Purpose questions 2
Media demons are focusing today on an "audit" of the Pentagon that found waste.

First: Media and politicians ALWAYS want us to focus on fine details of methods and numbers. Media and politicians NEVER ask questions about purpose. Nobody ever asks WHY we are attacking Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria and Ukraine and Persia and Russia, which should be the ONLY question. Instead, we are required to "debate" how to make the aggressive pointless mass murder MORE EFFICIENT.

Second: This is classic Parkinson. The audit itself consumes time and effort, "justifying" a raise in the budget to cover the added activities. The useless "reforms" after the audit will consume vastly more time and effort, "justifying" even more budget and workforce.

Third and overwhelmingly more important: WAR IS WASTE BY DEFINITION. Bullets and bombs and tanks are produced by the billions, then destroyed in combat. This fact used to be openly understood by politicians and economists, who openly advocated more war to create more pointless consumption.

If you want less waste, you should want less war. That's all.

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Later thought: We've actually switched to a different style of pointless consumption. Our soldiers who are killing innocent civilians don't get new vehicles or equipment, and they don't get billions of bullets. They have to improvise armor on old trucks, and they have to account for every bullet to lawyers and auditors who are embedded with the troops.

Our consumption goes to huge "hi-tech" weapons systems, stealth fighters and cyberdrones, which don't work and couldn't be useful if they did work. Money goes mostly for development, partly for construction. After each trillion-dollar airplane is built, it stays in storage because it is completely unusable.

In other words, we've switched from spendthrifts to meth-addled hoarders. We're throwing money into projects that never reach completion and "weapons" that sit around and rust until a flood or hurricane destroys them.

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