President Barack Obama’s administration promised transparency from the beginning. But a recently discovered study, hidden from the public by the Pentagon, proves his administration is not only secretive but also more fiscally irresponsible than most administrations before him.
Recent interviews and memos obtained by The Washington Post reveal an internal investigation at the Pentagon that discovered $125 billion of the defense budget is going to waste. Instead of logically cutting the budget and reallocating the funds to a department in need, the Pentagon buried the study in order to maintain the outlandishly large budget it currently receives.
The purpose of the study, which was produced by the Defense Business Board and completed in January 2015, was to discover ways to make the administrative side of the Pentagon work more efficiently, and to then apply any savings that amounted to combat power.
A great idea in theory, but when the investigation turned up more potential savings that anticipated, Pentagon officials quickly moved to discredit the results. These high ranking officials feared that if the massive waste was revealed, Congress would cut their budget even more.
The study outlined how the Defense Department could easily save the wasted funds, referring to the overwhelming amount of individuals employed to fill administrative duties.
“The plan would not have required layoffs of civil servants or reductions in military personnel. Instead, it would have streamlined the bureaucracy through attrition and early retirements, curtailed high-priced contractors and made better use of information technology,” The Washington Post reported.
The Pentagon back-office bureaucracy employs 1,014,000 people to support 1.3 million troops on active duty. This department is eating up 23% of the total defense budget.
That’s an astounding portion of the money intended to defend our nation that’s funding desk jobs.
Multiple Pentagon leaders reportedly feared the study would devalue their claims that previous budget cuts resulted in a lack of funds for the military. To protect the integrity of their complaints, they gutlessly imposed security restrictions on information from the study and removed it from the Pentagon website.
President-Elect Donald Trump has reiterated his goal to cut spending and improve our economy, and the revelation of the Pentagon waste could be a great place to start.
He has promised to build the United States military, and this study shows the funds he needs could already be within the defense department budget.
Had Pentagon officials followed through with the suggestions of the study, the $125 billion in waste could have been reallocated for troops, weapons, and rebuilding the nuclear arsenal.
Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work, who ordered the study, told the post that the plan laid out by the report was “unrealistic.”
The military faces the sad truth of never receiving these funds, due to the 2011 Budget Control Act. The act outlines $113 billion in budget cuts for the Pentagon over the next four years, unless Trump and Congress step in and agree to a long-term spending deal by October.
This would place a lot of monetary responsibility in the hands of Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, retired Marine Gen. James Mattis, according to the Post.
This shady cover up is going to create more work for the incoming administration, further proving that Obama’s administration never followed through on their promise of transparency, and are failing to support a successful transition of power.
–The Horn Editorial team
Nothing Obumma’s administration has done surprises me. They’re all sheep who follow what Obumma says, they’ve no minds of their own
No one would guess. Coming from a left wing community activist. It is amazing we even have a country left!
Amen
Where is the IRS? Under penalty of law? Treason espionage anybody say Obamas?
Ask, how does the IRS have jurisdiction over the DOD? Also, how is this treason or espionage? Do you know what the definition of treason is and where its basis in US law?
Are you referring to the Block Party Organizer and Bus Driver for Bath House tours?
He was hoping for a third term. He wrote an executive order telling the Supreme Court to end Presidential term limits.
In January, 2015, President Obama announced his decision to temporarily end presidential term limits by signing an Executive Order, saying, “I’m not seeing any potential presidential candidates on either side of the aisle who are capable of carrying out the task of running the country.” He was citing “poor performance” on the part of a Republican-controlled congress, the struggling economy, and the continuing situation with ISIS, Obama said he feels “obligated” to continue his term in order to steer the country away from crisis “just like Roosevelt.” N A R C I S S I S T.
IrishEyes2c-
i just googled(last night) the terms: “Obama january 2015 executive order term limits” and found nothing verifying your statement; all sources even CLOSE said that this was a “proposed” act on D’OweBama’s part, one as late as May, iirc.
Got a link?
I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS DIRTBAG TRAITOR HASN’T BEEN HUNG YET!
Fire half of these military bureaucrats. Review their work done and if productive keep some rest of them lose any pension. You don’t get a pension for sitting on your rear and I suspect a vast majority of them just do that. One month severance, etc months unemployment and then go find a job. Maybe one that illegal aliens took, you can now get back and shove the illegals out. No food stamps or anything. You stole enough while sitting on your asses.
If you read this article carefully,
You will notice that facts are few and not much detail or outcome. I suspect it is Fake news!
PBS- http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/pentagon-buried-killed-study-potential-cost-savings/
CNBC- http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/06/pentagon-buried-study-that-found-125-billion-in-wasteful-spending-report.html
ACTUAL REPORT FROM THE DEFENSE BUSINESS BOARD- http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/investigations/defense-business-board-study-from-jan-2015-identifying-125-billion-in-waste/2236/?ref
Good!. references. I do not doubt it .
Great job rebutting a now-obviously-moronic opinion.
However, like a friend of mine once said “Anything you find on the internet could have been put there by anybody, who can say anything, and some fools will believe them.”
Of course, she doesn’t let many facts get in the way of her opinion, even when citing youtube videos SHOWING the miscreant in question SPEAKING THE WORDS(e.g. D’OweBama publicly stating he was recruiting and training ISIS, sworn enemies of the United States, which convicts him of treason out of his own mouth – well, if you believe Article 6 applies to sworn public servants, that is).
Awesome come back on the non-believer Horn News!
We the public have never been given all the details on anything. But the the investigation has not been completed either. Obama’s administration is crooked? We already know that!! Meanwhile from Obama all the way down continue to skirt the law and get by with it! Would love to see them all including Obama who thinks he is King in federal prison where they belong!!
I can’t wait.
Obama has no mind of his own – the Establishment Puppet just follows the agenda handed him just like all the Puppets in Media, Banking. Wall Street. Med/Pharma, Industry, Politicians and all controlled by the Establishment
It his plan to weaken the Country and has succeeded!
THIS IS WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU ELECT A STREET ORGANIZER FOR PRESIDENT!!! HE WAS ELECTED BECAUSE THE MEDIA DID NOT VET THIS FOOL THEY MORE INTERESTED IN SOCIAL ENGENERING THEN WHAT WAS GOOD FOR THIS COUNTRY!!!! IN THE 60ths THE DEM-O-RATS LEARNED THAT THEY CAN MOLD THE FUTURE GENERATIONS BY GETTING INVOLVED IN EDUCATION, SO NOW THEY PROFESSORS IN HIGHER EDUCATION WITH TENURE AND CAN’T BE LET GO!!!
Simply because they are stupid effin dumbocrats
There is no way in hell this monster is an American. Everything about him is false.
The U S Government has also been for years robbing funds from the Social Security pool to try to balance the budget!
Top heavy, like any other business. Slots created to cronies. Why are we surprised.
Obama sure would have that 4 billion dollar AIRFORCE ONE built for him and his fat partner.
Don’t call that cow fat
SS was gutted a long time ago!!! When it first started and the gov did not take money from it, like they were not suppose to anyway!!!, SS grew so big at the time that the damn gov said to themselves that all that money won’t get spent, so they started spending it them selves and gutted SS!!!! Since then instead of us getting our own money we put into it and that had should of been collecting interest for the person to build on their SS, the gov spent it and now we pay in for someone else to get!!! The gov stole it from us and no one has been held accountable for it!!!!!!!!! We want our money back that the gov stole from our people a long time ago and that is still stealing from it today!!!
This makes me sick as all hell. You nailed it! I’m surprised Obama our most unworthy leader & biggest disgrace of a President was never impeached at least & more surprised he was never assassinated. It seems as though this was just a big vacation for this joke of a leader. There has to be some way to get him out of office still strip him down to nothing & get a damn job like the rest of the country. It burns my ass knowing he will be rich the rest of his life while I amongst many struggle to pay our way. GO TO HELL OSAMA! Oh did I misspell…
Balderdash!
NO, FELDERKARB!
FELDERKARB, REMEMBER FROM THE “GALACTICA” TV SERIES!
Thanks Ted Kennedy!!!
YES!!!!!! until the 1970s all the Social Security taxes collected were put in the “Social Security Fund”. All the Social Security taxes stolen from the workers prior to that time have never been put back in the Fund. Does anybody ever wonder why the Fund is running short – make the crooks put the money back in the SS Fund with accrued interest.
It started even before the ’70s. Lyndon Johnson was the first president to start stealing from the social security fund to pay for Vietnam and all of his welfare garbage. And every president since him, including Ocrappo has been stealing from it. Hopefully Donald Trump will put a stop to this.
Just to let you know they created a new rule in SS that no one knows about until you file. I was a nurse for 34 years and busted my butt in my younger years to keep my wages high enough to impact my BEST earned years. As I got older and could not work at the bedside, I decreased my wages over the last few years. I got penalized for decreasing my wages before I filed for SS and they average your entire lifetime wages and NOT your BEST, thus resulting in SS monthly income of below poverty level. I lost more then $1000 a month because of that new rule they don’t tell you about. Consider yourself educated now!
Why did they pick SS to rob. Did they not have another fund to rob. What about their retirement funds? Let’s take their money and pay SS back then put all the crooks in prison. Clinton’s and Obuma to start.
MAD DOG, GET IN THERE AND “CLEAN HOUSE” OF THE OBUMMER RATS THAT ARE ATTEMPTING TO HIDE THE MONEY. THIS GUY, “WORK”??, IS NOTHING MORE THAN ONE OF OBUMMERS HAND-PICKED “SHEEPLE”! WONDER HOW MUCH HE POCKETED?
I am not sure, but didn’t bill clinton took 500 million dlls. from the social security trust fund to “balance” the budget when he was president?… and never replaced or return the money to the trust fund. All this crooks belong in guantanamo bay for life!
talking about social security benefits…my husband has been on social security since 2009 and paying his Medicare part B premium ever since But Medicare did not even pay a dime $0 dollars toward his co-pay, medical appointments, lab work etc….He is with VA. when i called CMS/Medicare, they sent my husband a claim form then we received a letter saying that they do not pay the claim cuz VA is also a federal government. VA cannot also send the bill to Medicare, same answer. We are just like shooting the stars! His premium has been set for $148 a month, and zero cents spent by Medicare. So sad when your’e dealing with government. THERE IS A BIG LOOP! VERY Disappointing!
turns out a real joke on taxpayers when we have heard from the liberals how sequestration has debilitated the military
when in fact the dollars are already there and seriously mismanaged. We should welcome this new administration and
its business like approach to managing a fixed income budget for a change.
Absolutely
Improve efficiency and cut waste!
President Zero IS waste. Living garbage.
Amen
he should arrested and jailed for life.
He should be hung from a rope for treason! Why would you want to waste more tax dollars on feeding, housing and keeping him healthy for the rest of his life?
Frank: You think for a moment the black folks in America would put stand for that America would be on Fire within days. With Obama America has been held hostage for 8 years by black orgnizations and people like George Soros. OLD George donated $33 million to the Black lives Matter group in order to create havoc across America.
JB.
LEFTIST MOVE ON .ORG IS FULLY FUNDED BY GEORGE SOROS AMONG OTHER ANTI AMERICA PROGRAMS.
And obama wants a third term? He is the biggestt idiot to ever reside in the whitehouse. he has no idea about what he is doing.
I really doubt that he was worth a crap as a coummunity organizer. He just drew a paycheck. Sc**w him
HE KNOWS WHAT HE IS DOING.IF IT IS ANTI AMERICAN AND PRO MUSLIM HE WILL PROMOTE IT.
Correct he Onumbnuts and lerch Kerry just screwed this country again the made a deal with Australia to send 2500 immigrants to Australia from a south American country for 2500 Muslims two that are on the terrorist watch list
If there is no one Jailed for this , It will open many other doors -Obama and Hillary for Prison
You can thank Johnson for steeling the money from SSI
You state the $$billions in military waste could be used for creating more nukes. Wow! What a great idea! Between the US and Russia, they have over 75000 nukes. And you say we need more! I say you are f—–king crazy.
Terrorist barak should be arrested and put in prison for the rest of his miserable life for what he’s done to America! And really a whole bunch of congress people allowed it. They should be held accountable, as well!
Obama has made a fool out of the American people, it’s beyond belief how the voters first elected him then gave him a second term. WHY didn’t they learn from the first four years he didn’t and still doesn’t like American from his first day in office he started to tear down our way of life…In and interview in early 2008 he admitted he was a Muslin and has been practicing that faith in our White House….this is on the level of disgrace of Bill Clinton having oral sex in the Oval Office. Everything he has done is to destroy our country all while taking expensive vacation on Tax payers money to the sum of $89 million dollars. Refugees admitted to America this year alone is closing on 100,000 to be mixed into our way of live…no they continue to what to change USA to their ways….all along the plan of Obama. Everybody is surprised of his actions fool us once, fool us twice how did we allow all this to happen…surprises me……Trump if anything loves America and will work to bring us back from the hell Obama has taken us too.
Obama was put into office by black racists and white fools.
DONT WORRY OBUMBA AN HRC WILL ESCAPE THE LONG ARM OF THE LAW, RICH FOLKS DONT GO TO JAIL IN AMERICA, THEY PUT THEM ON A PROGRAM AT THE TAXPAYERS EXPENSE, THEN THEY DEDUCT ALL THAT FROM THEIR TAXES, THATS THE PROGRESSIVE WAY.
And have the kid run the fraudulent charitable foundation courtesy of foreign governments who practice many things barbaric by western standards and Coke PEPSI and KELLOGS
obuma the traitor obuma the fool worst so call president ever.
Obama may be a traitor but the american voters were the fools who voted him in…. diversity better known as (hard core) as many other companies tried at one time before they closed up was subsidized by the government. it was a hard lesson to learn of the division this administration has caused, but all in all we believe the right man is in as our new CIC and will end the mess the last eight years have caused this country..
Welcome to the white house President Trump and VP Mike Pence
Just like his “Good Bye” Foreign Policy speech of yesterday misleading and full of untruths which is exactly the way he conducted business while in the White House. Tell me only what I want to hear that everything is good and what an outstanding President I am – not the joke everyone knows me to be.
Some of us don’t think he’s a joke; we think he’s evil!
Jeanette – I meant it in the a most uncomplimentary way!
During Obama’s Administration, our National debt rose > $11 TRILLION (not Billion – TRILLION). That amount is more than all previous administrations COMBINED. Obama’s erratic, doubtful, and very QUESTIONABLE actions against U.S. Terror no doubt put the Defense Dept. into the untenable position of keeping their charge: defending our beloved Country. We are still in 2016, and if we sustained a coordinated attack on multiple U.S. cities concurrently, or during any OTHER part of 2016, citizenry would be DEMANDING the Defense Dept. react. They HAD to be in the position to react instantly to our Country’s safety needs. That requires readiness, and readiness cost money! So far, Thank God, that has not occurred. I’d LOVE to see an ACTUAL Budgeted vs.NEEDED spending in EVERY section of Obama’s Administration. I’ll bet it would collectively ‘choke a horse’! TRANSPARANT? THAT DOESN’T EVEN PASS THE ‘GIGGLE’ TEST!!
Gail I loved your comment! So true.
And to think, I just this morning heard Trump say (in a speech from yesterday, probably) that he LIKES Obama, and that Obama loves America and wants to do what is best for the country.
I hope that that statement is part of a strategy and not how Trump really feels; the last thing we need now is for him to crumble and not hold Obama and Co responsible for the massive fraud and destruction they have perpetrated against America.
Are all of you surprised by the Obama team? When you consider all of the KINGS action over the past 8 years we are lucky to have anything left as a country. However, You got remember he has about 98 % of the Black Folks across America who not only supports him and believes everything he tells them. Obama isn’t going any wher he is staying in the DC Area and use the black support and other George Soros supported black orgnizations to make all must impossible for Trump to get any thing accomplished.
Jim Bennett
Barack Hussein Obama the Blowhard was going to be the most transparent administration in history. Just more lies from this LIAR-in-CHIEF, He lies about everything, unable to tell the truth about anything. Oblowhard’s patient protection and affordable care act
That is unafordable. A K A Obama care, his clam of having 20 million people have health insurance, another lie. They may have an insurance card but that don’t mean they can use it. When you have to pay those large deductibles from $3000.00 to 5500.00 before Oblowhard Care covers anything. Remember Jonathan Gruber, said just lie to the stupid voters they won’t know.
And Plosi we have to pass it so we know what is in it, what a joke that was/is.
He can’t function without LYING, in his last State of the Union Speech he lied 10 times in that hour. I fact checked that one.
He sure knows how to lie, Will be glad when he is gone.
It certainly doesn’t count the 7 trillon that came up missing at the Pentagon during Rumsfelds reign.
YOU ARE G YOU DON’T HAVE A CLUE ABOUT.RASPING AT STRAWS TO PROMOTE A LIBERAL AND LEFTIST VIEW OF WHICH
YOU ARE GRASPING AT STRAWS.YOU KNOW NOTHING BUT LIBERAL TRIPE.NOBODY BELIEVES YOU.
All the truth and the facts about Obama and Hillary Clinton should be told and plastered all over the news for all the world to see and all the persons that are involved too be included to set an example to the world how corruption shall be dealt with and that is for them to be sent to prison forever. They made the choice to do evil now they need to pay the price for their wickedness. Its all about them and not about the people. Their pride and power will kill them and God is watching all this. Corruption corruption corruption will be exposed and death will follow because they are not doing it Gods way.
THE BARAK HUSSAIN OBAMA ADMINISTRATION OVER THE LAST 8 YEARS IS CRIMINAL. iT WON’T HAPPEN BUT HE SHOULD BE TRIED FOR TREASON FOR ALL THE UN OR ANTI AMERICAN DECISIONS AND POLICIES HE HAS IMPLEMENTED .. AND THEN YOU HAVE THE CORRUPT IRS, STATE DEPT (WHAT WAS IT, $600 MILLION DISAPPEARED) AND THE JUSTICE DEPT WHAT A JOKE THAT PLACE TURNED OUT TO BE… THIS COUNTRY WAS SAVED BY THIS ELECTION, PRAISE THE LORD.
THE IMMIGRATION AND SUPREME COURT JUDGES WOULD HAVE BEEN A PROBLEM FOR THIS COUNTRY FOR MANY, MANY ;YEARS. SOME OF THE OTHER THINGS LIKE GUNS, ABORTION ETC COULD BE REVERSED BUT NOT IMMIGRATION AND THE COURT.. ;THE REASON WHY OBAMA GOT AWAY WITH ALL THE BAD THINGS WAS BECAUSE EVERYONE ONE WAS AFRAID OF BEING CALLED A RACIST.
Where there’s smoke , there’s fire. Who knows what other examples of waste will be uncovered?
The19 trillion dollars debt was created by such examples of waste and incompetence as this one.
They could have and should have increased the wages of all the enlisted personnel, many have to depend on food stamps to survive. It is insane and disgraceful the way the fat cats in Washington treat our military and our veterans. They spend more to provide for the “refugees” then they spend to care for the people tasked with defending our country and the ones that served our country.
The past and present military members should come first and foremost.
Send Obama the bill for all the tax payer money he spent for nothing. I’m for takeing away his presidential retirement and medical services and secret service that presidents get when they are out of office. That man is not worth anything.
Yes and I agree Barack Obama the Blowhard shouldn’t get anything for what he has wasted in his eight years in office. He is sure not president material,A three year old orphan could have done a better job than that brain dead
joker.
Lets not forget that the muslim gave himself and all ex presidents a million dollar a year raise!!!! Pure bullshit.
How many out in the real world believe we need a beaurocrat for every 1.25 military personel we have? This is only one waste exposer compared to thousands of others that can be accounted for, we as citizens have to take back control of our government & remember these so called elite are actually only our employees, some need to be replaced many just need to be fired.
and when you consider how much is computerized now days, one back office person should be able handle quite few of the front line personal. My bet is that during WWII the ratio was much higher and they handled everything by paper!
Jan 20, 2017 can’t come fast enough! Drain the swamp and let’s start with that $125 billion! And Romney said Trump was a phony, a scam and a fraud. Was he confused? Maybe he meant Obama.
Can’t wait to celebrate a new era, a new America…America first! Let’s create jobs, cut waste, fraud & abuse, balance our budget, reduce the national debt and secure our borders.
A true leader fills his cabinet and staff with experts who may know more than their leader…because they are an expert in the specialty. (i.e. Jack Kennedy) obama surrounded himself with a herd of “incompetents” because obama wanted to be the brightest star…and surely enough, the herd followed the leader down the drain….and hopefully TRUMP can drain it…wish they would stay stuck down there in their MUCK and never surface again. Do I have to see and hear obama for the rest of my life? Could we find a way to send him as ambassador to Kenya…or maybe Syria? for life
trump has a lot to do. we should have a month to remember how obama ruined our country every year
Every federal agency needs to have its budget examined and wasteful spending needs to be eliminated.
No surprise here, big government is excellent at ripping off the people, the money they could have saved could have went to the VA. This is what happens when Americans choose party over country.
Obama is the worst president in the history of USA. Glad his term is over. We never trusted him
Where are those millions of dollars that Hillary “lost” in the middle east? Anyone else would have to pony up and pay it back but not the Clinton’s. I would say it probably was tip money to the Clinton’s and currently resides in their Clinton Foundation bank account. I still say the government should go after her and the money, it was not hers to reallocate, or lose.
Refund voters with checks from Govt waste since 1980 or 1990.
From waste source & place X% into Natl Dent drawdown.
Each citizen gets X% check per month from Govt waste.
120B X 30 M citizens legal.
& then add more.
see CAGW,org
First of all, the money extorted from Soc. Sec. will likely NEVER be repaid by anyone. There are no funds sufficient to repay it to be found, except maybe in the Clinton Foundation. We could always demand that Hillary have her 8 billion + returned from where she sent it in Qatar to hide it for herself. But short of that, the money is long gone. Obviously the Senators, who claim to be unable to live decently on $174,000.00/yr, can’t afford to repay it. Which, by the way, I think is a crock of baloney. And yes, Obama HAS been on an 8-yr. vacation….. using Air Force One to travel the world, going to dinner parties and playing golf. Am sure hotels were regularly charged to the US taxpayer also. Also certain his daughters needed designer gowns several times over his terms, because we have no stores that carry anything expensive enough to satisfy the First Family’s couture requirements. I also suspect that I do not have the only family that turns to Grandparents for occasional help looking after the children, and that I am not the only Grandma who will NOT be getting over $140,000./yr. pension for life for having done so, nor have I lived in a totally catered to household for the past 8 yrs. while doing it! The Obama Mother-in-law is fortunate indeed. It sounds as if all of us are showing some degree of dissatisfaction with Mr. Obama’s view of how to do the job. How can that be, I wonder, when he says himself that he ‘deserves’ a monument to his presidency, and is fearing the President-elect Trump will undo his entire “legacy” of change. Well, now there, I DO have an opinion. I DO hope to GOD that Trump can totally undo his entire legacy, but am concerned that it perhaps is not very likely. As long as George Soros is alive, nursing his God-complex, our country is not yet safe from attempts to destroy it. That’s what that man lives for is to destroy America, to destroy democracy, to destroy Americans and our ‘fanciful notion’ that we have rights and freedoms, with his ultimate goal of seeing each country in his
way to come crashing down so that he can dictate like a King or a Tsar or a Sultan to the entire WORLD! The most legendary conquerors throughout history could not even BEGIN to match George Soros’ lust for power!! God Help Us!
lil o’s plan has been to loot as much money and destroy all things good in the US.
More incompetence by the Obama administration, what a surprise. Obama should go back to doing his bake sales on the street. This will never happen again, he never talks about Chicago, let alone go there.