Pilate
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Right because government organizations can do no wrong.I read some of those stupid stories like the one about destroying $16 billion in ammunitionAnd goes on to provide examples and testimonies suggesting that there is fraud and negligence going on in the DoD. Since when is right wing propaganda pushing for less money to be pumped into the military industrial complex ?They claim that because some audit was not conducted, every dollar over twenty years has been lostThe article never actually stated at what point the waste started, the fact is the numbers presented in that chart were merely representative of spending during those given years. Even if the waste was only $1,000,000,000,000 that would still be enough to give everyone in this country about $3,000.You know, the average idiot (though I must admit that most of our liberal posters definitely aren't average) would know this story to be absolutely false simply by the math.
If we look at their chart, it would be reasonable to estimate that the DoD budget for the 17 years listed is about $500 billion/year, or in sum, $8.5 trillion in total - which just happens to be the amount in the "headline"
That means, the OP posits that every dollar spent on defense is unaccounted for. Not a single paycheck, not a single bullet, not a single gallon of gas, not a single airplane, ship, or tank is accounted for.
Forgive me if I snicker.
Quit backpedaling .... the article says "$8.5 trillion unaccounted for"
Pretty sure that's what it meant - $8.5 trillion is unaccounted for.
What a ridiculous piece of puffery.
Gullibility all around