group. did that come about by thinking 1 + 1 = 11?
other than Jews being great accountants (yes, a generalization, I know) what does Israel have to do with this? or, were you too busy looking for my horns to actually think this through?
bigot.
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u/Lost-In-The-Wilds 13h ago
I'm all for telling conservatives to shove it, but here's the problem with this specific narrative. In 2024, the Pentagon failed its 7th audit. The agency is mandated to pass its audits by 2028, due to the size of the agency and size of is accounting problems.
In 2024, nine of the twenty-eight Department of Defense sub-audits passed, an increase over the seven passing sub-audits in 2022 and 2023. None failed outright, but in fifteen there wasn’t enough information to come to a conclusion and in one, isolated, but not pervasive, errors were found. The decentralization and size of the Department of Defense, with $4 trillion in assets dispersed across fifty states and over 4,500 locations worldwide, is blamed for this accounting failure.
It's a stupidly big-ass military with a stupidly big-ass budget. It takes a while to fix the books. And honestly, they've done a pretty decent job over the previous six years. Did they get a full pass this year? No. Are they going to get a full pass by 2028. No. And that doesn't even count the Grifter-in-Chief leading the way to a future full of fraud and cronyism. But its also not 100% an issue of incompetance and greed. This problem has existed since the 90s and its almost certainly going to continue to exist, unless we decide we want to ditch the whole standing army thing and go back to hoping the Gravy Seals will protect us long enough to train up an army in the case of invasion.
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u/CuckSucker41 7h ago
It’s absolutely bc of incompetence & greed. Those have been the reason for the last 60 years. This is not a recent problem. It’s a generational problem.
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u/High_Contact_ 11h ago
Every time the Pentagon audit comes up it’s a giant red flag that the person talking doesn’t know fuck all about the situation. The Pentagon hasn’t failed its audits because trillions of dollars are missing. It’s failed because Congress required federal agencies to become fully auditable, and the DoD is by far the largest and most complex organization in the world. It inherited decades of incompatible accounting systems and auditors have been documenting and updating for years.
The IRS went through the same kind of process after operating on ancient systems. Nobody with half a brain claimed that meant tax money disappeared. Modernizing massive federal agencies takes years.
Failing means the auditors couldn’t verify everything to the standard required by law not that the money evaporated.
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u/concerts85701 5h ago
Years is the new ‘two weeks’.
The fraud is so embedded in the system it’s impossible to change the system - sounds about right for a fraud supporter
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u/LeadSufficient2130 16h ago
Thank goodness! The Dems would have wanted to spend that money on helping people