Posted on 11/16/2024 11:04:57 AM PST by hardspunned
The Pentagon on Friday failed its seventh audit in a row, with the nation’s largest government agency still unable to fully account for its more than $824 billion budget, though officials stress they are making good progress toward a clean audit in 2028.
The Department of Defense technically earned a disclaimer of opinion, meaning it failed to provide sufficient information to auditors to form an accurate opinion.
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At that salary level, we’re talking GS-13 auditors.
He needs to assign a senor general (not eligible to retire for several years)to the task and empower him with the authority and resources he requires to make it happen.
Tell him at the outset if DOD fails the next audit he will receive a general discharge.
That’s not just Hegseth. Ramaswamy and Musk are going to help.
I never saw it as rocket science. But the elements I had no view of...was the travel/temp duty budget and spending. Maybe that was a more reckless area.i spoke once to a navy guy managing an exercise budget....getting up into tens of millions over a month. That would have been stressful.
“YAY. We only failed slightly less than usual.”
“YAY. Our policies are working. More people are on welfare than ever.”
Government maffs
Relax. The eighth audit should do the trick.
It’s that “progress” BS that costs so much. Too much social engineering going on in the military.
Someone is stealing. Find and arrest them.
He is going to clean house big time!!
These audits will never be 100% accurate and there are many reasons why. Most of them are not sinister or entail theft or waste. For example - the military owns $100,000,000 (AMDF PRICE) of widgets that are old (legacy) but they have a way to convert these old widgets to new model fidgets. The military wants the fidgets but doesn’t really need the widgets anymore and new fidgets cost a lot to buy. Instead the military buys modification kits for the widgets that turns them into fidgets and sends them to a depot to be converted, that is a good use of taxpayer money. But if the AMDF PRICE of a fidget is less than a widget, an auditor will see a problem. Say the newer fidget’s AMDF PRICE is half of what the older widget was, now you took $100,000,000 worth of widgets and turned them into $50,000,000 of fidgets. You have the same total number of fidgets as you had widgets, and your old widgets are now up to spec fidgets but an auditor is going to think you lost $50,000,000 worth of stock along the way in addition to the cost of the Mod Kits you bought and the labor it cost to do the conversion.
In reality you extended the life of a weapon system and saved the taxpayer money by not buying new fidgets but on paper it looks like you’ve lost millions of dollars.
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys -— P.J. O’Rourke
I like the way you think.
They better bring Quint along too. It’ll be a real barn burner.
But Quint’s a movie star now. Do you think he’ll have the time?
They “failed better” than the last six times ... DEI in action.
You need to reign in government regulations. That’s the main problem and then you need to stop the insanity of the acquisition process which is a complete disaster. Last but not least is build the product you need, not new ideas and requirements every 18 to 36 months based on personel turnover.
It’s easy to fix, it’s hard to make the change.
I have a feeling that Trump will get it done well before 2028.
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