Five Sideed Money Sink!

[JackLuis]

US Lawmakers Rip DoD Over $125B in Waste

Rumsfeld said the Army couldn't even account for all the money they spent in 2001, now we hear the Pentagon wastes enough to buy the Air Farce 3,000 snazzy F-35s.

WASHINGTON — The Senate’s No. 2 Democrat on Thursday asked the Pentagon to respond to $125 billion in waste-reduction proposals republicized this week.

In a letter to Defense Secretary Ash Carter, Sen. Dick Durbin, who is the Senate minority whip and ranking member on the Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, voiced concern about runaway contractor costs in particular.

Durbin's letter paralleled letters from other lawmakers to Carter asking for information about a 2015 Defense Business Board (DBB) report that recently surfaced in the news.

The 31 members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, in one such letter, focus on allegations that Pentagon leaders shelved the study.

That letter questions "why learning about potential savings that would be enough to ‘cover the operational costs for 50 Army brigades, or 3,000 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters for the Air Force, or 10 aircraft-carrier strike groups for the Navy,’ would not also be a priority.”

 

[BotanyBoy]

That's just the military....Imagine what the rest of the government scams look like.

Agriculture.

DOT

Education

Health Care.

Then you have state and local level parasites bleeding everyone for all they can.

California repaved the highway through town 4 times this summer and I hear they are going to re-do the bridge again first thing come spring. Fifth time is a charm!

Gotta get that funding!!

 

[Hard_Rom]

That is a shyte load of money. Could make some minister of finance in a small country weep in frustration.