I would agree that we have a very good intelligence community across the board, but my question is, is it cost efficient? Does the end product of information outweigh cost of $75 “billion”. That is a pretty big number if you ask me and for all the excellent work that is done, there are just as many down falls. That is part of any organization, so I am not pointing a finger say ‘’you guys suck” but I am wondering why it cost so much. I don’t think the Intel community is doing anything wrong or different than any other government organization, big Army will spend money on having dirt piles moved to make sure they get next year’s budget. That doesn’t mean they should be, or that it’s sustainable for a nation that is supposedly going broke.
SOWT ask’ed what would I do to improve the system, and I truly have no damn idea. But I am more than confident that if I had the data in front of me along with the stats on effectiveness, I could find some ways to cut the budget down. I have seen the amount of waste all over the Army and I can promise I could tear the Army’s budget down by 25-30% (probably a lot more) without losing combat effectiveness.
Could you imagine if you owned a business and ran your budgeting like the US Government? lol I guess it would be going broke like the US gov… :confused: