But if we cut military, they'd then be much more fiscally responsible and not have to admit that they'd "lost" trillions of dollars that they can't account for every, oh, decade or so.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/23/politics/us-army-audit-account...
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/23/politics/us-army-audit-account...
That article is rehashing the same bogus premise that has been thrown around for decades. Here's how it works:
https://www.metabunk.org/debunked-8-5-trillion-missing-from-...
https://davidlandy.net/no-the-pentagon-didnt-lose-8-5-trilli...
Basically: within $N trillion in spending, there is a combination of non-audits and accounting irregularities, so therefore CNN throws up a click-bait article claiming the entire amount of spending is unaccounted for.
Pretty idiotic when you consider the sums being claimed vs the known expenditures in question. The premise is: every dollar that wasn't audited was stolen; logically, even if one were to assume theft (etc) happened, it's likely to be a dramatically smaller sum of the whole.