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When you add it all up, it's real money.

The Pentagon has buried an internal study that exposed $125 billion in administrative waste in its business operations amid fears Congress would use the findings as an excuse to slash the defense budget, according to interviews and confidential memos obtained by The Washington Post.

Pentagon leaders had requested the study to help make their enormous back-office bureaucracy more efficient and reinvest any savings in combat power. But after the project documented far more wasteful spending than expected, senior defense officials moved swiftly to kill it by discrediting and suppressing the results.

The report, issued in January 2015, identified “a clear path” for the Defense Department to save $125 billion over five years. The plan would not have required layoffs of civil servants or reductions in military personnel. Instead, it would have streamlined the bureaucracy through attrition and early retirements, curtailed high-priced contractors and made better use of information technology.

The study was produced last year by the Defense Business Board, a federal advisory panel of corporate executives, and consultants from McKinsey and Company. Based on reams of personnel and cost data, their report revealed for the first time that the Pentagon was spending almost a quarter of its $580 billion budget on overhead and core business operations such as accounting, human resources, logistics and property management.

 

Hey look me over, lend me an ear.

 

Your scorebook is defective. Inky has done a tremendous job demonstrating YF's hypocrisy. YF also continues to show that his primary defense of everything Trump does or says is to find a Democrat to talk about. That was a weak argument during the election and it is irrelevant now. Trump won. Let's see if you guys can actually find evidence to support his actions and words.

 

Little green men from Mars will land here and relieve me of doing household chores before the Pentagon suffers an actual decrease in spending money from the fiscal year before.

 

In America, a Thousand Little Castros

 

I didn't attempt to defend the Carson appointment.

A diverse Cabinet is demanded, and so Ben Carson will run HUD.

But, let's not pretend that Julian Castro got the job for reasons other than his ethnic background, and because the Dems wanted to groom him for higher office.

And please, let's not pretend the mayor of San Antonio is a big boy job when it isn't.

 

oop just wishes for a world in which we are all as open-minded and bipartisan.

 

You defended the Carson appointment the way you defend most of Trump's words and actions, by attacking the other side.

By saying you didn't defend the Carson appointment are you saying that it was a bad choice?

 

Actually, I do, but you two will never come close.

 

I ask not because I have a good read on it, but because I'm curious about how you all feel.

What percent chance do you think there will be a return of the military draft under Trump's presidency?

 

I don't know if it will happen, but it should.