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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 3519313" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p><a href="https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-pentagon-cant-account-for-21-trillion/" target="_blank">The Pentagon Can't Account for $21 Trillion (That's Not a Typo)</a></p><p></p><p>A couple of years ago, Mark Skidmore, an economics professor, heard <a href="https://twitter.com/TheSolariReport?lang=en" target="_blank">Catherine Austin Fitts</a>, former assistant secretary in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, say that the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General had found <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/kotlikoff/2017/12/08/has-our-government-spent-21-trillion-of-our-money-without-telling-us/#161e89207aef" target="_blank">$6.5 trillion worth of unaccounted-for spending</a> in 2015.</p><p></p><p>The expenses with <em>no explanation</em> were 54 times the actual budget allotted by Congress. Well, it’s good to see Congress is doing 1/54th of its job of overseeing military spending (that’s actually more than I thought Congress was doing). <strong>This would seem to mean that 98 percent of every dollar spent by the Army in 2015 was unconstitutional.</strong></p><p></p><p>Right now,<strong> the <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/08/569394885/pentagon-announces-first-ever-audit-of-the-department-of-defense" target="_blank">Pentagon is being audited</a> for the first time ever,</strong> and it’s taking 2,400 auditors to do it. I’m not holding my breath that they’ll actually be allowed to get to the bottom of this.</p><p></p><p>Once these trillions are considered, our fiat currency has even less meaning than it already does, and it’s only a matter of time before inflation runs wild.</p><p></p><p>It also means that any time our government says it “doesn’t have money” for a project, it’s laughable. It can clearly “create” as much as it wants for bombing and death. This would explain how Donald Trump’s military can drop well over <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/trump-era-record-number-bombs-dropped-middle-east-667505" target="_blank">100 bombs a day</a> that cost well north of $1 million each.</p><p></p><p>Twenty-one trillion.</p><p></p><p>Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates spoke about how no one knows where the money is flying in the Pentagon. In a barely reported <a href="https://youtu.be/UmBuzfKnFQc" target="_blank">speech in 2011</a>, he said, “My staff and I learned that <strong>it was nearly impossible to get accurate information and answers to questions such as, ‘How much money did you spend?’ and ‘How many people do you have?’ <em>”</em></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 3519313, member: 56035"] [URL="https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-pentagon-cant-account-for-21-trillion/"]The Pentagon Can't Account for $21 Trillion (That's Not a Typo)[/URL] A couple of years ago, Mark Skidmore, an economics professor, heard [URL='https://twitter.com/TheSolariReport?lang=en']Catherine Austin Fitts[/URL], former assistant secretary in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, say that the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General had found [URL='https://www.forbes.com/sites/kotlikoff/2017/12/08/has-our-government-spent-21-trillion-of-our-money-without-telling-us/#161e89207aef']$6.5 trillion worth of unaccounted-for spending[/URL] in 2015. The expenses with [I]no explanation[/I] were 54 times the actual budget allotted by Congress. Well, it’s good to see Congress is doing 1/54th of its job of overseeing military spending (that’s actually more than I thought Congress was doing). [B]This would seem to mean that 98 percent of every dollar spent by the Army in 2015 was unconstitutional.[/B] Right now,[B] the [URL='https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/08/569394885/pentagon-announces-first-ever-audit-of-the-department-of-defense']Pentagon is being audited[/URL] for the first time ever,[/B] and it’s taking 2,400 auditors to do it. I’m not holding my breath that they’ll actually be allowed to get to the bottom of this. Once these trillions are considered, our fiat currency has even less meaning than it already does, and it’s only a matter of time before inflation runs wild. It also means that any time our government says it “doesn’t have money” for a project, it’s laughable. It can clearly “create” as much as it wants for bombing and death. This would explain how Donald Trump’s military can drop well over [URL='http://www.newsweek.com/trump-era-record-number-bombs-dropped-middle-east-667505']100 bombs a day[/URL] that cost well north of $1 million each. Twenty-one trillion. Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates spoke about how no one knows where the money is flying in the Pentagon. In a barely reported [URL='https://youtu.be/UmBuzfKnFQc']speech in 2011[/URL], he said, “My staff and I learned that [B]it was nearly impossible to get accurate information and answers to questions such as, ‘How much money did you spend?’ and ‘How many people do you have?’ [I]”[/I][/B] [/QUOTE]
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