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$10 Trillion Missing From Pentagon and No One — Not Even the DOD — Knows Where It Is
Restoring Liberty by Joe Miller ^
| 3/26/17
| by Claire Bernish
Posted on 03/27/2017 12:18:33 PM PDT by blueyon
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To: blueyon
I know a guy who works at the DOD as an auditor. He shows up and gets awards for “finding and saving” millions.
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posted on
03/27/2017 1:10:53 PM PDT
by
Terry Mross
(Liver spots And blood thinners.)
To: blueyon
Over a mere two decades, the Pentagon lost track of a mind-numbing $10 trillion You can tell from the first line that this is wrong. That would be $500 billion a year. The current defense budget is only around $600 billion. $10 trillion is more than the whole defense budget for the past 20 years. They might be losing track of a lot of money. But they are not losing track of every cent they get.
To: blueyon
Ten-thousand-billion dollars missing from the DOD, but everyone agrees that 15 billion is just too much to spend on a wall.....
To: blueyon
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posted on
03/27/2017 1:29:01 PM PDT
by
Faith65
(Isaiah 40:31)
To: Gargantua
If you laid one trillion dollars end to end, they would reach the Sun and back again
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posted on
03/27/2017 1:29:57 PM PDT
by
atc23
(The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
To: Strac6
I was waiting for someone to call "bullsh*t" on the economic aspect of this story. You are the first to challenge this story.
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posted on
03/27/2017 2:03:42 PM PDT
by
DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
To: blueyon
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posted on
03/27/2017 2:06:56 PM PDT
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: blueyon
That’s right. That’s a lot of money. That sounds like most of what had been appropriated to the DOD. Hopefully sloppy accounting.
To: blueyon
How do they know it was lost, and how do they know how much?
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posted on
03/27/2017 2:12:27 PM PDT
by
Travis T. OJustice
(<---Time Magazine's 2006 Person of the Year)
To: wideminded
I think it is because since the law passed that they had to pass an audit yearly, they have failed to comply with the law every single year because they lack basic management and accounting controls. Therefore, nothing they spend has been ‘accounted for’ because it is not verifiable.
We have spent around 10 trillion dollars over that time btw on the military. That’s where the number comes from.
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posted on
03/27/2017 2:16:52 PM PDT
by
jimnm
To: DiogenesLamp
First year of law school the first great teacher loved to shout whenever you made an unsupported/unsupportable statement:
Who says so ? ! ? ! ?
.... and we rarely had an answer.
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posted on
03/27/2017 2:17:14 PM PDT
by
Strac6
("We sleep safe in our beds only because rough men stand ready to visit violence on the enemy.")
To: DiogenesLamp
Sam Donaldson's favorite advice to young reporters was
"If your mother says she loves you, check it out!"
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posted on
03/27/2017 2:20:04 PM PDT
by
Strac6
("We sleep safe in our beds only because rough men stand ready to visit violence on the enemy.")
To: blueyon
The reason they don’t want a honest president, they don’t want to lose their tax payer piggy bank.
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posted on
03/27/2017 2:24:17 PM PDT
by
just me
(God bless President Trump and the USA)
To: ryderann
My NSA buddies say it is one of the best chicken dishes they have ever had!
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posted on
03/27/2017 2:27:43 PM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
("Try is the first step to failure." Homer Simpson.)
To: blueyon
Did they lose some? Probably. Did most of it go to bribes and black ops? Probably.
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posted on
03/27/2017 2:33:58 PM PDT
by
vigilence
(Vigilence)
To: mad_as_he$$
Thank you for the good laugh!
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posted on
03/27/2017 2:38:50 PM PDT
by
ryderann
To: blueyon
Takes a lot of money to spy on a population of 330 million.
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posted on
03/27/2017 2:50:23 PM PDT
by
unixfox
(Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
To: blueyon
And how much was wasted, in the past 20 years, on Gibsmedat programs?
We may have a thorough accounting of the redistribution of wealth, but it’s still utterly wrong.
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posted on
03/27/2017 2:52:34 PM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
To: Personal Responsibility
Senator Robert Kinsey might know?
To: Licensed-To-Carry
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