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.”
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.
They knew if they didn’t use up the budget they’d lose it for the next year
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.”
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!”
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.
At least they got the shitting itself in public part right.
This is more about a specific office or department within than the agency as a whole.