Better headline, Pentagon has failed 100% of their audits since being required to have them.
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time to turn the pentagon into affordable housing.
What's the point of the audit if it doean't matter and if it isn't enforced?
I wonder if they are planning a party for the 10th anniversary.
This is like a ton of things with the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The GAO is required to conduits audits and report failures to Congress. It's then up to Congress to hand out punishment. The problem is that the US Congress routinely lacks a spine to do anything.
But this is also why DOGE is seemingly redundant here. Everything that DOGE did is basically the same thing the GAO does. The difference is the GAO reports to Congress and DOGE reported to the President. That said, the President cannot unilaterally cut spending to anything as the Constitution indicates that power belongs to Congress. This is where a lot of challenges to DOGE come from.
However, those challenges mostly ended when Congress passed public law 119-28 which basically said all the cuts DOGE made were cool. However, there's still challenges about those order of operations there, in that DOGE can't have made the cuts until Congress said they were cool. And only on the date that Congress said they were cool with the cuts can they actually be cut. So money has to be spent for the in between time from when DOGE made a cut and when Congress said it was cool.
However, there's still challenges about those order of operations there
Here me out though, time itself is woke, after all grammatical tense which is nothing less than the expression of time in language is embedded into the word woke, so nothing could be more woke than time.
With this in mind your arguments revolving around the fiddly details of things coming before other things and drawing speculative conclusions based off that here are invalid and collapse into partisan DEI nonsense.
"You don't actually think they spend $20,000 on a hammer, $30,000 on a toilet seat, do you?"
Hey, do you want pretty numbers, or do you want blown-up alien mothership a? It's an either-or kind of situation. Source: Stargate: SG1
How would we, or Congress know?
You hit the nail on the head, as a result you have damaged $50,000 worth of equipment.
Good job.
I honestly don't know how they could pass. The military is the largest organization in the United States, spread across 5 independent branches, with god knows how many systems spanning back to the beginnings of computerized accounting. And I haven't even brought up the astonishing levels of waste.
Getting all this mess on the same page regarding accounting systems would be a Herculean task and the sticker price would be staggering. I can't imagine imagine how to begin approaching it.
I used MS Dynamics for a past job. To master it, you needed accounting and database skills. There were only a handful of people on the whole damned internet that were out there answering questions. I'd guess it would take some monster team of people with such mismatched skill sets, with military experience and clearance, to even start on this project.
Job Posting:
- Current or former military
- FORTRAN
- COBOL
- AS400
- 1980s BASIC
- VIC-20 and Commodore 64
- Mainframes
- Every db system ever written
- Every computer language, must be skilled in every "C" language, yes, all of them
- Top Secret clearance
- Accounting experience, 10-years, 20 preferred
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Pay: $75,000
Maybe pull some math geeks from the NSA? They're geniuses with clearance. :)
Daw, those goofy generals and blacksite contractors. Let's give em a few hundred billion more and let 'em try again.
@supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz Why bother with these financial audits? Time, money, and effort put in to produce a report that is immediately ignored or dismissed? What's the point?
It is a form of prayer in my society, it is difficult to explain.