Reply #36: I don't argue with the fact that there is brutal, unacceptable graft and mismanagement.

[MADem]

There's outright theft, there's skimming, there's Duke Cunningham-ish crap going on too. I don't argue any of those points. But see, those funds are already allocated before they're stolen. They get doled out to programs, and THEN they're stolen from those programs in nefarious fashion.

If the funds are reallocated on the other hand; in other words, pulled out of say, barracks maintenance, or PCS funds, or Navy fuel costs, and put somewhere else, they've got to jump through hoops to make that happen, and that process IS transparent.