Dubya
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- Dec 29, 2012
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So idiot....since the total DoD budget only makes up 18% of the Federal budget....how much of that is "waste?"
Now, compare that to Medicare and other entitlements that eat up over 50% of the budget.
So you think going after a piece of the 18% is going to make a dent while the entitlements keep getting bigger and bigger.
Just because you got hired on to clean toilets under some DoD contract doesn't make you an expert on the DoD budget, asswipe.
I think before we start tearing into social security, medicare, and medicaid, we need to look at the waste in military spending. Until I had this job, I didn't realize there are ten civilians and contract employees behind every person in uniform and only about four of them do any actual work. The software I saw was cumbersome and it took more people to maintain it than any value garnered. Not only that, it was poorly implemented and updates and tweeks were avoided because it cost a million dollars for any small change due to the hoops contractors have to jump through due to military specs. I asked how are we supposed to quickly manufacture weapons when the system is so convoluted to be answered, "oh, we'd just have to drop the system and do it manually". How stupid is that? The idea is to be able to replenish faster than the adversary. We need to clean house asap!
When the army says it has enough tanks modernized and the politicians want to keep the program going to get jobs in their states, then it's waste.