''Although he thinks potential savings could exceed $70 billion over the next 10 years if all of his suggestions were implemented, he also says that his report has just skimmed the surface, and savings could be much larger. He stated,
I prepared this report because the
American people expect the Pentagon’s $600 billion annual budget to go
toward our nation’s defense.
That isn't happening. Billions of defense
dollars are being spent on programs and missions that have little or
nothing to do with national security, or are already being performed by
other government agencies. Spending more on grocery stores than guns
doesn’t make any sense. And using defense dollars to run microbreweries,
study Twitter slang, create beef jerky, or examine Star Trek does
nothing to defend our nation.''
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