Lindsey Graham is talking about the US Military intervening around the world, not protecting our way of life at home. If we could only stop the fraud and the waste, and limit CEO compensation, that will be a great start. Our way of life at home is in crisis. We need to focus on our citizens here at home for awhile.
Take away the revolving door. lobbyists and politicians shluld not recruit from each other. Term limits , no super pacs, no foreign money contributions to campaigns.
@@GaleLD i would not go that far down the socialists hole. They should not be able to actively trade nor manage their portfolios while in office. Blind trust, or take a break from the financial markets until out of office.
Lindsay has no ideals or moral guidance system other than self-preservation, the perpetual pursuit of power, and rewarding his corporate johns. He's a fabulous politician, but a horrific leader and a reprehensible human being.
Lindsey Graham: The world is scary, we only spend more on the military than the next 10 countries. We need to be spending more than the all the counties in the world combined with no oversight because I'm scared. Yeah scared of not getting hoards of money stuffed into his back pocket.
Yup. USA and NATO use 'police actions' abroad to 'harden' the military, who then come home, retire, and frequently join police forces all over the nation, in big cities and small towns. Then the 'hardened' local police turn on the civilian populations of the USA. Although the Constitution forbids the military to be used against citizens in the nation, the VETERAN military is turned loose on the civilian population as police officers across the nation. A significant portion of the division in the nation results from these retired military roughing up the civilian population as police officers. The USA spends more on the military than the next 12 nations in the world because the USA is 'policing' the world more than it ought.
@FKR Not a bot. Obviously, we don't share cultural contexts. I've had some social conversations with ex-Military Police who have explained how USA police have changed as the result of foreign 'police action' training and experience. I think about that every time the police attack demonstrators. We used to have different kinds of police than this.
Auditing the military is long over due. I hope this hearing gets a lot of media coverage so people are aware of the graft and corruption that takes place in the defense contracting process.
The military gained enormously since the false flag event known as 9/11. Our military was actually involved in 9/11 and our government agencies went along with it. That is the most massive criminal conspiracy ever, IMO. It is also major treason. That is why businesses like TH-cam try to silence us regarding 9/11. They don't want congress to be confronted with charges of war crimes and treason. That could get really messy.
Let's talk about how much stuff that Lindsey Graham has done to contribute to this uncontrolled situation that we're in. He's done nothing but profit and help out the people who profit on war. I have no nice words for this flip flop
Bernie, if you audited the HOUSE & SENATE first..transparently..we would love this. Then pass term limits on everyone.... Pentagon has secrets we do NOT want greedy unpatriotic Dems or Republicans in the House & Senate selling to others. (Just a thought.)
@@joshlight6892 yes you are right the current America would be over. Meaning the swamp would be drained. 15 a hour minimum wage and single payer healthcare.
@@olorin1710 exactly. Like I said the end of America. Only an idiot believes raising the minimum wage or single payer healthcare are good for anyone. Or that Bernie would drain the swamp. Bernie is the swamp.
@@joshlight6892 hahaha. Are you a real person? Bot Or a son of Kudlow? Fortunately there is no science or lived experience to back up your B.S. Why do you support pentagon waste over a living wage?
Imagine a world without all the damage Trump did, or Clinton would have done. Instead we could have actually made progress as a planet. Bernie ain't perfect, but he's the best that we have.
How about this, USA has not won a single war even with Countries even with tiniest of military budgets. Our military has only increased war and are the terrorist that create terrorist. We have the slowest trains in the world a crumbling infrastructure, healthcare and education that causes perpetual debt, stress, bankruptcies and the we have the most homeless. De-fund the evil pentagon.
I say it every day and night! My son's school was located next to lock head and Martin. I always say the wars are what is killed by not only others across the world but citizens here too. Food prices sky rocket and fuel always the fuel. And it raises our taxes for so called building a military. New hers . Over inflated pay for wR pig's Bernie is always my guy I hope he runs again
Go Bernie Go! Even President Eisenhower who was a five star General warned us in his outgoing speech of the dangers of the Miltary Industrial Complex! Go figure!
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How is reducing the pentagon's budget by just 10% unreasonable. It saddens me a bit that this is the discourse. No option of even saying it should be reduced further.
@Walter U. Talmbaut-Willis We can get some control over them by working together and using our various forms of communication. For example regular people figured out where the CIA was torturing people, moving them around, etc by watching for airplanes. It is like the MeToo movement and using phones to video [and share] police abuse. All of it together can eventually catch and expose them for being evil.
Thank you Bernie for quoting Eisenhower to the Republicans of today, whom Eisenhower would soundly condemn if he were alive. Lyndsey Graham, for example, trying to pose as a reasonable human being is just laughable.
The thing about defense spending is, the weapons and equipment it buys doesn't stay new. It degrades in storage and becomes obsolete. If we don't use it, it's wasted. Defense spending is a waste OR an act of war.
there is truth in that. there are about a million and one factors and things to be considered, analyzed and discussed about this all. And the KEY is to have good faith and *unbought actors in every direction. Sadly and scarily there are maybe 5. And no one I know of in Washington anywhere near Bernie Sanders when it comes to integrity, passion and incorruptaibily
"Were missing 2 trillion dollars from pentagon" N then a missile blew up the accounting part of the pentagon. Or supposedly a stolen plane did a 270 degree spiral turn and miss the power lines but low enough to hit the building then also not leave any wreckage and a small hole
The largest number of deaths by group was the 34 civilian accountants who were put in a virtually empty Wedge 1(newly blast hardened) at the Pentagon. A remotely piloted 757(Flight77) could have executed the complex 270 diving turn(far above Hanjour's skill set). The plane flew extremely low(in the ground effect zone: extremely difficult) but low enough so that no other flaming debris would hit wedges 3,4or5(each with some 3,000to5,000 personal, each unrenovated wedge suspectable to massive fire damage, as only Wedge 1 was newly remodeled, blast hardened, and had full fire suppression(death counts would have been massive had the plane not lined up on wedge 1, crashing a massive 757 UNDERNEATH the second floor of wedge 1 and ending in wedge2(also largely evacuated for renovation)). The remodeling schedule for the Pentagon was fully available to the public and any "terrorists" planning attacks in 2001! So they either went to great lengths to minimize deaths, flying way above skill levels or this was a FALSE FLAG attack, as the Pentagon was looking at approx 30 some years to finish the 5 wedge renovation based on prior pre-911 funding/scheduling. One of the most camera equipped building in North America seemed not to have footage of flight 77 approach(agents quickly collected other building footage, not to be shown), AND rather then wait for NTSB inspectors to investigate crash debris, Pentagon official politely picked up debris themselves AND THEN September 19th 2001, one week after the crash letters containing anthrax, along with crazy "we are the terrorist" type messages are sent to national media and politicians; this anthrax was later tracked by our own FBI back to Fort Detrick bioweapons lab, causing a major national 911 crash investigation distraction, but Bush administration officials were pressuring justice department to blame Osama bin laden for the anthrax attack. Chapman University large studies of American fears 2015/16 show the majority of Americans (%54+) list belief that the Pentagon was not telling the truth about Sept 2001 attacks as a top major fear.
@@AbsTrakT7890 No he didn't. Are you serious?! Ah yes, here's a quote: "I’m going to make our military so big, so powerful, so strong, that nobody - absolutely nobody - is gonna to mess with us." Trump NEVER questioned the military/pentagon budget, and he absolutely did not refer to the military industrial complex in any kind of critical context.
@@GotShot22 "there's a lot of people that don't want me here..ya know you don't sell a lot of bombs when youre not dropping bombs on people, it's called the military industrial complex" ..
@@GotShot22 also he mentioned it many times when he said the military industrial complex was trying to pressure him into war with iran, to which he said he didn't want war with iran. My guy you literally don't pay attention.
41:26 Here's what he actually said: "If congress passes omnibus packages filled with things the american people want and that will actually benefit their lives they won't want to give US any money for "defense" because their lives would actually be improved. Then we can't fear monger about war lurking around every corner and further justify the lie that the defense budget needs to be so large".
In Bernie's intro he could add ...& US military capacity has ascended out of this world, long ago, so further climbing is pointless, certainly not needed like the equally long festering issues at home.
We have a lot of planes that are grounded. Fixing planes requires taking parts from grounded planes. This was particularly bad when Obama was president, THAT is what he is referring to.
Perhaps, a Medicare " for all" would be possible if just even a relatively " small" portion of the overall defense budget(say, about 250 billion or so) were to be diverted, it might really help, same with more funding for social security, I'd mentioned previously, that Jeff Bezos could provide about $50+ billion $$$$$ to help fund Social security, and STILL have $150 billion left!
In the U.S., Millionairs are about 1% of the population, in congress, 50%. Nancy Palosi makes more in one day than I make in a year. Health care is taken out of my S.S. check automatically, and I still have to pay for additional insurance, plus co-pay! You say health care is a right, FOR WHO ? You have promised seniors $200.00 more a month, where is it? I will even take it in food stamps, witch is $6.66 a day to eat on! While Nancy is eating $15.00 ice cream after a nice meal !!! At least bring us out of poverty. 💡💰🗽
@@dccrusin8290 because guess what ? After 4 years , he will go back and get a HUGE pay raise . It’s good you don’t understand corruption , good for you
Lloyd Austin didn’t just work for Raytheon, he was on the Board of the company. The corruption by this and previous administrations is absolutely disappointing.
This is why people globally still have faith in the USA .... good, clear, straight, forward, snd real truths that people feel is right and needing serious action. Mr. Sanders pls be safe and keep up the good fight ... peace and love grom Canada
You are wonderful Bernie. So grateful for your amazing, totally outstanding work!!! You ate a very special, down right, one of the best of mens! I thank God for you; immensely! THANK YOU DEAR BERNIE! YOU'RE AMAZING!
Why? The dollar's worth is downstream from their policies, measured by their ruler. What would you be counting? It's more important to follow the path of money than to come up with a number. The fact is, when all new bailout money goes to banks, insurance companies and wall street, they are immune to the inflation it causes, but the rest of us aren't. By the time we get our hands on it, it's been cycled through ledgers. The value of a dollar is calculated from total American economy divided by total dollars in physical or virtual existence, in real time with a lag, constantly adjusting value after the elite class has spent it once.
@@glovearm Thus, the audits, so that We The People (you know, that thing the government is supposed to work for) can actually see where that money is going and how it is being spent / burned.
What Outside entity oversees the DOD & Pentagon spending habits, Defense Contractor spending? As the Largest consumer of Military Everything, what kind of financial deals does the US work/Demand for giving its business to a contractor? How much does the DOD spend on CyberWarfare?
The day before 9/11 Donald Rumsfeld went on nat’l tv and said there was 2+ trillion dollars unaccounted for in the defense budget yet we still just throw money at it, without doubt, yet the pentagon has not been able to pass an audit in 30yrs, yet we question every other expense, tooth and nail.
I’m disgusted at how the people who stand to gain try to make it sound like they are the poor kids at the table who desperately need money. There is way too much waste to find these insider comments to have any real meaning.
Why if the Pentagon has not passed audits why has nothing been done all these years? Who is accountable for this neglect? I’m sure many have gotten rich No doubt many executives should be made accountable .
Congress is accountable. If you want to know who to complain to about it contact your congress man or woman and take it up with them. That is the way to get their attention. Skip the email, go in person or make a phone call. Ask tough questions, demand answers and good luck. You are going to need it. Bringing friends is also a useful tactic. Congress notices stuff like that.
Pentagon, CIA, NSA and related spending are the problem, the way we treat other nations makes us less safe, not more safe. Homeland Security and Defense Contractor transparency is needed along with scale downs, planning out their waste. Sanders represents good political leadership. Our hope for a peaceful America. Declaring US actions are not accountable to the world court, saying we do not prosecute our own war crimes is the problem, our world bullying causes other nations to bulk up militarily. Our military provoking Chinese national defense in the South China Sea during this "pandemic" draws questions as to if we started Covid in the first place
It’s time to spend on the actual defense of our country,not the defense contracting business. I spent years as a painting contractor,when I bid a price,that was the price,if I would have upped the price I would have been out of business in short order.
NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE. SERGEANT Robert Justin alford green where is my daughters KAREE and JAHMELA and their 7 children and what have you done to them.
When Mr Kane speaks on the general cuts a question I immediately thought was 'Why did the DoD choose to cut military housing in such a great manner, as opposed to making smaller cuts to multiple areas?'. Being former military, my guess would be they did it that way because it's simpler. And that's me being nice.
Bernie I love you. I so wish there was more of you I sure hope you can influence some of your coworkers to be more like you. Thank you for caring about us. Bless you.
How much money does Lindsey get from defence contractors in donations and share ownership profits and how many have offered him a job or directorships etc once he leaves office and how many of his supporters and friends are in the MIC?
He is presuming that military spending should keep up with the over-all rate of GDP growth. I think that is a false economic assumption the very basis of which should be vigorously attacked. Why should military spending keep up with greater productivity in other economic areas? It doesn't make any sense at all. House prices go up, buy more bombs. Invent a new video game, buy more bombs. How is our war spending related to our GDP? It's not.
Budget is important but HOW it's spend is key. What they spend on gouging should be monitored and redirected to the veterans. The hospitals on the whole are poorly run and understaffed. There is an attitude of carelessness in many. Other countries have lower budgets and greater defense weapons because they have no general concerns for their 'common' personnel. Mandy Smithburger is spot on.
I don’t dig how much we’re spending on the military at all, but my dad worked civil service and defense contracting his whole life and it provided me a halfway decent upbringing... so I’m a little conflicted ngl
Will the Congress Persons or Senators with no wasteful Military/Defense rice bowls in there district or state please raise their hands. What, no hands!!! Yes, its just that simple. Good luck, it sounds good but will never happen.
Why does Congress need to have these same people giving voice to what is going on.....they all eady know what they are going to say. Same ole same ole!
20 million when you count contractors and subcontractors. You know what career civil servants do when they retire at 45 or 50 with their full pension package? They collect their pensions and go work for subcontractors and contractors. Lots of them continue to function as they did as civil servants but getting paid twice, once from their pensions and once by working in private industry.
@@dccrusin8290 Indeed. They avoid the fact that the mic is so completely interwoven in the economy (golden goose). Ms. Smithberger makes reference to that fact but they dance around it...still!
I am not American, but when I see these criminal unconstitutional offensive wars and military spending it's absolutely insane..most of that money should be going to invest in america not imperialistic militarism!
Ok i dont think its the Pentagon but there was a large AMOUNT of american money lost in Afghanistan around 800 million the money was for rebuilding homes that were lost during bombing that money was given tp contractors and the homes never got BUILT there is no accounting or follow up on these funds and the amount may be much higher as well
So most of the panel is recommending ways to reduce fraud and waste in order to save money. The opposing side says that any cutting will affect front line effectiveness. The two sides are not talking about the same thing.
It is past time to audit the military. Part of being a veteran is that you do receive benefits after you are no longer in the military. This were the government breaks the contract with the soldiers. As long as they are active duty, they are taken care of, the minute they leave they have to fight for the benefits guaranteed in their enlistment papers. And yes military spending is out of control. It is time we go through military contracts with suppliers of equipment and other necessities. They enrich themselves on the backs of the American citizens. They charge outlandish prices for common things like hammers, nails, etc. My father was a civilian employee and a supervisor in Supply. I can’t forget what he said about the officers and troops, they felt they could anything in Supply they wanted free of charge for private use. My father was a good supervisor. He did not allow this behavior in his Supply depot. He said they needed to go and buy what they want, this is government property and it was stealing to help yourself.
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Lindsey Graham is talking about the US Military intervening around the world, not protecting our way of life at home. If we could only stop the fraud and the waste, and limit CEO compensation, that will be a great start. Our way of life at home is in crisis. We need to focus on our citizens here at home for awhile.
Hi how are you?
Take away the revolving door. lobbyists and politicians shluld not recruit from each other. Term limits , no super pacs, no foreign money contributions to campaigns.
Economically the government should disallow corporate borrowing in place of taxation. Cut out the middle man and tax them higher!
@@GaleLD i would not go that far down the socialists hole. They should not be able to actively trade nor manage their portfolios while in office. Blind trust, or take a break from the financial markets until out of office.
🇺🇸We the People 1st.”🕊God bless America🇺🇸...
Lindsay Graham is such a ghoul, no concern about corruption or funds that are unaccounted for by the pentagon. Took his whole time to push for war.
Lindsay has no ideals or moral guidance system other than self-preservation, the perpetual pursuit of power, and rewarding his corporate johns. He's a fabulous politician, but a horrific leader and a reprehensible human being.
Follow the money.
This is great news for China and Putin...
This what you get when raised in a bar. Trash in, trash out.
Lindsey Graham: The world is scary, we only spend more on the military than the next 10 countries. We need to be spending more than the all the counties in the world combined with no oversight because I'm scared. Yeah scared of not getting hoards of money stuffed into his back pocket.
We are not the police of the world. Our own people need help.
Yup. USA and NATO use 'police actions' abroad to 'harden' the military, who then come home, retire, and frequently join police forces all over the nation, in big cities and small towns. Then the 'hardened' local police turn on the civilian populations of the USA. Although the Constitution forbids the military to be used against citizens in the nation, the VETERAN military is turned loose on the civilian population as police officers across the nation.
A significant portion of the division in the nation results from these retired military roughing up the civilian population as police officers.
The USA spends more on the military than the next 12 nations in the world because the USA is 'policing' the world more than it ought.
@FKR It drop the uncaring guy. It's a choice.
@FKR Not a bot. Obviously, we don't share cultural contexts.
I've had some social conversations with ex-Military Police who have explained how USA police have changed as the result of foreign 'police action' training and experience. I think about that every time the police attack demonstrators.
We used to have different kinds of police than this.
That we do, but unfortunately we are the police of the world. 9/11 proved that.
@@dccrusin8290 really? Is there any data on how much the the police force is consisted of the VETERAN population?
Addressing the massive overspending for the MIC shouldn’t be a divisive issue.
Have you looked at the GQP lately? Devoid of reality. Hyperactive/swollen amygdala. Permanent fight or flight mode.
According to Graham forget any social help we needs to bomb the world !!!
@FKR How about owning stocks in companies their policies effect? If you think that's just Republicans, you aren't concerned with reality.
Auditing the military is long over due. I hope this hearing gets a lot of media coverage so people are aware of the graft and corruption that takes place in the defense contracting process.
The military gained enormously since the false flag event known as 9/11. Our military was actually involved in 9/11 and our government agencies went along with it. That is the most massive criminal conspiracy ever, IMO. It is also major treason. That is why businesses like TH-cam try to silence us regarding 9/11. They don't want congress to be confronted with charges of war crimes and treason. That could get really messy.
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Bro you are so true & it's time to put to better use. Amen sir.
Ha! Ha! Ha! Yes, yes yes, let’s audit the Pentagon mafia!!!
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Let's talk about how much stuff that Lindsey Graham has done to contribute to this uncontrolled situation that we're in. He's done nothing but profit and help out the people who profit on war. I have no nice words for this flip flop
Bernie, if you audited the HOUSE & SENATE first..transparently..we would love this. Then pass term limits on everyone.... Pentagon has secrets we do NOT want greedy unpatriotic Dems or Republicans in the House & Senate selling to others. (Just a thought.)
I can't even listen to his voice, he is too evil.
Yep, he flip flops with the slightest breeze.
@@deborrastrom8559 Hi how're you?
Hi how're you?
Bernie should be a second term president right now”
He would be, if it wasn’t for the DNC.
If he was, then America would be finished now too.
@@joshlight6892 yes you are right the current America would be over. Meaning the swamp would be drained. 15 a hour minimum wage and single payer healthcare.
@@olorin1710 exactly. Like I said the end of America. Only an idiot believes raising the minimum wage or single payer healthcare are good for anyone. Or that Bernie would drain the swamp. Bernie is the swamp.
@@joshlight6892 hahaha. Are you a real person? Bot Or a son of Kudlow? Fortunately there is no science or lived experience to back up your B.S. Why do you support pentagon waste over a living wage?
@@joshlight6892 Bernie Sanders does not align himself with billionaires, the idea that Bernie is the swamp is delusional.
Bernie should be a second term president right now.
yep.
Truer words have never been spoken!
Imagine a world without all the damage Trump did, or Clinton would have done. Instead we could have actually made progress as a planet.
Bernie ain't perfect, but he's the best that we have.
Hes in charge of finance and has more power than any president !!!
How about this, USA has not won a single war even with Countries even with tiniest of military budgets. Our military has only increased war and are the terrorist that create terrorist. We have the slowest trains in the world a crumbling infrastructure, healthcare and education that causes perpetual debt, stress, bankruptcies and the we have the most homeless. De-fund the evil pentagon.
Why are they talking to the Heritage Foundation? Why should they have any say-so about our budgets? I don't care what they think.
We fund alot of foundations, then they turn around pay Congress for their votes!
I am not sure, but I suspect the dems and Republicans each invited some speakers.
Oh, that reference got thrown in for the people who know that Pence 'works' there now.
Thank Mitch McConnell apparently they are citizens with rights.
Herritage Foundation is strictly a conservative think tank for Republican operatives to spread their crazy propaganda.
He cares more about this country than most in DC.
🇺🇸We love you Bernie Sanders👍🏻Thank you.🕊...
I agree with you 💯 !!!!
I say it every day and night! My son's school was located next to lock head and Martin. I always say the wars are what is killed by not only others across the world but citizens here too. Food prices sky rocket and fuel always the fuel. And it raises our taxes for so called building a military. New hers . Over inflated pay for wR pig's Bernie is always my guy I hope he runs again
No he does not. He sold out when he pulled out the Audit bill with Ron Paul in the last minute
Lol, there isn't one politician with clean hands. Especially not this clown.
OMG please audit the pentagon! Please Please Please!!! Git that money!
Go Bernie Go! Even President Eisenhower who was a five star General warned us in his outgoing speech of the dangers of the Miltary Industrial Complex! Go figure!
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"warfighting" to me sounds like the newest catchphrase to try to normalize violence against others
“No war.”🕊... Age of Aquarius...
How is reducing the pentagon's budget by just 10% unreasonable. It saddens me a bit that this is the discourse. No option of even saying it should be reduced further.
I'd cut overseas bases by 50% for starters.
@Walter U. Talmbaut-Willis We can get some control over them by working together and using our various forms of communication. For example regular people figured out where the CIA was torturing people, moving them around, etc by watching for airplanes. It is like the MeToo movement and using phones to video [and share] police abuse. All of it together can eventually catch and expose them for being evil.
Go get 'em Bernie! No more socialist welfare for the Military Industrial Complex
socialism is not when the mic is on welfare. that's just corporate welfare capitalism.
@@CP-ir3ft it was meant ironically, a parody of right wing talking points
@@kaleok oops sorry lol
a nation gets what it deserves when it forgets God ! Deuteronomy 28, Leviticus 26 Ezekiel 22,23,24 Ezekiel 33 !
And their CEO’s!
Thank you Bernie for quoting Eisenhower to the Republicans of today, whom Eisenhower would soundly condemn if he were alive. Lyndsey Graham, for example, trying to pose as a reasonable human being is just laughable.
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yep.
YES Audit the pentagon.
The thing about defense spending is, the weapons and equipment it buys doesn't stay new. It degrades in storage and becomes obsolete. If we don't use it, it's wasted. Defense spending is a waste OR an act of war.
there is truth in that. there are about a million and one factors and things to be considered, analyzed and discussed about this all. And the KEY is to have good faith and *unbought actors in every direction. Sadly and scarily there are maybe 5. And no one I know of in Washington anywhere near Bernie Sanders when it comes to integrity, passion and incorruptaibily
Which is why they have a constant need to invent new targets/victims.
"Were missing 2 trillion dollars from pentagon" N then a missile blew up the accounting part of the pentagon. Or supposedly a stolen plane did a 270 degree spiral turn and miss the power lines but low enough to hit the building then also not leave any wreckage and a small hole
It had to be a missile, or pre-placed bombs, or both. There is no way there was any airplane crash. That is obvious.
The largest number of deaths by group was the 34 civilian accountants who were put in a virtually empty Wedge 1(newly blast hardened) at the Pentagon. A remotely piloted 757(Flight77) could have executed the complex 270 diving turn(far above Hanjour's skill set). The plane flew extremely low(in the ground effect zone: extremely difficult) but low enough so that no other flaming debris would hit wedges 3,4or5(each with some 3,000to5,000 personal, each unrenovated wedge suspectable to massive fire damage, as only Wedge 1 was newly remodeled, blast hardened, and had full fire suppression(death counts would have been massive had the plane not lined up on wedge 1, crashing a massive 757 UNDERNEATH the second floor of wedge 1 and ending in wedge2(also largely evacuated for renovation)).
The remodeling schedule for the Pentagon was fully available to the public and any "terrorists" planning attacks in 2001! So they either went to great lengths to minimize deaths, flying way above skill levels or this was a FALSE FLAG attack, as the Pentagon was looking at approx 30 some years to finish the 5 wedge renovation based on prior pre-911 funding/scheduling.
One of the most camera equipped building in North America seemed not to have footage of flight 77 approach(agents quickly collected other building footage, not to be shown), AND rather then wait for NTSB inspectors to investigate crash debris, Pentagon official politely picked up debris themselves AND THEN September 19th 2001, one week after the crash letters containing anthrax, along with crazy "we are the terrorist" type messages are sent to national media and politicians; this anthrax was later tracked by our own FBI back to Fort Detrick bioweapons lab, causing a major national 911 crash investigation distraction, but Bush administration officials were pressuring justice department to blame Osama bin laden for the anthrax attack.
Chapman University large studies of American fears 2015/16 show the majority of Americans (%54+) list belief that the Pentagon was not telling the truth about Sept 2001 attacks as a top major fear.
I'm glad a politician finally said military industrial complex out loud
Trump just said it for 5 years so.
@@AbsTrakT7890 No he didn't. Are you serious?! Ah yes, here's a quote:
"I’m going to make our military so big, so powerful, so strong, that nobody - absolutely nobody - is gonna to mess with us."
Trump NEVER questioned the military/pentagon budget, and he absolutely did not refer to the military industrial complex in any kind of critical context.
He absolutely did .
@@GotShot22 "there's a lot of people that don't want me here..ya know you don't sell a lot of bombs when youre not dropping bombs on people, it's called the military industrial complex" ..
@@GotShot22 also he mentioned it many times when he said the military industrial complex was trying to pressure him into war with iran, to which he said he didn't want war with iran. My guy you literally don't pay attention.
Bernie's speeches are music to my ears
I like that Bernie quoted Eisenhower's military industrial complex speech. NICE!
Lindsey Graham is a bomb-loving neocon pirate.
41:26 Here's what he actually said: "If congress passes omnibus packages filled with things the american people want and that will actually benefit their lives they won't want to give US any money for "defense" because their lives would actually be improved. Then we can't fear monger about war lurking around every corner and further justify the lie that the defense budget needs to be so large".
Will Pentagon media NBC + ABC cover this? LOL.
So HILARIOUS that you PRETEND to care about govt waste when you omit Pentagon media FOX news, Newsmax.
TH-cam has become major media.
In Bernie's intro he could add ...& US military capacity has ascended out of this world, long ago, so further climbing is pointless, certainly not needed like the equally long festering issues at home.
I hope Lindsey Graham reads the comments so he can see that he’s not fooling us... we see you Lindsey.
Lindsey Graham “we’ve flown the wings off our planes”. Planes are meant to be flown, not flying them damages them more.
We have a lot of planes that are grounded. Fixing planes requires taking parts from grounded planes. This was particularly bad when Obama was president, THAT is what he is referring to.
The solution to most of our problems is integrity, so much fake people makes so much fake results
Start audit in the purchasing dept and deals with suppliers. Then check excess inventory not rocket science where most leakage takes place.
Perhaps, a Medicare " for all" would be possible if just even a relatively " small" portion of the overall defense budget(say, about 250 billion or so) were to be diverted, it might really help, same with more funding for social security, I'd mentioned previously, that Jeff Bezos could provide about $50+ billion $$$$$ to help fund Social security, and STILL have $150 billion left!
That or if we implement some of Sanders' comprehensive plans. Like taxing capital gains and micro quick trades a fraction of a penny.
And stopped sending billions to Israel and other rich countries!
Great meeting but need follow through oversight more important
Audit house and senate members
And president. It's ALL corrupt.
The House has a revolving door. Many only stay their first 2 year term.
@@dccrusin8290 Pelosi ?
In the U.S., Millionairs are about 1% of the population, in congress, 50%. Nancy Palosi makes more in one day than I make in a year. Health care is taken out of my S.S. check automatically, and I still have to pay for additional insurance, plus co-pay! You say health care is a right, FOR WHO ? You have promised seniors $200.00 more a month, where is it? I will even take it in food stamps, witch is $6.66 a day to eat on! While Nancy is eating $15.00 ice cream after a nice meal !!! At least bring us out of poverty. 💡💰🗽
@@almapennington3685 bingo!
I Am Open Ears For Every Word From This Man
A actual inteligent Man. I don’t always agree with him but at times l am in awe of him.
The Gov't goal is to protect, the Military Complex goal is to get the price as high as possible buy being as inefficient as possible.
And padding the budget for public relations swag to give away to rank in file employees instead of paying them decently.
Funny you mention Raytheon Bernie . The Sec Def worked as a member at Raytheon haha .
So what would his motivation be to take a pay cut to become a civil servant?
@@dccrusin8290 because guess what ? After 4 years , he will go back and get a HUGE pay raise . It’s good you don’t understand corruption , good for you
Lloyd Austin didn’t just work for Raytheon, he was on the Board of the company. The corruption by this and previous administrations is absolutely disappointing.
@@ferddoesweirdthingsinlife1040 Ah. Thanks for the insight. 👍
@@AverageJoe483 Ah. I only saw corruption in Ohio. But it seemed from Southern immigrants into the State. Plain dishonesty is more common.
Go Bernie Go!!
These defence lies are just as old. 40 years old.
The only man with the heart , mind and balls to bring positive change to America
Yep. That's why they blocked him , their scared to death of him IMHO .... Sad how they did him that dirty....
They all agree that reassessment of military strategy is important YES.!
This is why people globally still have faith in the USA .... good, clear, straight, forward, snd real truths that people feel is right and needing serious action. Mr. Sanders pls be safe and keep up the good fight ... peace and love grom Canada
Last time they tried to audit the pentagon 9/11 happened the plane that hit the pentagon destroyed the accounting dept. , so convient.
We are our own worst threat. Clean up this mess and then you will be able to cut the budget as waste, fraud and abuse are taken care of.
Bernie is working on it!
The military men/women soldiers should get a raise, not the CEOs
I am a Bernie guy. Always have been. We should all be like him, a good example of being a human leader.
Very important information
You are wonderful Bernie. So grateful for your amazing, totally outstanding work!!! You ate a very special, down right, one of the best of mens! I thank God for you; immensely! THANK YOU DEAR BERNIE! YOU'RE AMAZING!
A better way to spend money is to make sure companies are not stabbing the Government In the Back . Heyy that's Us ?
THANK YOU Mandy!
The illusion of danger is necessary to perpetuate the power of the corrupt.
There is only two politicians in America actually fighting for the people. Here is the main man at work. I love you Bernie!!!
Audit the fed.
Why? The dollar's worth is downstream from their policies, measured by their ruler. What would you be counting? It's more important to follow the path of money than to come up with a number. The fact is, when all new bailout money goes to banks, insurance companies and wall street, they are immune to the inflation it causes, but the rest of us aren't. By the time we get our hands on it, it's been cycled through ledgers. The value of a dollar is calculated from total American economy divided by total dollars in physical or virtual existence, in real time with a lag, constantly adjusting value after the elite class has spent it once.
@@glovearm Thus, the audits, so that We The People (you know, that thing the government is supposed to work for) can actually see where that money is going and how it is being spent / burned.
@@iansanford6544 You're right. I guess I was pointing out that routing and timing is more significant than quantities.
What Outside entity oversees the DOD & Pentagon spending habits, Defense Contractor spending?
As the Largest consumer of Military Everything, what kind of financial deals does the US work/Demand for giving its business to a contractor?
How much does the DOD spend on CyberWarfare?
Super important topic
Bring our weapon systems parts home .
For all the headaches that the lost troops... Was that a Freudian slip?
Wow see how they excuse their corruption!!!
Split up offense from defense, than delete offense. Easy.
God Bless Sen Grassley. They don't make 'em like that anymore. Honesty, honesty abundant.
Why are we using poster boards in 2021? 😅
All our senators went to school in the 70's. The standards for congress are "special".
cuz Chyna can't hack it
I like poster boards.
Because his base has a low literacy rate.
@@glovearm More like '50s or '60s. Learning pipes and tubes is tough.
That Dwayne Johnson becomes a part the financial review of the largest military apparatus in the world.
The day before 9/11 Donald Rumsfeld went on nat’l tv and said there was 2+ trillion dollars unaccounted for in the defense budget yet we still just throw money at it, without doubt, yet the pentagon has not been able to pass an audit in 30yrs, yet we question every other expense, tooth and nail.
I’m disgusted at how the people who stand to gain try to make it sound like they are the poor kids at the table who desperately need money. There is way too much waste to find these insider comments to have any real meaning.
Love listening to Bernie, because he is for the people.
Why if the Pentagon has not passed audits why has nothing been done all these years? Who is accountable for this neglect? I’m sure many have gotten rich
No doubt many executives should be made accountable
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Congress is accountable. If you want to know who to complain to about it contact your congress man or woman and take it up with them. That is the way to get their attention. Skip the email, go in person or make a phone call. Ask tough questions, demand answers and good luck. You are going to need it. Bringing friends is also a useful tactic. Congress notices stuff like that.
Pentagon, CIA, NSA and related spending are the problem, the way we treat other nations makes us less safe, not more safe. Homeland Security and Defense Contractor transparency is needed along with scale downs, planning out their waste.
Sanders represents good political leadership. Our hope for a peaceful America.
Declaring US actions are not accountable to the world court, saying we do not prosecute our own war crimes is the problem, our world bullying causes other nations to bulk up militarily. Our military provoking Chinese national defense in the South China Sea during this "pandemic" draws questions as to if we started Covid in the first place
It’s time to spend on the actual defense of our country,not the defense contracting business. I spent years as a painting contractor,when I bid a price,that was the price,if I would have upped the price I would have been out of business in short order.
Much of that defense spending and renovation freed up durable equipment to the police is a mistake they care not to address.
Lindsey Graham is the human embodiment of wearing socks with sandals.
Defense contractors are the problem. We shouldn’t be paying them million dollar salaries!
I'm French, and I wish we had our own Bernie Sanders.
NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE.
SERGEANT Robert Justin alford green where is my daughters KAREE and JAHMELA and their 7 children and what have you done to them.
When Mr Kane speaks on the general cuts a question I immediately thought was 'Why did the DoD choose to cut military housing in such a great manner, as opposed to making smaller cuts to multiple areas?'. Being former military, my guess would be they did it that way because it's simpler. And that's me being nice.
They did that because it made the people making the cuts look bad... So they are hesitant to try to do another cut
Bernie I love you. I so wish there was more of you I sure hope you can influence some of your coworkers to be more like you. Thank you for caring about us. Bless you.
Do you even know how many bases we have around the world ? Check it out it would make you sick
How much money does Lindsey get from defence contractors in donations and share ownership profits and how many have offered him a job or directorships etc once he leaves office and how many of his supporters and friends are in the MIC?
He is presuming that military spending should keep up with the over-all rate of GDP growth. I think that is a false economic assumption the very basis of which should be vigorously attacked. Why should military spending keep up with greater productivity in other economic areas? It doesn't make any sense at all. House prices go up, buy more bombs. Invent a new video game, buy more bombs. How is our war spending related to our GDP? It's not.
Yeah we are detouring war but spending more than half the worlds military spending
I wonder how prevelant a software program like tableau is implemented in the government? I'm thinking really low lol...
Lets play, 'WHO'S ON THE TAKE!', Game...lets start with Lindsay Graham
They can't show up don't give rhem nothing they can't do right don't give them nothing
Does this have anything to do with the Pentagon IG investigation surrounding the UFO disclosure mishandling?
42:55-43:05 This guy literally said that no one should consider the Pentagon budget BLOATED bc Dwayne The Rock 🪨 Johnson...... >mic drop moment
We live in a sovereign economy. Fed taxes don't fund spending.
Budget is important but HOW it's spend is key. What they spend on gouging should be monitored and redirected to the veterans. The hospitals on the whole are poorly run and understaffed. There is an attitude of carelessness in many. Other countries have lower budgets and greater defense weapons because they have no general concerns for their 'common' personnel. Mandy Smithburger is spot on.
I don’t dig how much we’re spending on the military at all, but my dad worked civil service and defense contracting his whole life and it provided me a halfway decent upbringing... so I’m a little conflicted ngl
Will the Congress Persons or Senators with no wasteful Military/Defense rice bowls in there district or state please raise their hands. What, no hands!!! Yes, its just that simple. Good luck, it sounds good but will never happen.
Why does Congress need to have these same people giving voice to what is going on.....they all eady know what they are going to say. Same ole same ole!
42:00 " The Department of Defense, with it's over 20 million employees.."
Really? I'm finding the number closer to 2.8 million 🤔
20 million when you count contractors and subcontractors. You know what career civil servants do when they retire at 45 or 50 with their full pension package? They collect their pensions and go work for subcontractors and contractors. Lots of them continue to function as they did as civil servants but getting paid twice, once from their pensions and once by working in private industry.
@@dccrusin8290 Indeed. They avoid the fact that the mic is so completely interwoven in the economy (golden goose). Ms. Smithberger makes reference to that fact but they dance around it...still!
I am not American, but when I see these criminal unconstitutional offensive wars and military spending it's absolutely insane..most of that money should be going to invest in america not imperialistic militarism!
Ok i dont think its the Pentagon but there was a large AMOUNT of american money lost in Afghanistan around 800 million the money was for rebuilding homes that were lost during bombing that money was given tp contractors and the homes never got BUILT there is no accounting or follow up on these funds and the amount may be much higher as well
This is the best thing you are doing. Audit all agencies.
I could live well for a year on what they spend on one toilet seat. I would sell them mine for half the cost if they want it.
Get rid of the targeting program .now .today.its a black hole of waste.
So most of the panel is recommending ways to reduce fraud and waste in order to save money. The opposing side says that any cutting will affect front line effectiveness. The two sides are not talking about the same thing.
It is past time to audit the military. Part of being a veteran is that you do receive benefits after you are no longer in the military. This were the government breaks the contract with the soldiers. As long as they are active duty, they are taken care of, the minute they leave they have to fight for the benefits guaranteed in their enlistment papers. And yes military spending is out of control. It is time we go through military contracts with suppliers of equipment and other necessities. They enrich themselves on the backs of the American citizens. They charge outlandish prices for common things like hammers, nails, etc. My father was a civilian employee and a supervisor in Supply. I can’t forget what he said about the officers and troops, they felt they could anything in Supply they wanted free of charge for private use. My father was a good supervisor. He did not allow this behavior in his Supply depot. He said they needed to go and buy what they want, this is government property and it was stealing to help yourself.
Whoever is coughing turn off your mic
Ross Perot wants his graphs back Lindsay 😜
The Reps are so full of it !!
Not a Bernie fan but agree with him %100 on this!!! Pentagon is rouge!!
miss graham is carrying on again
there is a ton of people willing to say the right thing, but what will get done?