Rogue Pentagon Bombs Yet ANOTHER Consecutive Audit, by Ben Bartee

It gets nearly $1 trillion per year, but it can’t account for where the money goes. From Ben Bartee at armageddonprose.substack.com:

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
-H.L. Mencken

That a government agency given almost a trillion dollars every year in public money could fail every audit it undergoes for nearly a decade proves the iron political law: one can get away with any amount of abuse or malfeasance if one transgresses in the name of “national security.”

Where are the conservative deficit hawks — the “how are we going to pay for that” people?

All the “defense” machine has to do, in the rare event it meets any criticism or skepticism, is splash a scary brown man with a beard and a scimitar ranting about jihad in some Pakistani cave across every corporate media outlet, and suddenly all the critics’ concerns vanish into thin air.

Related: How Long Until Retiring Gen. Mark Milley Is on the Board of Raytheon or Boeing?

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