Our gloriously inept, unethical and public-looting Pentagon — strikes again

© 2020 Peter Free

 

23 September 2020

 

 

American institutional racketeering never takes a break

 

These are the bureaucratically entrenched termites, who have been eating away at the American societal foundation for decades:

 

 

The Pentagon redirected most of its $1 billion in pandemic funding to defense contractors who exchanged the money for jet engine parts, body armor, dress uniforms and other military needs, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday. 

 

The CARES Act passed by Congress in March granted the Department of Defense $1 billion to both prevent and get ready to respond to the coronavirus, but the Post reported that in the weeks that followed, hundreds of millions of the taxpayer money was instead utilized to obtain military supplies.

 

The Pentagon has also requested that $11 billion be provided in a potential new stimulus bill being debated by Congress.

 

Months after the funding was allocated, department lawyers concluded the money could be used for defense production, including projects that had little to do with responding to the pandemic, the Post reported.

 

The Democratic-led House Appropriations Committee said in a report that the Defense Department’s spending on money allocated from the CARES Act was not distributed as intended.

 

© 2020 Justine Coleman, Pentagon redirected pandemic funds to defense contractors, The Hill (22 September 2020)

 

 

Oh joy — such elite intelligences run that place

 

The Pentagon did nothing at all to prepare the nation for COVID, despite the fact national security is arguably its exact bailiwick.

 

And then, when our equally mindless Congress prompted the Pentagon to protect American troops from the same coronavirus, these military leadership geniuses spent the money on toys and looking good.

 

What crew of sterlingly gifted folk.

 

We should bedazzle them all with shoulder-borne stars and trillions more dollars.

 

 

The moral? — Is it good to be part of the American leadership mafia?

 

The Pentagon protects us from the propaganda-generated monsters in our dreams and essentially nothing else. What could be finer?

 

Thank goodness that we citizens are here to support such a fine body of parasitic command leeches with our spindly wallets.

 

Institutionalized graft is the American way.