5 Comments
User's avatar
⭠ Return to thread
Megan Baker's avatar

The Pentagon gets MORE than it asks for, and the corruption among contractors is notorious. I guess that, like the lottery, DOGE is popular among people who can’t do math.

Expand full comment
Ann Robinson's avatar

Is contractor corruption notorious? I didn't know that. What I do know is that contractors will charge what the government will bear. The whole process is a scandal, but it starts with Uncle Sam.

Expand full comment
Megan Baker's avatar

Clearly. We the People need good advocates and we don't have any. If we did they would reign in the colossal graft attendant with not just our military budget but all the other ways in which a spell in Congress or the Senate is little more than a get rich quick scheme.

Expand full comment
Ann Robinson's avatar

Frankly, I,m not sure how to correct that short of voter head transplants. And then there's the problem of party politics and good candidates, not to mention a free and honest press.

Expand full comment
W. A. Samuel's avatar

Yes, it’s likely that DoD and their contractors are both rampantly corrupt. We won’t know the exact parties and to what extent until a DoD audit is performed, completed and transparently communicated. Outside (non-government) auditors are needed. The DoD has not been / completed an audit in over a decade, perhaps longer (what I read some where else, perhaps from DOGE or Open The Books staff).

Expand full comment