Pentagon Fails Fifth Audit — And Yet Congress Approves $847 Billion War Budget

The black box of the military-industrial complex can’t find 60% of its assets

Image by David Mark from Pixabay

I love the expression, ‘a national budget is a moral document.’ When applied to the United States, it reveals Uncle Sam’s psychotic nature and the aggressive empire hiding in plain sight. One doesn’t spend more on their military than the next nine countries combined and then pretend they’re playing defense.

The worst part for me is the lack of anger on the issue in America. The Pentagon hoovering up more than fifty percent of discretionary spending should be seen as completely unacceptable.

The military budget rapidly approaching one trillion dollars while the child tax credit or federal school lunch programs are ended due to ‘lack of funds’ should have people enraged and in the streets.

And in any semi-functioning nation, the freaking Pentagon failing its fifth consecutive audit and not being able to track trillions of dollars should have televised Congressional hearings, Defense Department officials being held responsible, and a fully transparent citizen-led accounting of what holes those hundreds of billions a year have and continue to disappear into.