Cleaning Up Wasteful Spending

[Winter_Sucks]

Originally Posted by momonkey

Why is it a different topic?

Because the topic is the waste, fraud, and abuse in the Pentagon budget and a way to try and fix it.

[Winter_Sucks]

Originally Posted by Isitmeorarethingsnuts?

What would be so difficult in just cutting say...7% from each departments budget and making them decipher their own waste. Then have a commision go in in maybe 5 years to try to find more waste. If they can't get rid of their own waste, let an independant commision show them how it's done.

The waste is ridiculous and would solve our problems while affecting very few.

Because a simple to answer to a complex issue usually never works. Just cutting the Pentagon 7% does nothing to make what they are doing any more efficient. They would still be wasting some money, just at a slightly smaller scale.

[CancerianMoonPrincess]

Originally Posted by Winter_Sucks

Because a simple to answer to a complex issue usually never works. Just cutting the Pentagon 7% does nothing to make what they are doing any more efficient. They would still be wasting some money, just at a slightly smaller scale.

Then how about a gradually increasing cut as time goes by? How about starting at 10% cuts everywhere and gradually building up until about 45% or more?

[Winter_Sucks]

Originally Posted by CancerianMoonPrincess

Then how about a gradually increasing cut as time goes by? How about starting at 10% cuts everywhere and gradually building up until about 45% or more?

Just cutting things across the board is too simple. A complete review and audit of everything a department and program is doing is the better way to go. We should be going about it as what do we need and what can we get rid of. Whatever is left over should be reformed and streamlined as much as possible. Then after that we should balance the budget and pay for it without borrowing. I'm talking about across the board.