Pentagon to destroy $1B in ammunition

[ceyko]

Yeah and this train of thought does not benefit the boots on the ground...etc at all.

[CJ]

This will make you need a drink, then. Apparently the military did not even understand how this budgeting system works, because we were always told by everyone from Staff Sergeants on up the Full Birds that we had to spend more so our budget wouldn't be less. In other words, the United States Military is using such a fucked up system for budgeting finances, that the Colonels and Generals in charge of the bases didn't even know why we were spending so much at the end of the year. It is fucked up enough that we are using a budget system which is designed to increased spending, but the really fucked up part is no one who is using it even understands how the damned thing really works. And that is government spending 101.

The reason is the annual increase in budget has been occurring now for 30 years, it's so expected, they consider it normal. So the government looks as a failure to increase the budget as a loss in income. Primarily because they spend/budget the increase before it's even awarded. That's why you hear Obama and his little salacious crumb Carney saying they've "cut the budget by millions" etc.. when in fact they are only reducing the increase.