Posted on 03/17/2023 6:33:49 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Perhaps the greatest incompetence on the U.S. political scene is the military which spent $9 trillion in the Afghanistan war on terror over a period of 20 years and failed miserably to train the Afghan military to defend its territory.
To date, no military officers in charge of this colossal failure have been fired or demoted, while many private contractors and the military industrial complex laughed all the way to the bank, making exorbitant profits off of the Afghanistan campaign while it lasted.
Next is an excerpt from americanthinker.com by Olivia Murray of 3/9/23.
Now, House Republicans are poking around. Three days ago, Rep. James Comer and Rep. Pete Sessions sent a letter to the DoD’s Lloyd Austin regarding the messy finances. Read below:
The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the Department of Defense’s (DOD) failure to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse. In November 2022, DOD failed its fifth consecutive audit, unable to account for sixty-one percent of its $3.5 trillion in assets. The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) also recently reported that DOD continues to fail to accurately account for hundreds of billions of dollars of government furnished property in the hands of contractors. DOD’s inability to adequately track assets risks our military readiness and represents a flagrant disregard for taxpayer funds, even as it receives nearly a trillion dollars annually.
It’s a tossup whether this is gross incompetence or outright defrauding of government funds.
Perhaps the most pressing problem this nation faces is the incompetence of the Department of Education.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Higher education is not only getting prohibitively expensive but much of it is a waste of time where roughly 50% of graduating students are unemployed yet not able to find any work at a job other than at minimum wage. To say that our educational system is in crisis mode is probably an understatement, all due to an incompetent system of education.
Add to that our banking system.
Affirmative action education and hiring just keeps on providing benefits.
I lived in my job dealing with that government incompetence. People could say or do anything no matter how backwards, and derail any good idea singlehandedly.
Just so you know, the US ranks First in Wakandan Science AND Math!!
Break out the demographics and it looks a lot better - although the drive for equity has started to make it worse for all groups.
For the right mind, none of it is a “waste of time”. If you are smart and not mentally ill, in depth study of the humanities makes you better at whatever you do.
My college didn’t have “pre-med”, so I was an English major, and my Shakespeare is more useful to me day-to-day than the molecular biology I missed out on.
The real issue is that all baccalaureate programs could cut 80% of the students and the programs would improve. A lot of the rot in colleges is the need to provide “education” for the eight out of ten who should have stopped at 12th grade, or even 10th grade.
One should develop a “knowledge and skills portfolio”, much like a financial portfolio, with knowlege in several unrelated fields. Do something with your hands, and something with your brain.
“Individual incompetence by Anthony S. Fauci M.D., as the director and bureaucrat of the government agency known as NIAID”
Incompetence or greed and malice???
These were people who were repeatedly promoted strictly on their scope of knowledge limited to a narrow and specific field.
It goes without saying that they possessed no grasp of ‘supervisory’ basics and they had the worst possible ‘people skills’...if ANY.
Failing upwards is the standard operating procedure in government
This is a systematic assault on meritocracy, under the guise of dismantling “ableism”.
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