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.

  • @RaphaelOP
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    -111 year ago

    but that’s just a guys opinion.

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

    • @pozbo
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      201 year ago

      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?

        • blightbow
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          31 year ago

          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?

            • blightbow
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              21 year ago

              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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                  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.

                  • @pozbo
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                    31 year ago

                    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.

    • LemmyLefty
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      141 year ago

      Politicized speculation is not better than an unknown.

    • girlfreddy
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      71 year ago

      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.

    • TWeaK
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      41 year ago

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

      • @RaphaelOP
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        -71 year ago

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

        • TWeaK
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          41 year ago

          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.