Pentagon officials are reportedly struggling to devise a plan to spend the extra $500 billion that Donald Trump wants to give the bloated, fraud-ridden agency in the next fiscal year, vindicating criticism of the funding proposal as immensely wasteful.
The Washington Post reported over the weekend that “White House aides and defense officials have run into logistical challenges surrounding where to put the money, because the amount is so large.”
The extra $500 billion, endorsed by the top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, would push annual US military spending to a staggering $1.5 trillion after the Trump administration and congressional Republicans enacted unprecedented cuts to federal nutrition assistance and Medicaid last summer.
Goddamn it, we’ve just invented trains again.
No, trains are stupid. We need cars. Well, we need trucks. And we could get a lot more efficiency if we added more trailers to the trucks and made them bigger so we’d need fewer drivers;. And dedicated lanes for the trucks! And since we’re giving them their own lane, we could optimize it by changing the material on the wheels and the road to resist rolling friction, maybe steel on steel? And since truckers tend to doze off, we could make grooves in the road so they stay on course…
Goddamn it!