25%+ of all Pentagon money is unaccounted for

[DogPoundPup]

The Pentagon receives the lion's share of the US tax payer's dollars.

36% goes to current military expenses. 18% goes to what's called "past military" which includes veteran's pensions and medical benefits.

The US spends more on its military than the following countries COMBINED: China, Russia, Britain, France, Japan, Germany, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, India, Brazil, Italy, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, and Indonesia.

Where does the money go?

At least 25% - and some estimates are much higher - goes down a rat hole unaccounted for and never to been seen again.

The above news report ran the day before September 11, 2001. The problem since then has become exponentially worse.

You can see the numbers here:
http://www.warresisters.org/pages/piechart.htm

[Arctic Dave]

1. The Pentagon should have it's budget cut to a quarter

of what it is today. Fuck the war machine.

[bemildred]

2. Zero.

Let's have a couple years of serious re-prioritizing.

[Arctic Dave]

3. OK, you win.

[hack89]

8. You would not fund pensions and veteran benefits?

Why?

[azul]

9. No, death to war, you don't want to help it reproduce.

Even though the machine isn't really alive, be careful, because it is composed of corporations, and some dumb-ass supreme court has ruled that corporations are "persons" with many rights. And this "personhood" monkeybusiness has gone on unchallenged for too long.

[xtychx]

4. Black Ops (NT)

K+R

[bertman]

5. DogPoundPup, you keep bringing up unpleasantries like this and you might get adopted--

by the wrong people.

[DogPoundPup]

7. Damn!!!!!!! I forgot to link the source for this post and it HAS THE VIDEO OF THE CBS NEWS REPORT

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/396.html

Yea, I know bertman.

[babylonsister]

6. Can these figures be seen anywhere else? If not, they should be. nt

[DFW]

10. Oh, it's pretty much acxcounted for.

Just because they don't tell the public doesn't mean they don't know where it is.

[file83]

12. Let me guess....Swiss bank accounts?

:cry:

[DFW]

13. No way

For over 10 years now, the Swiss have been under such pressure, they gave
up the big stuff like that. After being the nest egg of the likes of Marcos
of the Philippines, Noriega of Panama, half the Medellín cartel, as well as
being accused of minting their own gold coins 1947-1949 out of Nazi-extracted
gold teeth, they had enough of miserable publicity, and instituted such stringent
scrutiny of foreigners having big money there that unless you made the money
legitimately and were just avoiding taxes on the interest back home, they
don't want to know you. The Swiss are no fools, and know as well as we do
what January 20, 2009 means.

These funds, stolen from us by Cheney's buddies, are more likely to be found in
the Cayman Islands (Halliburton mailbox subsidiary there), Liechtenstein, or
the UAE, where Halliburton is relocating its world HQ from Texas (good timing, hmm?).

[Bandit]

14. What about the tons of shrink wrapped hundred dollar bills

Eight billion dollars to be exact, all shrink wrapped and palletized and loaded on four huge C-5 Cargo jets and whisked off to Iraq never to be seen or heard from again? :shrug: Largest cash heist in this country's history.

[file83]

11. Watch this video of Cynthia McKinney trying to get answers about this from Rumsfeld...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RvLL--vSsA

Jaw dropper. She paints these people into a corner and watch them avoid answering the question of where $2.3 Trillion dollars went. They won't answer who a computer accounting software company is that they have paid $20 billion to. No wonder they found Cynthia's weak spot and pushed her button to make her lose it. They didn't like reps asking questions like this.

[MadrasT]

15. Enraged SQUEAK!

:wtf: Why do they keep getting more $$$ if they can't 'splain wtf they did with the money we already let them have?

[dysfunctional press]

16. sounds like they need a 25% budget cut...

they only get the money they can account for.