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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I admit I didn’t bring it all together, I got tired halfway through. I do not mean to say that the DOD is a scam. They spent their money, and may be wasting it, but they themselves can’t tell you where. Doge should have started with the Pentagon. The one agency, out of all of them, that can’t even be audited, is left alone, and given more money every year. As far as I have seen with doge, the only thing they have been cutting is stuff they don’t like. That is not how any of this works. Congress is responsible for determining where the money goes and what each agency does. The executive branch is tasked to follow that.


  • The best argument that Doge is a scam is that they didn’t start with the Pentagon. All federal agencies are audited every year, they even each have an office of non partisan experts that compile this yearly and continually look for fraud and waste. The Pentagon was ordered to complete and audit by Congress, and given several years to do. They failed for more than 10 years to provide ANY numbers (aside from the Marines that made stuff up). When they finally completed their audit in 2018, they failed to justify the numbers for 7 years in a row. They currently can’t tell where more than 50% of their funding is spent. That will now be half a trillion dollars. The first thing Trump did was fire all the expert people that audit federal agencies, and then exempt the Pentagon. One agency, that consumes nearly half of the federal annual discretionary budget, can’t tell us where they spend more than half their money. This is what most people call a scam.