June 12, 2015

The Pentagon Doesn’t Know What it Spent 8.5 Trillion Dollars on

When government is completely dysfunctional and seems not to serve the people’s interests, we have to wonder where our tax dollars are going. Thanks to a Reuters investigation by Scot Paltrow, we have an answer—or, rather, a non-answer. Apparently, the Pentagon has made use of $8.5 trillion of our tax money handed over by Congress since 1996—but don’t ask what was done with the money. The Department of Defense doesn’t have a clue.
Audits of all federal agencies were mandated by law beginning in 1996, but the Pentagon is unique in never having complied. In almost 20 years, the Pentagon has never accounted for trillions it spent, in part because “plugging”—fudging the numbers—is standard operating procedure.
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2 comments:

  1. "8.5 Trillion."

    Therre's no such amount outside paper. The Feds / MSM are trying to scam us, thinking that we believe them. These two - the Feds & the MSM are hand in-glove together, since forever.

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  2. That was illustrated by CNBC anchor Erin Burnett acting shocked when it was reported that the House originally voted down the bailout bill. The one that Nancy Pelosi was getting 1000 calls to 1 against it, and still voted for it.

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