Breaking Points Krystal and Saagar discuss the Pentagon failing their most recent audit while Congress continues ramping up the military budget.
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So … what is the point of the audits if there are no consequences for being unable to account for the money?
war is a racket
A law with no teeth. Mandate a 10% less funding law for agencies that fail their audits.
Criminal war dogs.
Ohh no when they fail an audit they should lose a percentage exponentially. 1% first year, 2% 2nd, 4%, 8, and so on until its shut down. What happens when a plain business or citizen fails 5 audits in a row?
It's almost like if there are no consequences, nothing matters.
They should be penalized by the amount they can’t account for.
Hmmm I’m pretty sure the culprits are probably the owners/stock owners of arms industries
Why even audit if they do nothing about it?
The audits will never come up right because they're running a shameless racket that makes a handful of people obscenely rich and powerful.
The only way to fix it is to replace the ruling mafia with something that's worth a damn.
Congress makes the DOD set up financial systems to do things they way they want, i.e.. oversite. Then try to make that system fit the way commercial businesses get audited. It's just stupidity to think that trying to fit the square peg of the DOD finances into the round hole of a commercial style audit is going to work.
The DOD spends money, often times a lot of it on existential threats to our country that may never become reality. But if they didn't, what would happen if it did become reality. Goodbye, USA. How do you audit that? No commercial company would do that kind of business!
Commercial business are out to make money and pay taxes, and that's the basis of them getting audited!. Does the DOD do either of those? No. So since their inception the systems they have developed to track their spending don't take those things into consideration. Does that mean they don't know where their funding is being spent, of course not. The auditors come in and are looking for specific things and ways of doing business that they see in the corporate world. When they don't find them, the DOD fails its audit. Nothing to do with a lack of accountability.
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And people say the PLA is corrupt; The U.S just legalized it's corruption to mask the problems they face.
….aaaaaaand, weren’t they also not able to account for $1.7 trillion in spending?
just live with it people. the swamp will do what they want.
Imagine if the media tried to make change instead of just reporting on stuff
There are no consequences for failure and corruption, they are rewarded, what do people expect
I wish people would stop using the F-35 program as an example, as it shows they haven't actually spent much time on topic. There is no shortage to choose from but we keep on the same dumb points in the argument.
The Chinese J-20 costs more than the F-35 making Saagar's comment nonsensical. A 5th Gen fighter is literally impossible to make cheap, when you are literally developing entirely new ways to both engineer and actually construct exponentionally more complex planes. Go to any country in the world and say you can build a 6th gen program with lower costs than F-35 and watch them laugh you out of the room.
Northrop Grumman just finished the B-21 Raider development ahead of schedule and under budget. The aviation side of the military is literally the worst place to look if you want to find the bloat in the military budget. Literally everywhere else including the munitions for those aircraft have more than enough corruption to make headlines and you still somehow mess up the reporting.
Ultimately ×4. A little under 1 per minute
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This is why people don’t wanna pay taxes. It’s all wasted to the rich.
Increase the budget for what? More overspending?