TL;DR — would we get more traction if, in letters to congressional representatives, we framed the UAP disclosure issue as a wedge that can be used to crack open the pentagon’s budgetary mismanagement issues. By searching through the documents, it is likely that UAP disclosure will uncover other unacknowledged SAPs, and may provide evidence and leverage needed to enforce accountability on the military industrial complex.
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It is well documented that the Pentagon has a major financial management issue. As of 2018, the DoD had racked up $21 trillion in undocumentable transactions, and as of 22, they could not account for 61% ($2.1T) of their assets. There are unacknowledged projects that function with minimal if any congressional oversight oversight (see: military incursion in Niger), and per Grusch’s testimony, there are numerous ways for the Pentagon to hide money, effectively laundering it through contractors via controlled access research grants.
This is absolutely bananas. Think about what we could do for the country with an extra 2.1 trillion dollars.
Yet, there are very few voices shouting “hey! This is really fucked! We need to fix it!” This should be a bipartisan issue. Fiscal conservatives should be screaming, as should progressives who want to spend on social programs, and anti-interventionist folks everywhere. And yet, we’re about to sign off on even more defense spending.
Fuuuckin’ sweet man.
I want to see the aliens as much as anybody, but regardless of whether It would seem that, regardless of what we ultimately learn, the bigger problem facing Americans writ large may be that the Pentagon is a bloated fraudulent mess. This is likely to be a popular issue among all voters. So, whatever a given congressional representative’s feelings about the UAP issue, if we framed our outreach as an opportunity to find a chink in the armor of a much bigger issue, we might get a better response. This is essentially of how AOC framed her questions to Grusch during his testimony.
What are your thoughts, and is there a good way to word this?
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