Texas "draws the line" against "tyrants" in Washington

[bascule]

All government programs should be constantly and rigorously analyzed for ways to improve efficiency. Anything less is a waste of MY MONEY.

 

Unfortunately, this isn't the case at the Pentagon, which is the only federal department exempt from auditing. This isn't for reasons of national security, but rather because their accounting practices are a horrible, horrible mess and in dire need of modernization.

 

There are literally trillions of dollars that have been pumped through the Pentagon which they can't account for:

 

http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfolio/2008/04/14/Pentagons-Accounting-Mess

[Pangloss]

Unsupported doesn't mean it was thrown away, it just means it wasn't accounted for properly. For example the article says that in 2006 $258 billion was improperly accounted. That's more than half of the defense budget for that year. Given that the budget is approximated in general terms (we know roughly what things cost), it's unlikely that that much money is actually thrown out the window. But in order to realize a savings of "hundreds of billions", it would have to be literally going out the window. There's no evidence of that here.

[bascule]

Well, going back to your quote:

 

All government programs should be constantly and rigorously analyzed for ways to improve efficiency.

 

How can they possibly do that at the Pentagon when their balance sheets don't even add up? We don't know where the money is going.

[Pangloss]

I agree.

[The Bear's Key]

If the previous administration were involved, then perhaps the money hadn't flown out the window.

 

And considering Texas is the home base for Karl Rove & crew's schemes/operations, and they're now back home during intermission, might the Texas politicians in reality be upset about this?....

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30277540

Obama vows to cut dozens of federal programs

'There will be no sacred cows,' president says as he targets inefficiency

 

President Barack Obama said on Saturday he would soon announce the elimination of dozens of government programs as part of a broad effort to restore fiscal accountability to the federal budget.

[Mr Skeptic]

How can they possibly do that at the Pentagon when their balance sheets don't even add up? We don't know where the money is going.

 

Well, accountants are expensive. Maybe they just tried to save some money by not having any More likely though, at least some of that money was most likely intentionally obfuscated for national security reasons.