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re: Pentagon spending - on crabs, salmon and 1,800 dollar chairs
Posted on 3/10/26 at 11:23 pm to OweO
Posted on 3/10/26 at 11:23 pm to OweO
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You seriously think $2M on king crabs and $15M on ribeyes is okay?
There's over 2 million active, NG, and reserve duty service members in the US military. The US defense budget is $840 BILLION.
Some of you are literally mentally incapable of seeing the big picture. Whats a lot to to you is not a lot to the DoW.
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Posted on 3/10/26 at 11:31 pm to northshorebamaman
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The question is why something as basic as feeding the troops would show up during the September “use it or lose it” spending rush that every vet recognizes. If the story is true, that’s something that should already be covered in the normal operating budget.
My problem with the article is how do we know this was actually use it or lose it expenses and not a monthly expense. The author paints that picture but by referring to it as such but then only states they spent x on these luxury items in September.
How much do they typically spend a month these items? What were they used for? Without the answers to these questions I'll keep my outrage in check.
Hell this could have been expenses to stock the shelves at the commissaries across the world. We have no idea without more information.
This post was edited on 3/10/26 at 11:41 pm
Posted on 3/10/26 at 11:48 pm to The Pirate King
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Some things literally can't be produced at a faster pace. You need to stockpile them.
Like crab legs and ribeye.
Posted on 3/10/26 at 11:55 pm to OweO
Posted on 3/10/26 at 11:56 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
Posted on 3/11/26 at 12:02 am to The Pirate King
quote:You sound like a woman defending a $200 Dollar Tree splurge.
There's over 2 million active, NG, and reserve duty service members in the US military. The US defense budget is $840 BILLION.
Some of you are literally mentally incapable of seeing the big picture. Whats a lot to to you is not a lot to the DoW.
"What's a million here or there?"
Posted on 3/11/26 at 12:07 am to Eurocat
I’m all for treating our military right while in service.
If we’re gonna complain, let’s complain about 4K a month a guy gets for his 4 years and now is on disability because he has aches in his knees
If we’re gonna complain, let’s complain about 4K a month a guy gets for his 4 years and now is on disability because he has aches in his knees
Posted on 3/11/26 at 12:13 am to Dirt Booger
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I’m all for treating our military right while in service.
If we’re gonna complain, let’s complain about 4K a month a guy gets for his 4 years and now is on disability because he has aches in his knees
This is an interesting comment. You're all for "treating them right" while in service but use an absurd exaggeration to justify telling them to frick off afterwords.
And y'all try to paint me as "anti-military,"
eta- I'm 100% combat related disabled and I don't get close to 4k a month. frick off with that.
This post was edited on 3/11/26 at 12:15 am
Posted on 3/11/26 at 12:17 am to Eurocat
Nobody was thrifty when Fauci was the highest paid employee in the federal government.
Or when the decision was made to devalue every dollar in existence by printing $8 trillion in a single year.
Or when the decision was made to devalue every dollar in existence by printing $8 trillion in a single year.
Posted on 3/11/26 at 12:24 am to Dirt Booger
BTW, that piano purchase you're defending would pay three 100% disabled combat vets you think are leaches their entire yearly compensation. But sure, you give a frick about soldiers. 
Posted on 3/11/26 at 5:19 am to northshorebamaman
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"What's a million here or there?"
It seems you're incapable of understanding basic context and the big picture.
They will most assuredly hit the budget cap this year with what's going on in Iran. Good thing they didn't shrink the budget to save a few pennies to appease people who think like you.
Posted on 3/11/26 at 6:27 am to Eurocat
So it is simply business as usual, time honored tradition, nothing to see here,,,,,,,, wait, it’s Trump & Pete,,,, crucify them.
Our local Police Dept does the same thing. Leftover money becomes ‘Christmas Holiday Patrols’. Overtime for everybody.
Government at it’s best.
Our local Police Dept does the same thing. Leftover money becomes ‘Christmas Holiday Patrols’. Overtime for everybody.
Government at it’s best.
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As Open the Books explained, the Pentagon tries to spend as much of its congressionally allocated budget as possible at the end of every fiscal year because of federal “use-it-or-lose-it” rules. If the department ends the year with leftover funds, it risks having its budget reduced the following year.
Posted on 3/11/26 at 6:51 am to Eurocat
Why is it "spend it or lose it" and not just "spend it or roll it over into the next year"?
Only reason I can see is for planning future budgets where they think another department needs more funding (they don't) and they go down the list and say oh hey we can cut here because we didn't blow the budget on king crab and actually have a ton left over. Now this other department will have enough to slam back some ribeyes and sushi.
Only reason I can see is for planning future budgets where they think another department needs more funding (they don't) and they go down the list and say oh hey we can cut here because we didn't blow the budget on king crab and actually have a ton left over. Now this other department will have enough to slam back some ribeyes and sushi.
Posted on 3/11/26 at 7:04 am to Eurocat
I haven’t read the whole thread, but I’m going to assume it’s already been mentioned that this is nothing new, and it’s customary that steak, lobster, crab legs are fed to the troops before deployments and or while down range for morale.
This has been customary for as long as I can remember.
This has been customary for as long as I can remember.
Posted on 3/11/26 at 7:07 am to touchdownjeebus
The food is not the problem. The spending of $93 billion in one month is the primary cause for concern.
Budgetary spending is an absolute joke that multiple administrations have had ample opportunity to address.
After watching many seasons of real housewives, I have learned that it is real easy to spend money that you did not earn.
Budgetary spending is an absolute joke that multiple administrations have had ample opportunity to address.
After watching many seasons of real housewives, I have learned that it is real easy to spend money that you did not earn.
This post was edited on 3/11/26 at 7:10 am
Posted on 3/11/26 at 7:20 am to Rouge
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The food is not the problem. The spending of $93 billion in one month is the primary cause for concern.
It’s the end of the fiscal year dump. You’ll see the same thing across the board, in multiple agencies. Use it or lose it.
This post was edited on 3/11/26 at 7:22 am
Posted on 3/11/26 at 7:21 am to Eurocat
Did all the food go to the troops serving our country? If so I’m okay with them getting great meals.
If a bunch of pentagon bureaucrats ate that food or meals for contractors, I’m not good with it
If a bunch of pentagon bureaucrats ate that food or meals for contractors, I’m not good with it
Posted on 3/11/26 at 7:22 am to Dicky
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Why is it "spend it or lose it" and not just "spend it or roll it over into the next year"?
Another poster summarized it. Due to appropriations law those funds have a 1 year life/expiration.
Can we count on Congress to change the laws towards being considered common sense? Not a snowballs chance in hell.
Posted on 3/11/26 at 7:23 am to touchdownjeebus
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It’s the end of the fiscal year dump. You’ll see the same thing across the board, in multiple agencies. Use it or lose it.
As I just said, that level of fiscal irresponsibility is the problem. The motivation behind the budgetary spending rules is to spend it all or fear losing budget for the next year. Why don't we encourage savings or reallocation to other projects (if you HAVE to spend it) instead of this? Absolutely frivolous spending just to maintain budgets?
That money could have been moved into infrastructure projects that had the ability to pay for upwards of 30 Bridges across the country that are in desperate need of replacement.
This post was edited on 3/11/26 at 7:25 am
Posted on 3/11/26 at 7:24 am to Eurocat
Song as old as time - frivolous spending
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