Comments by "Jack B" (@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing) on "The Hill"
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That math doesn't hold up because, sadly, we have to spend $1 for the same screw that another nation's military buys for $.30. What we need is to stop getting gouged for our military dollar. Half is beyond a huge "No". But if we went back to 70's methods of being frugal military spenders, maybe a quarter, roughly $100 billion, could be shaved.
It's a sad, dirty secret of Government spending that if you don't spend whatever Congress gave you as a federal agency the year before, your budget WILL get cut and you WILL get in trouble for not spending it all by the next year. Not only is there no reward for saving Uncle Sam a buck, but there's punishment for it.
Edit: And trillions didn't go missing. That is an urban myth based on a misquote taken out of context. There was decades worth of stuff that, when adjusted for inflation, was worth over a trillion dollars that wasn't part of the DIGITAL accounting systems since we transitioned to computers instead of paper documents in the 80's. Metaphorically, it means that the DMV didn't have your title in the computer for your Grandpa's '70 Cadillac because it was still on paper somewhere and was never put into the system.
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