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In reply to the discussion: Pentagon can't account for 8.5trillion in the last decade and a half.... [View all]Treant
(1,968 posts)6. No we're not FKY.
Let's see, that's over $1,500 per American per year for the last decade. Over fifteen thousand dollars just gone and "nobody knows where."
Per tax payer over that period, it's considerably higher. I'm too depressed to do the math, however.
Putting just that into perspective, the American government could have sent every single American a friggin' check for $1,500 to spend as we saw fit, providing a gigantic boost to the economy every single year for the last decade.
And that's just what was "lost." Scare quotes because I'm sure there are plenty of people who know exactly where it went and made a great living either on it or getting it there.
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Pentagon can't account for 8.5trillion in the last decade and a half.... [View all]
Lobo27
Nov 2013
OP
They stacked 100 dollar bills on pallets and shipped them to our enemies, trying to buy "friends."
blkmusclmachine
Nov 2013
#5
And they're trying to steal it out of your Social Security Net, via the "Grand Bargain."
blkmusclmachine
Nov 2013
#7
A trillion here, a trillion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money
Major Nikon
Nov 2013
#11
That's right, of course. But, whenever I see DoD figures, I remember that Robert Fulghum quote.
Fridays Child
Nov 2013
#22
If you can't account for it, then it fits perfectly under the meme, which includes incompetence
Major Nikon
Nov 2013
#29
How? It's called privatization. The information is proprietary and not public for all intents. Small
freshwest
Nov 2013
#18
The story is rather more careless with its claims than the DoD is with its accounting
bhikkhu
Nov 2013
#21
If they turned these on full power in port, the damage would be incredible.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2013
#39
Exactly. Imagine being berthed next to an aircraft carrier and turning this on
jmowreader
Dec 2013
#40