• @DragonTypeWyvern
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    163 months ago

    They knew if they didn’t use up the budget they’d lose it for the next year

    • Queen HawlSera
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      13 months ago

      If they were a business or a public school maybe. But it’s an intelligence agency in a nation that gives its military so much money that said military is begging for cuts, but no one’s listening because “Well I own stock in a weapons company and I’m in congress, lol.”

      • PugJesusOP
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        103 months ago

        DoD: “We have a recruitment problem, not an equipment problem. Allocate money properly please?”

        Congress: “Where’s the profit in that? You can’t get kickbacks from the enlisted!”

        • @frezik@midwest.social
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          113 months ago

          One of my “favorite” stories of that is CVN-76. Russ Feingold was in Congress in the 90s saying “guys, the Navy doesn’t even want this thing, and even in a two theater war, we can get along fine with 5 or 6 supercarriers instead of 12.”

          It goes ahead anyway. Do you know what they named that monument to fiscal conservatism? The USS Ronald Reagan.

          • @DragonTypeWyvern
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            53 months ago

            At least they got the shitting itself in public part right.

      • JackbyDev
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        23 months ago

        This is more about a specific office or department within than the agency as a whole.