we were all told from the time we could understand that we could grow up to be anything we wanted to be that we could have whatever we wanted to have if we worked hard now for whatever reason were being told that this is no longer true income inequality getting yourself on the right side of the equation from spending 150 million on private villas for a handful of personnel in afghanistan to blowing 27 billion on an air surveillance balloon that doesnt work the latest revelations of waste at the pentagon are just the most recent howlers in a long line of similar stories stretching back at least five decades how not to audit the pentagon