Audit Reveals the Pentagon Doesn’t Know Where $6.5 Trillion Dollars Has Gone

Free Thought Project ^ | 8/8/2016 | jJay Syrmopoulos

[HomerBohn]

District of Corruption. Hillary is the most corrupt woman in history. Don't look for her to find solution to problems as she is a walking catastrophe.

[odawg]

I think the $6.5 trillion would probably be $6.5 billion.

[ganeemead]

A black-op manned space program would account for at least some of that money. Recent Mars/MSL images seem to imply that.

[Baldwin77]

Iran?

[heterosupremacist]

A billion here, a billion there - before you know it you’re talking about a tidy sum...

[John O]

While losing any amount of money, or the accountability for that money, is a big deal, what if anything does the last paragraph have to do with this article? Why bring Obama’s incredible ineptitude into the discussion?

[exDemMom]

While the Department of Defense can’t account for $6.5 trillion dollars of taxpayer funds, in 2014 there were 47 million people, including over 15 million children, living in poverty in the U.S. – 15% of the U.S. population, which is the largest total number in poverty since records began being kept 52 years ago.

I think this is the real point of the article. Drum up some nonsense about how the DoD is throwing away billions of dollars, and then drag out the same old meme that society could be perfect and poverty could be eliminated if only that money being spent on defense were used on poverty instead.

That meme is a lie (just like the entire article, IMO). Of the three social spending items at the www.usdebtclock.org website, defense spending is lower than two of them. There is more spent on defense than straight-up wealth transfers, but the medicaid/medicare and social security both dwarf defense spending.

The only way we can get out of the budgetary mess is to shift the responsibility for supporting themselves back to people, not to subsidize more poverty.

[silverleaf]

I agree

[Gaffer]

Actually, this is how these buildings and facilities magically appear on the DC skyline with no paperwork.....

There are so many code-worded and compartmentalized programs whose purpose seems to be hiding the actual spending from Congress and watchdogs.

[dp0622]

Time to move my account off shore.

[Drago]

Hmmmmm the Pentagon “Black Budget” is $50-60 billion/year...how many years are they talkin’?

[thinden]

I thought the $6.5 billion was what is unaccounted for at state dept?

if DOD is in the jug for $6.5 trillion would that bring the national debt to $26 trillion?

who’s in charge of this circus anyway?

[wastedyears]

A black-op manned space program would account for at least some of that money. Recent Mars/MSL images seem to imply that.

What do you mean by that? Can't 'sneak' a rocket launch in.

[Enchante]

It doesn’t mean more money has been spent (adding to national debt), it means the money already known to be spent has not been properly tracked and accounted for. Still a gigantic scandal, but not an addition to the national debt beyond what is already known.

[Montana_Sam]

I think the $6.5 trillion would probably be $6.5 billion.

It is interesting that the published report (available as a .pdf) includes the 'trillion' figure throughout. I wonder if you are right and the report drafters/authors are fudged-up space cowboys.

[IronJack]

Black.
Ops.

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

Yes, the last paragraph shows undermines the entire article. Education or infrastructure improvements at least have the potential to bring returns unlike the rat’s hole of permanent government subsidized living.

[odawg]

The yearly defense budget is about $600 billion. It would take quite a few years for the defense department to fund defense and also have a few trillion dollars left over unused to lose.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

Let’s see, what could America’s enemies purchase with $6.5 trillion (or billion)dollars? Hmmm.

[JimRed]

Who is retiring fabulously wealthy on a mid-level bureaucrat’s, general’s or admiral’s pay?