Oh, and I’d dial it back on those $1T or $2T savings and any associated DOGE dividend if all they can find to cut in Defense is $80M:
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5174318-pentagon-savings-initial-doge-scrutiny/
The problem is the system. A system that accepts high costs for general stuff for the military and the govt.
I spent almost 40 years in the military and did most of the ordering of supplies for my shop so I saw the figures. Additionally there were stupid and expensive requirement like minimum quantities of certain items when ordering. Smal examples, I needed to order new set of side cutters, minimum order 6, if I wanted to order RTV(with one year life, and would get stuff 6 months old already) the minimum order on some of that stuff was 50 tubes, and we might use 1 per year.
The supply system is broken, people only care that paperwork is good.
Friedman people spending other people’s money on other people. No one cares.
SS/ Medicare/ Medicaid/ welfare are the same. Is the paperwork good…. Send it
My wife got here Medicare statement and it had 7 colonoscopy bags on it over 7 months for a total of 3500. She does not wear one. Dr was from texas, we don’t live there. Called fraud line and woman said “oh yea that is a big scam going on right now”. She gets calls all the time for medical devices like back braces that will be “free”
Fraud and corruption are real, but perhaps even worse is the who gives an F attitude by the bureaucrats and GS-9s