Bernie Sanders has taken on the military industrial complex with new legislation that would
require audits of the Pentagon on a regular basis. And the Pentagon will have to return billions of
dollars for what they have completely wasted. They've lost it. It's been fraud. Government
contractors are stealing from 'em. Government contractors are marking up what they're selling by
4000%. And Bernie Sanders says, what the hell? We left 2 billion dollars worth of military equipment
in Afghanistan. That's the low end of it. We have, we're unable to account, the government says we're
unable to account for $1.5 trillion. Okay. And Bernie says, you know, shouldn't we look at this?
It is, I mean, it's laughable because it's just so extreme,
the fraud and corruption taking place. And of course it always comes down to Bernie Sanders
gotta be the one to go out there and do it for us. Along with Ed Markey. Ed Markey is a good guy.
Markey is very good on this issue. He is. Also a name we might wanna start throwing
out a little more for other things. Good point.
But Bernie Sanders points out the fact that, listen, the Pentagon itself has failed their
last five audits in a row. They're telling us every year, yeah, you gave us $800 billion,
$900 billion. We know where like $400 billion of it went. But that other $400, pfft, that's.
Literally, that is what you just said is exactly what they had to admit. We don't know
three, what is it, $3.5 trillion? We don't know where 60% of that went. Okay. Right now,
every day we're seeing stories about Ukraine. I mean, the graft and the fraud in Ukraine.
But we just keep writing checks and sending them money. And, you know, at the same time, I thought
this was interesting, I dunno if you followed this story. Zelensky has called off democratic
elections indefinitely. Okay. Did you know that? I hadn't seen that.
Yes. He's called off democratic elections indefinitely. Now, I can see in a war zone,
it's tough to have an election, but you don't call 'em off indefinitely. So we're trying to
pump up democracy by sending him this money. The money's disappearing. The generals are saying,
we don't even know where the hell the money's going. We saw it in Afghanistan, in Iraq.
Good lord. I mean, the money we left in Iraq based on a lie that Cheney and Bush
and Democrats and Republicans started. Right? And we're not just talking about, oh, it was
allocated in a budget. We're talking about, remember the pallets of cash?
Yes. Yes. Actual money
dropped out of the airplane and nobody knows. We don't know where any of the cash went.
That was like, was it the number 5 billion? It was something really crazy.
It was in the billions, definitely. It was in the billions where we flew in the cash.
They had pictures of it. They had stacks of bills and cash and they're driving them off in trucks.
They said, we asked, where is it? Nobody knows. We're just the delivery guys. Whatever happens
once we drop it off, that's on you. So we have an infrastructure in America
falling apart. We're sending money all over the world. The Pentagon doesn't know where it is.
The only people making money on this really are the contractors. Right? People building weapons
and people who are governmental contractors that are selling us toilet seats, ashtrays, weapons,
coffee makers with a 4000% increase. Yeah. And, you know, we're also within
a year or two of watching that Pentagon budget because what is the latest one, $886 billion?
It's almost $900 billion. Well, actually the argument is it's $900
billion because they have all this hidden. And they throw a lot more on right before it
passes. But we're a year or two away of it being a trillion dollars a year. And military spending
already accounts for more than 50% of total US spending. We spend more on this Pentagon that
is wasting and and losing it to fraud than we do on every other program combined in this country.
Yeah. And we got people who can't get medical care. People who are struggling to eat.
We have bridges falling apart. We have roadways falling apart. We have a president, again,
ready to tip over, but still talks about what he's done for the infrastructure. No, he hasn't.
There's been nothing done. But what has been done for the military is $900 billion that we're giving
them. And even they admit, we don't know, this is their words, we don't know where 60% of it went.
Scares the bejesus outta me. Yes.
Thanks for joining me, Farron. Thank you.
That's off for this week, but all these segments are gonna be available throughout
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