But I'm a human being who lives on the earth and can't figure out how 850 billion dollars to a department means that the rank and file still have to be on food stamps. Like to me, that's corruption kind of wild. And this is going to lead us into a conversation about taxes and the IRS and the money we're throwing at it and just the clown show that has become our government. Especially from a monetary and fiscal standpoint, there's a lot of waste Fraud and Abuse within a system.

Audits and waste Fraud abuse are not the same thing. so let's decompose these. Please educate me on sure. So an audit is exactly what you just described.

Which is do I know what was delivered to which place right? The ability to pass an audit or in the fact that the Dod has not passed on is not suggestive of ways for abuse. That is completely false right there. Literally just said. The fact that the Dod cannot pass an audit is not suggestive of waste.

Fraud and Abuse can not pass an audit wild. So so what is it now is the question of it's suggestive that we can't We don't have an accurate inventory that we can pull up of what we have where. that is not the same as saying we can't do that because waste Fraud and Abuse has occurred. So in my world, yeah, that's waste.

How is that waste If I give you a billion dollars and you can't tell me what happened to it, That to me is wasteful that that means 100 responsible. But if you can't tell me where it went then what Am I supposed to think that it was wasted and there was probably fraud interviews? It's not. Look I'm not I'm not saying this is on you and that you caused this, but I think it's it's a tough argument and it's so defensive. So defensive to an organization that can't pass an audit and tell you where that money went.

Like I think most people would consider that somewhere in the realm of waste, fraud, or abuse because they would wonder why that money isn't well accounted for and especially when they see food insecurity on military bases and they see you talk about that because I understand I think it doesn't really bother, it really bothers everyone connected. Okay, I think when I tell you that story, tell me how you're thinking about that. When I see a state department get a certain amount of money and a military budget be 10 times that, and I see a struggle within government to get people like more basic services and then that department that got that? I mean we got out of 20 years of war and the Pentagon got a 50 billion dollar raise like that's shocking to me now. I may not understand exactly the ins and outs and and the incredible uh Magic of an audit, but I'm a human being who lives on the earth and can't figure out how 850 billion dollars to a department means that the rank and file still have to be on food stamps.

Like to me, that's fucking corruption. I'm sorry, it obviously is. It's like 100 in your mind and if you think like that's like a crazy agenda for me to have I Really think that that's institutional thinking and that it's not looking at the day-to-day reality of the people that you call the greatest fighting force in the world. So I just again I Get back to this idea of like I'm not looking to pick a fight with you but I am surprised at that.

The reaction to these questions are you don't know what an audit is Bucko like That's just weird. She's so incredibly defensive, like she she had no good comeback. We have to do like. Just because we can't account for things, doesn't mean that it's always.

That's pretty close to the definition. I mean he brought up the analogy of if I give you a billion dollars and you can't tell me where you put it, well waste it And then her argument is along the lines of well hang on because we didn't audit it. You can't call it a waste because we didn't audit it so we don't know if it was wasted. it might have been used properly.

That's a crazy argument to have. And also the sad thing is here, if you're looking at the Department of Defense the billion dollars that he this is just kind of an example. That's an understatement in real time right now. I Believe it's the Pentagon and please correct me if I'm wrong on this cannot account for over a trillion dollars.

That's crazy and they're just shrugging their shoulders like that's a good one. Don't ask us about it, but that's a it's a good question and we will get back to you in a couple business days like that's insane and then it's just so so defensive. And as soon as you get defensive, whether maybe they understand it at a different level, Maybe the general populace is missing something here. But as soon as you get defensive like that, the average person as Jon Stewart alluded to living on planet Earth All of a sudden we all just think you're getting defensive.

When we're asking you legitimate questions about where our money's going, it seems like waste, fraud, greed, collusion. Like when you get defenses like oh, you're clearly hiding something Blows my absolute mind that this isn't a skit. this is real life allegedly in the most powerful country in the world. Absolutely blows my mind.