After Failing 6 Audits, Pentagon Wants $114 Million For Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Here on the right side of the American political spectrum, we’re used to railing against “the government.”

I’ve done plenty of it in speeches and in writing over the year

Most of the time, I will refer to “the bureaucracy” when I am making a point about how awful the government is. Bureaucracy is, after all, what clogs the arteries of the federal government.

What frustrates those of us who have to function in the real world about the federal bureaucracy is the utter lack of accountability. While the rest of us have to do our jobs well if we want to keep them, federal bureaucrats can be perennial screw-ups and upwardly mobile at the same time.

Money is no object when it comes from the taxpayers and the magic Monopoly printing machine that the government keeps for special occasions. 

A recent classic example of bureaucratic inefficiency can be found at the Pentagon, which has been struggling to show where all of the money it gets is going.

The Hill:

The Pentagon has failed its annual audit for the sixth year in a row, according to the Defense Department’s chief financial officer.

Out of 29 individual sub-audits of the department, only seven passed this year, the same as the year prior, Comptroller Mike McCord told reporters Wednesday.

One other received a “qualified” rating — a step down from passing — while three are ongoing and 18 were given failing grades, with no fraud found, he said.

What a relief, there was no fraud found. That wasn’t the only thing that wasn’t found, by the way. According to the article, “half of DOD’s assets can’t be accounted for.” I guess that we’re supposed to take comfort in the fact that the only problem is incompetence, not fraudsters.

Hot on the heels of this stellar annual failure, the Pentagon has decided to be even more wasteful, frivolous, and ridiculous. 

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