{"id":194083,"date":"2008-10-25T06:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T11:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/25\/how-to-know-when-a-burocracy-is-out-of-control\/"},"modified":"2008-10-25T06:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-25T11:09:00","slug":"how-to-know-when-a-burocracy-is-out-of-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/25\/how-to-know-when-a-burocracy-is-out-of-control\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Know When a Burocracy is Out of Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When its budget is growing so fast that auditors cannot keep up..<\/p>\n<p>Case in point, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/news\/article\/dod-spending-growth-outpaces-auditors.html?ESRC=topstories.RSS\">the Pentagon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Government reports are not known for plain language, much less candor. But in a report issued in March, Pentagon Inspector General Claude M. Kicklighter summed up what had been growing increasingly evident for years: Defense spending has been growing so rapidly that auditors can no longer keep track. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">&#8220;We currently are not able to provide sufficient audit coverage of [Department of Defense] acquisition programs given the dollars expended by the department,&#8221; Mr. Kicklighter wrote. &#8220;The rapid growth of the DOD budget since FY 2000 leaves the Department increasingly more vulnerable to the fraud, waste and abuse that undermines the department&#8217;s mission.&#8221; <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And they want to browbeat the next president into increasing their budget even more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When its budget is growing so fast that auditors cannot keep up.. Case in point, the Pentagon: Government reports are not known for plain language, much less candor. But in a report issued in March, Pentagon Inspector General Claude M. Kicklighter summed up what had been growing increasingly evident for years: Defense spending has been &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1010,1008,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-defense-procurement","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}