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Incredible & Mind boggling… we cannot run out of exclamatory phrases to express our great dismay!
The results of this eye-opening report are treated by many as sadly hopeless and irreparable, while we all go about our daily lives, juggling how to deal with inflation that hits so many so hard as we approach Thanksgiving - both the middle and working classes struggling, seniors dependent on fixed incomes, young people seeking employment that just might enable them to save enough for a home downpayment or retirement some day - with all of us trying to manage finances as we diligently pay our taxes, up until now with the begrudging sensing there is no viable means of changing the status quo. This DOD audit failure, we all know, is but a symptom of the extensive rot that lies just below the surface of many such federal government agencies and programs.
Imagine if you ran a company in the private sector this way? Imagine if you had shareholders to report to?!
If you were operating a publicly traded company in this cavalier manner, there would be all hell to pay.
Both the Securities & Exchange Commission and the Internal Revenue Service would be knocking at your door or bursting through it, fully armed with multiple warrants, bringing criminal and civil charges entailing severe penalties, as well as massive civil fines - and the unpaid accrued interest alone would place you in bankruptcy while the lack of transparency and accountability would entail many years in the penitentiary. You’d be watching the world through the bars for long stretches of time.
Those serious consequences are the types of repercussions that individuals and private entities or stockholder-owned enterprises would suffer from such continuous failures exhibited here at the DOD… and we surmise elsewhere in government (despite “passing” the audit process).
Yes - we do understand that the rules of the game cannot apply readily to government agencies, plus we know that the sheer enormity of the DOD and all of its divisions and multiple layers of contractors represent a whale (or many pods of whales) so massive that there is nothing comparable in the realm of non-government commerce or enterprise.
Yet.. we also recognize there is much room for actionable improvement. A genuine effort to increase efficiency is desperately needed and we are crying out for it across the nation. The new DOGE dept. oversight may be a genuine step in the right direction. However, even under Ronald Reagan’s commitment to make government smaller, he failed in that attempt. And - the issue is one that keeps returning — namely, one can impose notable changes by executive decree, however those very changes can be swiftly undone by future executive fiats, as we have seen - with see-saw results and without ever uprooting the waste inherent in such bureaucracies.
Therefore, the only way to ensure the longevity of imposing radical transformations in federal government policies and behavior is through the lengthier process of passing amendments to address these matters.
This is why Convention of States is the best and likely the sole method of ensuring restoration of some level of continuous order and discipline into Washington DC’s bloated runaway system of government.
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At Convention of States, we strongly uphold and protect the Constitution and encourage all interested parties to research us, sign our petition (calling for amendment topic proposals supported by a majority of fellow citizens).
The 3 topics/issues to be addressed in an Article V Convention are as follows:
1. Term Limits for Congress & Bureaucrats in Washington DC
2. Fiscal Responsibility
3. Reduction in the size and scope of the federal government
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Note: These are the author’s thoughts on this subject - and they do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Convention of States (national), its members or affiliates.
