Chronicling Pentagon's Financial Woes
By Tom Shoop | Tuesday, April 15, 2008 | 03:40 PM
By Tom Shoop | Tuesday, April 15, 2008 | 03:40 PM
It's not exactly news that the Defense Department can't get its financial house in order. Still, this piece from Portfolio is a pretty damning indictment of the slow pace of improvements on this front.
Almost a decade ago, Government Executive was reporting that the Pentagon was making progress in financial reform. Four years ago we listed Defense among the agencies said to be on brink of a financial breakthrough. As recently as last fall, Defense comptroller Tina Jonas insisted that the department's financial management was better than perceived. It would be nice if the Pentagon bean-counters could clear the hurdle of being able to produce a clean financial statement, if only because of the symbolic value such an achievement would have.
Comments
George Washington's Farwell Address in part:
"...avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, where, under any form of government, are inauspcious to liberty and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican liberty."
George Washington probably counted his bullets carefully.
In my opinion, neocons have a strange theory of military accounting, that is hostile to true Republican liberty and will go down in history as reckless and inauspcious to world wide liberty.
Mark St. Denis | Thursday, April 17, 2008 | 08:51 PMAnother waste of public funds. Bean counters wanting accounting of bullets shot, missiles fired. They fail to understand that stuff is lost in war and nobody is running around counting how many bullets they fired that day in Iraq
dan ketter | Wednesday, April 16, 2008 | 11:46 AMAnd where has Paul Brinkley of BTA been? running around Iraq making and breaking promises. Not doing his BTA job, guy should be fired
worthless
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