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43. Accounting dept of Pentagon, i presume? n/t

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Wed Mar 25, 2015, 01:34 PM

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With $8.5 Trillion Unaccounted for, Why Should Congress Increase the Defense Budget? [View all] Ichingcarpenter Mar 2015 OP

To get their own chunk of the next $8.5 trillion? [n/t] Maedhros Mar 2015 #1

So how does the military handle their books for the U.S. Treasury department? They cheat. Octafish Mar 2015 #2

Missing or funneled to black projects? Ichingcarpenter Mar 2015 #6

When the Military or the Police to it, it's NEVER a crime. -nt- 99th_Monkey Mar 2015 #34

K&R nt Guy Whitey Corngood Mar 2015 #3

Wow. That's way up from the $1.5 trillion Rummy found missing on 9/10/01. leveymg Mar 2015 #4

Rumsfeld held a press conference on 9/10/01. SamKnause Mar 2015 #29

What's $800 million, here or there? ;-) leveymg Mar 2015 #33

I love posting this... mikeysnot Mar 2015 #39

Accounting dept of Pentagon, i presume? n/t yodermon Mar 2015 #43

Ya gotta fund the classified part of the budget somehow.... (nt) jeff47 Mar 2015 #5

Kickin' Faux pas Mar 2015 #7

Imagine the outrage if this money were "missing" from Medicare or food stamps. n/t winter is coming Mar 2015 #8

Freedumb ain't free! progressoid Mar 2015 #9

From the same congress still chiseling nickels Blue_Tires Mar 2015 #10

we'd have to spend it on labor, health, education, infrastructure, art, and science! MisterP Mar 2015 #11

Nope.... Sparhawk60 Mar 2015 #25

Any other place and time, that would be automatic grounds for an investigation Rex Mar 2015 #12

This message was self-deleted by its author Adam051188 Mar 2015 #13

Agreed Sherman A1 Mar 2015 #14

You mean the five-sided RATHOLE, is what you meant to say. That's its ACTUAL function.. Volaris Mar 2015 #18

When the US flies pallets of money to Iraq and it LuckyLib Mar 2015 #15

Bush's people explained that. It's because Iraq at the time had "third world accounting." tclambert Mar 2015 #45

Republicon military junta is above accountability ErikJ Mar 2015 #16

K&R B Calm Mar 2015 #17

Insanity maindawg Mar 2015 #19

And we know there's not a goddamn thing that can or will be done about it BrotherIvan Mar 2015 #20

This is why I am drifting far away from the Democratic party. F4lconF16 Mar 2015 #21

Agreed BrotherIvan Mar 2015 #22

I've become cynical in under 2. F4lconF16 Mar 2015 #24

Greg Palast's Armed Madhouse had all kinds of examples SomethingFishy Mar 2015 #23

$8.5 trillion out of a $10.1 trillion budget are unaccounted for???????? DetlefK Mar 2015 #26

Yet we can't afford to educate our children, to heal our sick or care for our elderly. Scuba Mar 2015 #27

You would think those in power would feel some shame and embarrassment /nt think Mar 2015 #28

afghan rock cutters. my son is a rock hound. there are a lot of rocks coming out mopinko Mar 2015 #30

the hell w auditing the fed. audit the pentagon. mopinko Mar 2015 #31

As we saw with Reagan...if you don't fund them, they'll do something illegal to get it. HereSince1628 Mar 2015 #32

+1 uponit7771 Mar 2015 #35

k and r niyad Mar 2015 #36

You NEVER hear the terms "pay for", "austerity", or "deficit" in relation to the military budget. bullwinkle428 Mar 2015 #37

It's easy. Who are the 10 richest people in the world? They have it! nt valerief Mar 2015 #38

One word people: Stargate knightmaar Mar 2015 #40

I'm dying. F4lconF16 Mar 2015 #42

MIC - a way to siphon the treasury to the 1%. CrispyQ Mar 2015 #41

That amounts to $472 Billion per year, or $3,715 per taxpayer per year. closeupready Mar 2015 #44