raggmann54 They don’t even know how much money is unaccounted for or “missing”. I’ve seen figures ranging from $2.3 Trillion to $35 trillion in “adjustments”. They have never passed an audit… Your wife is correct and she could add that if you need to account for the money give that job to a woman, also.
I left high volume repetitive manufacturing when I joined the DoD. Went from a mindset of profit, inventory reduction, efficiency, yields, schedule performance and continuous improvement to "OMG, we have to spend this money by the end of the fiscal year or Congress will cut it out of next year's budget". It was very frustrating. Thankfully, we were a small, young and agile Command and were always adding more technology for the war fighters.