What do Americans in general, feel about the revelations, of corruption involved USAID, or do they even know
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dancingtongue · 80-89, M
@MarineBob The U.S. Military has failed 7 consecutive internal audits by those inspector generals and their budget is a zillion times bigger than USAID's, so we go after USAID first? In the private business world you do internal audits on a regular basis not just to find corruption, waste, and fraud, but to improve efficiency and recommend better methods. You then bring in external auditors on a periodic basis as a double-check on your internal auditors. You don't ignore your internal audits and then hand over the keys to external auditors and tell them to blow up the company.
I confess it has been decades since I served. But let me tell you how those military audits used to work in my day. You were told an inspection was coming, you ran through your records and inventory to make sure they would pass, and you got rid of or hid anything that could be explained satisfactorily. There was a perhaps apocryphal story in my division of how an extra machine gun was chopped up and trashed rather than finding out where it belonged or an explanation of why it was there. And still they have failed INTERNAL audits 7 times, have one of the biggest budgets in the Federal government, and the solution is to fire the inspector generals and close down USAID which is a mere pimple when it comes to bloated budgets?
I confess it has been decades since I served. But let me tell you how those military audits used to work in my day. You were told an inspection was coming, you ran through your records and inventory to make sure they would pass, and you got rid of or hid anything that could be explained satisfactorily. There was a perhaps apocryphal story in my division of how an extra machine gun was chopped up and trashed rather than finding out where it belonged or an explanation of why it was there. And still they have failed INTERNAL audits 7 times, have one of the biggest budgets in the Federal government, and the solution is to fire the inspector generals and close down USAID which is a mere pimple when it comes to bloated budgets?