Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) ripped the Department of Defense’s finances for failing its fifth consecutive audit and inability to account for 61% of its $3.5 trillion in assets.

“The most ravenous Leviathan of our government that devours the people’s wealth is the Department of Defense,” Higgins said in an impassioned speech during a House Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing on the DOD’s failed audit, financial management practices.

  • Raphael@lemmy.worldOP
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    but that’s just a guys opinion.

    About all we can have since the funds are unaccounted for.

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      Do you think the pentagon has EVER passed an audit?

      Do you think a government paying for black projects would discuss these black projects with an accountant just to pass an audit?

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        You think two thirds of the military’s assets is invested in their handful of projects that random congressional reps don’t get to know about?

        come ON

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          What feedback do you have on the first sentence, which is not hyperbole? Honestly curious. You appear to have very strong opinions on this topic, but you aren’t replying to any of the comments pointing out 33 years worth of failed audits.

          Is this most recent one particularly suspect compared to audits that have come before it, and more sketchy than ones that have failed during administrations run by the other party?

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            Sorry you’re asking ME for proof that 61% of the military’s budget isn’t secret from congress?

            Dude, if that was even close to possibly true we would have a MUCH larger issue

            Yeah, the pentagon only fails budgets because they don’t fucking know what they’re doing with the money. They sent two billion in cash to Iraq and lost all of it, but okay, none of this is because of their 33 years of recorded incompetence!

            Some fucking mental gymnastics there bro

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              No, was asking you for your thoughts on this specific sentence, on its own:

              Do you think the pentagon has EVER passed an audit?

              Which you did eventually stumble into, but not before engaging in some mental gymnastics for the sake of accusing me of mental gymnastics. Thanks, sort of?

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                Honestly, are you a bot because holy shit do you not make any sense

                Occam’s razor is that the pentagon is bad at accounting for their assets, not that they’re completely circumventing congressional oversight of the military unconstitutionally, which you seem to think is the case, and that it’s good, somehow.

                Imagine licking the boot so bad that you twist two trillion dollars going up in smoke into a win

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                  which you seem to think is the case, and that it’s good, somehow.

                  Imagine licking the boot so bad that you twist two trillion dollars going up in smoke into a win

                  We seem to keep coming back to how I supposedly think or assumptions about why I was asking the question. Either you have confused me for the original person you were replying to, or you’re jackhammering straw men onto anything they might stick to while making a conscious choice to be a tool about it.

                  As you were.

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                    Either you have confused me for the original person you were replying to, or you’re jackhammering straw men onto anything they might stick

                    Speaking as the guy this particular individual mistook you for, it’s both.

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      Maybe if Congress stopped automatically green-lighting every military expenditure request without question, instead of demanding concise monthy reports on service/equipment purchases AND verified location, the US taxpayer could feel confident that their leadership actually gives a shit about them.

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      You could certainly form a better opinion based on an overall understanding of military practices, rather than one pulled out of an ass.

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        Are you saying that representative pulled it out of his ass that America is sending hundreds of billions of taxpayer money to Ukraine?

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          I’m saying the representative pulled out of his ass an implication that $2 trillion worth of missing assets all went to Ukraine. The stuff that went to Ukraine almost certainly is accounted for.