Cut "Defense" Spending? Never!

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.

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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.

  WaPo

How far would $125 billion go to restocking pilfered Social Security funds? To universal single payer health care? To improvement in public education or free college tuition? Oh my God! Did I just say "free stuff"?

But some Pentagon leaders said they fretted that by spotlighting so much waste, the study would undermine their repeated public assertions that years of budget austerity had left the armed forces starved of funds.

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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.

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So the plan was killed.

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For the military, the major allure of the study was that it called for reallocating the $125 billion for troops and weapons.

What this country needs is more armaments.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.