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.

  • 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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            1 year ago

            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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              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.