'Let Me Read You The Relevant Sentence': John Kennedy Grills General In Senate Hearing

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At a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing last week, Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) questioned military officials about the work of the Army Corps of Engineers.
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@MCLIcpfan000 Жыл бұрын

The Mississippi River will always have its own way no engineer can persuade it otherwise -Mark Twain.

@perryrush6563 Жыл бұрын

My other favorite quote about the MS River is In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oolitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo and New Orleans will have joined their streets together, and be plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. - Life on the Mississippi

@glennrishton5679 Жыл бұрын

@@perryrush6563 I read that decades ago and it has always stuck with me but I have been unable to remember what work of Twains that was from.

@deep5811 Жыл бұрын

Yep!

@cristinakarlin5589 Жыл бұрын

Water will do that in great amounts.

@richardspencer1682 Жыл бұрын

YEP!!!...and the SUN is what changes the climate, as it has for all the eons our planet has been in existence. IMO.

@elmalo5851 Жыл бұрын

These money laundering schemes are remarkable! Within our military, contractors, foreign aid...

@mynameisnobodysometimeseve7653 Жыл бұрын

Disgustingly remarkable.

@trentp151 Жыл бұрын

The entire US Federal government is one big grifting and money laundering scheme. I wish people would wake up and realize that they aren't there for our benefit.

@halielouya453 Жыл бұрын

Nothing more inept than a Republican in Congress, for over a decade they said the Clintons would be brought to Justice. If you listen real hard you can still hear Hillary and Hunter laughing!!! Everyone knows your Republicunt will cave on the debt ceiling, Wall Street's and the big banks boot lickers!!! Where is Tucker???

@FUBARandU Жыл бұрын

And politicians

@elmalo5851 Жыл бұрын

@@mynameisnobodysometimeseve7653 our Government Supply Contractors are the worst in ripping off the Military.

@danielboone6631 Жыл бұрын

As a contractor, I would like to do a job for him personally. Then while working on it tell him the cost is going to triple. When he asks why, I would say "That's something we've got to get better on."

@purgethis1157 Жыл бұрын

and they would wring their hands, ask for some quantifiable info and as long as you could come up with something close to viable, they'd pay it.

@rayburnyarborough4695 Жыл бұрын

A prime example of this type of fiasco is the pedestrian bridge built over the Cumberland River in Nashville. Halfway across the contractor ran out of money. The solution always is: well let’s throw a little more money at it and the peons can pay for it.

@Theresa1057 Жыл бұрын

I love it

@Theresa1057 Жыл бұрын

As a hairstylist I could imagine me saying that to one of my clients lol it’s something I need to get better at! Lol I remember working and my coworker was doing a straight razor shave in a military man, she cut is head really bad, she said I’ll give you few haircuts for a year and he came back the next week but I had to let her go the day she did that, for one cosmetologist are not allowed to use a strait razor, another example is about 40 years ago a co worker cut a guys ear really bad so what does the owner of the franchise do? They sent her to rehab and she had only been an employee for 2 months! I can imagine saying that to a judge we have to get better at not cutting people skin

@arthurhelms9824 Жыл бұрын

@@purgethis1157boy shit, change orders aren’t always approved especially when it’s due to an inability to do the math upfront.

@smexijebus Жыл бұрын

They will always be able to tell you, down the last cent, the amount of money they 'saved' you, but they'll never in a billion years give an accurate accounting of how much their programs will cost.

@perryrush6563 Жыл бұрын

We take the cost of the project and then multiply by a factor of X to make sure it is reported to be far higher Than the cost of the project. We start out at a minimum of 50 for X.

@AnarchyisFreedom Жыл бұрын

The savings is a lie. It assumes that people would not change a thing. That they would rebuild in the exact same manner and allow themselves to get wiped out again. It assumes that no other group would take action to make a difference. It assumes that the ACOE is the only agent of change.

@halielouya453 Жыл бұрын

@retiredmusiceducator3612 Жыл бұрын

or exactly how they spent the money - in detail!

@easter_sunday Жыл бұрын

Truer words never spoken.

@deep5811 Жыл бұрын

Stop giving these people immunity before they testify.

@mikegreene3048 Жыл бұрын

I am a retired concrete finisher and have worked on government jobs and the waste and mismanagement of funds and plain theft was mind boggling!

@skaph8393 Жыл бұрын

I was in the engineers for 6 and half years and yes they steal everything and the kitchen sink even if bolted down. Black market is real bad when I was stationed in Germany and this was by a lot of the NCOs.

@Chris_at_Home Жыл бұрын

I’m a retired communications tech and 25 years ago I worked on a government contract and I never have seen so much waste and incompetence in my life. After two years I went back to work in the civilian sector where sane people were in control.

@samyazaazazyel7701 Жыл бұрын

10,000 for hammer doors built with cheap doors instead of solid doors.Then abandoned projects lmao

@dcsj6837 Жыл бұрын

I spent 21 years in the military and believe me, the waste is unbelievable. We would get to the end of the fiscal year and would be ENCOURAGED to waste things just so we could buy more before the budget was expended. The working theory was that "if we don't use it up this year, we will not get more next year". This is how it works in all of government and it's ridiculous. There is no incentive for actually being responsible for saving resources. It's not real money. There's no end to it. That's how it goes.

@bilindamueller3154 Жыл бұрын

It's a SLUSH FUND FOR DEMONRATS

@bobbycorrigan7969 Жыл бұрын

Great job once again Senator Kennedy, 👍🇺🇸🙏

@Henry4ever Жыл бұрын

Yes

@clivenewman4810 Жыл бұрын

Wish we had politicians in England who hold people to account & call them out when they are lying or talking bollocks.

@curtisbrown5939 Жыл бұрын

It literally makes me afraid when I hear someone from the government say "let's be clear"

@80cardcolumn Жыл бұрын

or "it's for public safety."

@curtisbrown5939 Жыл бұрын

@@80cardcolumn pubic safety 🤨

@assyholey4224 Жыл бұрын

we are here to help.

@BB-gr9hq Жыл бұрын

When you hear "It's for the Children" you are about to lose some freedoms, get fleeced, or both.

@jimhicks2976 Жыл бұрын

Yep let’s be clear means here’s mud in your eye.

@stevemt3238 Жыл бұрын

"It's a great question" that I'm not going to answer.

@martinburns7928 Жыл бұрын

Hey ! i haven't had questions i hadn't answered that were asked of me in answer to that question that i refuse to answer!

@UnitSe7en Жыл бұрын

Ah, the Maz Kanata defense. "A great question... For another time."

@richardspencer1682 Жыл бұрын

The witness has a frozen matrix

@stevemt3238 Жыл бұрын

@@richardspencer1682 ... of lies and deception.

@vernonharris1495 Жыл бұрын

In a nut shell here’s how the government works. All departments have a budget. At the end of each year, for the government it’s October to October, if each department doesn’t use up their entire budget it gets cut. So every department makes it a point to use up all of their budget each year so they don’t lose any funding. I know a guy that works on fort Gordon in Georgia in a maintenance capacity. Every October if his department is running under budget him and his coworkers have to go in and just sit on their butts and burn up time on the clock to eat up the remaining funds. He has seen tractor trailer loads of computer paper come onto the base and are taken straight to the landfill and dumped just to use up some departments budget. Old barracks that were slated to be torn down would be repainted and land scaped just because a high ranking officer was coming on base for a visit. My friend had countless stories of waste that he saw while working at fort Gordon. The government doesn’t need anymore taxpayer dollars, they need to cut out all of the waste. That’s it, I can’t think about it anymore. I need a beer.

@Lindyrect Жыл бұрын

I can 100 % verify this. In the Military we had Operational Target funds aka (OPTAR). If we did not spend it, the following year our budget would be cut. So as the end of the fiscal year came close, we would dream up of all kinds of unnecessary things to burn funds on. What the Government should be doing is incentivizing units that come out under budget.

@HeroicSheperd Жыл бұрын

Budgetary surplus adjustments shouldn’t happen though because you cannot always accurately predict year in cost needs. Take for example State DoT needs in New York. Every year they have a budget specifically allocated for snow plow and snow removal. Now, let’s say 2018 New York had an unusually dry winter with little to no snowfall resulting in huge underspending in plow usage, driver pay, salt, sand, etc….. should the following years have that budget suspended with the surplus difference? The same can be said of military usage comparing peace time to times of conflict. Army corps of engineers in years with little activity to those with a lot of natural disasters, flood, hurricane, tornado, etc….. budgets must be evaluated every year, that’s a given and I’m not disagreeing the military has its share of blatant wasteful spending, I’m very familiar with that aspect. However, these organizations do have a budget they need to remain consistent and surplus suspension is not an accurate measurement to come up with that budget.

@daveschif348 Жыл бұрын

I have a friend who worked for IRS. As a way of burning through budget $$$, they would arrange for employees on East coast going to a big meeting on West coast. In reverse....employees on West coast would be required to attend meeting on East coast. Airfare and expenses give hotels.

@stacase Жыл бұрын

Exactly! This goes on in every military command there is. "Make sure you spend every cent of your allocated budget by the end of the fiscal year. Because if you don't, you won't get that much next year."

@mmartin6841 Жыл бұрын

This is so wasteful. Regular people can't do this! We have to work and pay our bills! We need to take away the government's endless credit card!

@RedHorse-hm9yk Жыл бұрын

I have never seen the uniform more disgraced by the people in them than I see from the leaders these days, in my lifetime.

@partain2000 Жыл бұрын

The military leaders, yes I agree.

@atticuswalker8970 Жыл бұрын

People who support fascist leaders have never liked the us military.

@crxdelsolsir Жыл бұрын

Because external powers have corrupted the top echelons of various key departments. They have come out now and when the enemy reveals themselves they are confident on winning. So America is in trouble now the enemy has revealed itself. End game has begun.

@jamesp739 Жыл бұрын

As a general rule, when the government publishes a cost/benefit estimate, double the cost and cut the benefit in half and you might be close.

@purgethis1157 Жыл бұрын

The government doesn't do CBA's to evaluate, they do them to justify their desired outcome. fact.

@ucesfossil6188 Жыл бұрын

California's High Speed Rail: Hold my Bud Light.

@dasteelerfan1 Жыл бұрын

Triple the cost

@228justaround Жыл бұрын

I work in commercial construction on many military facility projects. The core of engineers is by far the most costly & least efficient group to work beside.

@williamgibb5557 Жыл бұрын

On the job training in relation to cost overruns! It is a government organization afterall.

@rachelbaziak4159 Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately I agree.

@colinadendorff4495 Жыл бұрын

Sure you do. You blame USACE for the cost when actually the acquisition vehicle is a design build. That is a contract where YOU set the price. Not USACE.

@RonSafreed Жыл бұрын

This is pure insanity!!

@purgethis1157 Жыл бұрын

@@colinadendorff4495 Save your BS, the COE tacks on 15% right off the top just to pretend to oversee the work.

@jamesmcd71 Жыл бұрын

I live on the Gulf coast. We have been trying to take an old two lane road and widen it to 4 lanes from I10 down to US 90. It's only been 7 years, the city has spent 16 million, and the state has spent 9 million. 4 environmental impact studies have been completed. Then, the Biden Infrastructure bill happened. Now, the fed DOT & the army Corp of engineers have taken over the project. The federal government puts 22 million into the project. Just weeks ago the DOT said this project was canceled because the state was unable to spend the additional 47 million required to complete the project. At this point, no actual work has been done on the road. 10 years 47 million spent now the Gov wants another 47 million to widen a 7 mile road. Every thought the project was paid in full all 25 million before the Gov took over.

@toomanyhobbies2011 Жыл бұрын

It's simple diversion of taxpayer funds to the bureaucracy, then back to the people who allocated those funds. They get rich and do whatever they want without repercussions.

@glennrishton5679 Жыл бұрын

Sounds a lot like Biloxi....

@SGLV1 Жыл бұрын

The misappropriation of funds is staggering!

@jamesmcd71 Жыл бұрын

@Glenn Rishton Close, about 10 miles west in Long Beach.

@glennrishton5679 Жыл бұрын

@@jamesmcd71 Hi Neighbor I'm in Gulfport.

@DMBall Жыл бұрын

"How was this compiled?" "At the last Christmas party."

@JeromeGardiner Жыл бұрын

Joe Biden worked this out while studying Mandarin on air force one.

@Nyleah-G Жыл бұрын

@@JeromeGardiner 😂

@rayburnyarborough4695 Жыл бұрын

Are you referring to the numerous Christmas parties they have so they can spend any remaining money allotted in the budget. Having to cut the next year’s budget would be a tragedy.

@TheBugkillah Жыл бұрын

If anyone knows anything about the army corp of engineers, it’s where colonels go to retire. They don’t do anything, they spend the last year or so, because they’re not promotable to general, pushing paper until they can collect retirement.

@pyrolight7568 Жыл бұрын

The speed at which he dodged the question was impressive.

@halielouya453 Жыл бұрын

@bobdayton9608 Жыл бұрын

Probably one of hussein's boys.

@jamesrobbins26 Жыл бұрын

He's good ain't he.

@brendalaveine7756 Жыл бұрын

Senator Kennedy you are a jewel and a Blessing to America. Shalom to you for the truth.

@daviddobson1113 Жыл бұрын

Lmao I remember a time when projects would come under estimated cost but we sure have not seen that for a long time. The simple answer to many fingers in the pie. Lord knows we have to much corruption and a lot of people in government have truly forgotten just who they work for.

@windrider65 Жыл бұрын

Or how to work at all.

@purgethis1157 Жыл бұрын

Most of them view it as an entitlement.

@23ravensby98 Жыл бұрын

You ain’t kidding. They invent jobs and regulations and agencies and so on… and every one needs its fees.

@daviddobson1113 Жыл бұрын

@@23ravensby98 I am an old man almost 70 and when I was a young man you bid a job you were held to that bid even if you lost money. When I was in the military I watch uncle Sam even back then pay triple for the stupidest shit like a mop handle it didn't take long for one to figure out some one in DC had the finger in that pie lol. They need to put a stop to the waist and abuse that goes on today in our government it is out of control.

@johnbeyer2211 Жыл бұрын

Bring in Trump to renegotiate the costs. I'll bet they finish the project in half the time and half the cost.

@connieeddy178 Жыл бұрын

AMEN!!!

@weshervey2202 Жыл бұрын

They could start by buying projectors for congress, I don’t know how many billboards I’ve seen every day with tweets and other hoo ha 😂😂

@mmartin6841 Жыл бұрын

Read The Art of the Deal which is a book about Trump. Trump is a genius!

@connieeddy178 Жыл бұрын

@@mmartin6841 Yes he is.

@judhudon6235 Жыл бұрын

Just imagine a United States Senate with 100 senators of the calibre of Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana. Oh, what a wonderful government we would have!

@terrygoodman5980 Жыл бұрын

Hold their feet to the fire and hold them accountable, and prosecute them!

@skitzdaniel3314 Жыл бұрын

What happens if you just don't allow people to develop those lands for living or commerce and don't move in. Move everyone out, turn it into a nature preserve or whatever, and save the 2.7 trillion dollars.

@julienhenri7296 Жыл бұрын

Im not even from nor live in the us, But it pisses me off seeing way to often these people saying we dont have the answers for you right now but will get back to you. What is the point of these if the can get away with that? How much does it cost tax payers for one of the sessions to give zero answers?

@carolv8450 Жыл бұрын

These ppl make money, in the thousands - nothing gets done, they still get paid. They are govt.

@MR-fq4zv Жыл бұрын

I will have to get back to you - No one has asked us about the use of funds since 1928. No one audits our spending on any of our projects.

@morganottlii2390 Жыл бұрын

You better have your ducks in a row when Sen. Kennedy complements you before he asks a question! Like a good lawyer, he already knows the answer.👍

@Head-ck4hu Жыл бұрын

I live in Georgia. The lakes that are run by the Corps. suck. Those run by Georgia Power Company are some of the greatest lakes in the country.

@cheez71 Жыл бұрын

Only proves out once again the statement that government does not and cannot produce anything of value. It only destroys and wastes.

@90000cg Жыл бұрын

Suuuurrrreee

@authorcharlieboring Жыл бұрын

Great question. The Corp needs to do its job in answering that.

@HoldenMcG Жыл бұрын

'Fuzzy math,' which can be shifted in any direction, makes for great/large bureaucracy.

@marshyburrows1094 Жыл бұрын

There is absolutely NO COMMON SENSE applied in these projects and/or the awarding of contracts for them. I have worked with the Corps for 30 years as a contractor. Absolute incompetence in everything they do.

@RohxAirsoft Жыл бұрын

Yup, you should read my comments I posted about the Core and there "efforts" on Rough River Lake. 😡

@ninaappelt9001 Жыл бұрын

And just run amok.

@bernadinedavenport2132 Жыл бұрын

Get better...what does that statement mean 🇺🇸🔥🇺🇸

@cobrakaineverdies4589 Жыл бұрын

One day I’d like to see something USEFUL not only discussed, but actually solved. Effin useless government

@johnprendergast1338 Жыл бұрын

How about the New Orleans levee system ...?

@90000cg Жыл бұрын

What about it.

@johnprendergast1338 Жыл бұрын

@@90000cg The levee system is sinking and requires constant maintenance which the Corp is responsible for...

@ghostly51 Жыл бұрын

Big promises with small results fixed by never ending big expenditures with bigger promises to make smaller mistakes next time. We are going broke by billions of small mistakes. Maddening

@freespirit922 Жыл бұрын

"WE NEED TO DO BETTER".....

@commoncentsamerican Жыл бұрын

ALL TALK NO ACTION

@dianabias3024 Жыл бұрын

GO KENNEDY GO U ARE ONE OF THE BEST IN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 🇺🇸 AMEN AN GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY 👪 🙏 ❤🤍💙

@michaelwalters7513 Жыл бұрын

Just get the price down , big time now , do it !

@Lee-iz3vb Жыл бұрын

Kenny is a national hero. He's like the Senate's version of Colombo. Love it

@ksagstertohi6156 Жыл бұрын

Who is Kenny?

@mobelue Жыл бұрын

One man speaking facetiously; one taking him seriously of the $2.7 trillion fallacy.

@philmccabe9547 Жыл бұрын

If the Old River Control Structure fails then that will be a very conservative estimate in economic damage. Instant depression for the USA and the world...

@Nahash5150 Жыл бұрын

This is government 101. If your 'expenses' come down, your budget gets cut. So you ALWAYS spend more than you have and project more than you need.

@crlheureux Жыл бұрын

How much have they caused? I bet more than they saved. Plus paying $1000 for a shovel no one will use.

@grandmaoldschool7011 Жыл бұрын

Since 1928?

@user-pw9lj8tq5g Жыл бұрын

Make HIM read it !!

@newyorkheart Жыл бұрын

Great point by Kennedy. Absolutely brilliant way to approach the point. Really hammers home the absurdity the claim the General makes about their internal procedures.

@rayray9571 Жыл бұрын

In the old days they always finished projects faster and under budget. I don't know what's going on nowadays

@aceman1969nlb Жыл бұрын

ROCK ON KENNEDY!!👍👍

@Paulco67 Жыл бұрын

We need 100 John Kennedys in the Senate

@saifonlawrence2044 Жыл бұрын

Good work Forbes News...my go to news since im done now with Fox.

@loriredding2052 Жыл бұрын

Senator kennedy is the best!! He always gets them stupified!!

@kerrilammert1103 Жыл бұрын

I live 1/2 mile from Mississippi River in Mo. Every year from rain fall up North, flooding comes. Many levies been made, made towns flood worst. The mighty river will flow, it's nature.

@cigarmerchant2238 Жыл бұрын

Love how even when Senator Kennedy gets something wrong, he gets it right and finally a General who knows what he is talking about and has a genuine interest in doing the right thing by the American people.

@joeh.3135 Жыл бұрын

The printing presses are old and worn with production expectations soaring it's obvious the only more effective option is digital , until the electricity is turned off .

@b_uppy Жыл бұрын

On the subject of managing water for loss prevention, frequent rainwater harvesting catchments made from onsite materials mitigate flooding, droughts, heatwaves, slides, desertification, ground subsidence, wildfires, etc. We nwed people to do the research and learn to make the bunds, swales, bioswales, checkdams, keylining, etc Getting away from conventional ag practives makes a difference as well. Monocropping; annual crops; tilling/fallow/plowing; synthetic chemical pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers; overgrazing and graining or grain finishing (in the case of poultry only allowing premixed feed) all contribute to the death of soil and subsequent flooding, soil loss, soil carbon loss, etc.

@OG-GHOST2 Жыл бұрын

I have a question for my political so called leaders...I served in afghanistan 08-09 for 15 long exruciating months. I left my 7 day old son wanting to serve my country and fellow man. I was married with 2 kids and went through basic TRAINING and something called AIT advanced indavidual training. I ended up being the sole honor graduate in 60 some students due to physical athleticism and academic achievement. My speciality was carpententry and mason specialist that fell under the US ARMY CORP OF ENGINEERS. I got to meet and work alongside several civilian federal contractors who had little to no experiance never went to basic or AIT and overall they had no special redeeming qualities at all. They simply applied for the job online right? So when i found out my civilian counterpart was making over 100k a year staying in nice air conditioned extra fortifed rooms not having to deal with half the nonsense soldiers did. Here i am as a soldier barely clearing 30k a year. Also civilians would get 3 vacations a year to fly baxk to america to see their familys. Soldiers got one. Now i could just gripe about the pay issue and consider the extreme disparitys but whats more valid is if whoever was overseeing the mission at hand wantee to do the mission as cost effective as possible why were we told to stand down on jobs just so that civilian would have something to write on his job sheet? To think if you have a job and you havw a more qualified better trained armed soldier to do a job for 30k a year but instead you pay someone whos not even been to boot camp 100k a year? Ive been asking this for years and i was just a grunt. I know the brass in the army also had to see this and say nothing but they should. I just simply want to know why?

@UnitSe7en Жыл бұрын

Optics. ...Oh, and feefees.

@OG-GHOST2 Жыл бұрын

Wow! I'm shocked this is visible haha I've posted this maybe 10 or so times over the last 10 years and it normally cannot even be seen by anyone. I guess there is so much talk now they figure why bother silencing this veteran anymore haha

@sharonbruno7873 Жыл бұрын

Hey general, if it was your money you would make sure it was spent better. How much went in your pocket?

@JanetPendley-sy9yn Жыл бұрын

Unaccountability of tax dollars,just ambiguous answers.

@fredericksharon7494 Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@RohxAirsoft Жыл бұрын

The ACoE is currently working on our lake in Kentucky and have dropped the summer fill by about 5ft.....which has effectively removed dock access for 60% of the homes. They said it may take 10 years or longer before they fix the problem at the dam to raise the levels back..... they have likely destroyed virtually all the property values for the homes surrounding that lake. Who wants to own a lake home with no dock for 10+ years and good luck selling said property. 😡

@kellyrogers1765 Жыл бұрын

We have to get better at our cost estimates ‼️ Seriously that's your answer

@jop4691 Жыл бұрын

Army Corps of Engineers is great outfit. Can't speak for their command staff, but their "grunts" are awesome and really do great work keeping our waterways navigable

@90000cg Жыл бұрын

The engineers are good but they have not control. It should be called corps of environmentalists

@lavrentichudakoff2519 Жыл бұрын

If you don't want to get flooded don't live on the water and low lying areas.

@martinburns7928 Жыл бұрын

Hey! i haven't had questions asked of me that i hadn't answered in answer of that question that i refuse to answer!

@thebikeracer Жыл бұрын

The general just described how Congress money launders tax money from us.

@atticuswalker8970 Жыл бұрын

Any bid from private contractors should require public disclosure of accounts .

@petersciacca9474 Жыл бұрын

These hearings are a waste of time and money

@jqpublic9777 Жыл бұрын

How refreshing. A "Biden" official who is conversant with the projects his office oversees, answers questions more or less honestly and even acknowledges shortcomings when he has a reasonable explanation that he explained coherently without making speeches to evade the issues. Bravo!

@JWPeace_4MyBoys Жыл бұрын

I AM SORRY THAT THEY HAVE DISRESPECTED YOU SIR!!

@apollo8688 Жыл бұрын

As a Veteran this is very disappointing. If I, as a NCO, use that line in front of a general, they would hand my ass to me.

@stevechancey167 Жыл бұрын

Legend!

@klars3207 Жыл бұрын

We need a bigger budget. We're the government, you can trust us.

@criticalmass613 Жыл бұрын

Remember when the US military was once respected and revered?

@90000cg Жыл бұрын

Affirmative action, woke ideology and environmentalists killed it.

@3coins. Жыл бұрын

What about Louisiana? Thank you Senator.

@user-vq9kn2ix4n 10 ай бұрын

It would appear that THIS individual is somehow COMPLISANT with this out-of-control misappropriation, either indirectly or directly!!😮

@jgesselberty Жыл бұрын

The Army Corps of Engineers is a joke. I was president of our Homeowner's Association and we wanted to put a simple mulch path through a common area, so that our members could reach a small pond for fishing. The Corps threatened us with fines and individual fines on every homeowner bordering the area of the pond. They said it was a protected wetlands. And, the following year, hundreds of acres of wetlands just down the road were suddenly drained and shopping areas were built. Wonder who got paid off for that?

@mmartin6841 Жыл бұрын

And BOOM they had $500,000,000 just like that. Americans deserve transparency on all expenditures!

@bernadinedavenport2132 Жыл бұрын

Unexcusable!!! Let's look at Mississippi River now...

@thewalkingdead4378 Жыл бұрын

I ❤ Sen. KENNEDY

@davidturk6170 Жыл бұрын

Remember USACE cannot spend what congress does not fund (with a few monitor maintenance items). And the list of projects USACE works is generated with a sponsoring congressman/woman.

@Darden7465 Жыл бұрын

Love me some John Kennedy!

@pappydaddy7447 Жыл бұрын

Sen. Kennedy is comparing two completely different types of estimates.

@martyblack7245 Жыл бұрын

What I know about Army Engineering Corps. Is there was a section of border wall they spent years studying & said that the wall could not be built there it was impossible. A private company did it in less than a year, with a service road included. I live in East Tn. There is a lake here that was losing water they couldn’t figure out how to fix it. The Corp. spent 10yrs on it & didn’t fix it. A college from out west came in & figured it out in less than 6months. I think it is a way to hid funds if you ask me

@marieabineau Жыл бұрын

thats one way to keep your job...overstate your importance...

@thomasjacques5286 Жыл бұрын

I'm from the government and here to help.....

@wilsdeb Жыл бұрын

Pointing out Waste of Tax Monies by the Numb

@jonjorstad2061 Жыл бұрын

Grateful for Sen. Kennedy

@brownro214 Жыл бұрын

I'd say LTG Spellmon has a better handle on what his department is doing than most other US Army generals though he doesn't have all the answers. His staff definitely needs to explain why a project cost went up $500 million in taxpayer money. An interesting item for casual observers: LTG Spellmon is wearing Engineer branch insignia on his lapels (the badge that looks like a castle). Other generals wear no branch insignia. The Chief of Engineers, as I recall, is the only general officer to do so.

@jimzimmerman5288 Жыл бұрын

Typical government contracts always exceed the beginning cost.

@stephenflowers8516 Жыл бұрын

You know all these medals, Stars on the shoulders etc used to impress me. But then Vindman came along and they are now meaningless.

@glennrishton5679 Жыл бұрын

I made a comment recently somewhere about our military "leaders' I pointed out that in September 1941 Dwight D Eisenhower was promoted to Brigadier General but by 1945 he was General of the Army. Eisenhower did a pretty damn good job in leading the defeat of the Axis in North Africa and Europe. Perhaps it is time to find some bright Colonels/ Brigadier Generals and fire these star studded politicians.

@Jonascord Жыл бұрын

@@glennrishton5679 Clinton, Bush, Obama spent a lot of time and effort finding politically reliable military staff, and RIFing out the ones who took the Oath seriously. You want to throw them out?

@Breeze0911 Жыл бұрын

Oh, Mr. Kennedy. The 'simplistic' clear thought process you have, when all this cluster of non thinking, to cut clear through, is amazing and appreciated Economics 101.

@timcunningham6932 Жыл бұрын

Army corps of engineers does a good job!

@lonniehuston7700 Жыл бұрын

My family love Mr Kennedy . Smart man who believes in America. God Bless you sir.

@stevenmarquardt3900 Жыл бұрын

He all shined up

@tommywingate2220 Жыл бұрын

When I asked why the jet fuel was being dumped near the end of a USN cruise I was told about how the military budget was a factor. My first ray of reality.