Hasn't the Pentagon lost track of over $1TRILLION dollars?

[paparush]

Maybe they can bailout Wall Street.

[IndyOp]

1. K&R. (n/t)

[wildbilln864]

2. yes, a lot over. ..

September 10th, 2001 Rumsfeld announced $2.3 trillion missing. How much since then is anyone's guess.

[eShirl]

5. that is an interesting date

[wildbilln864]

8. yes, isn't it! nt

[petgoat]

13. An interesting date indeed.

And according to the History Commons project, Insight Magazine reported that
people responsible for tracking the missing funds just happened to be among
those killed in the 9/11 attack the next day.

In April 2002 it will be revealed that $1.1 trillion of the missing money comes from the 2000 fiscal year. Auditors won’t even quantify how much money is missing from fiscal year 2001, causing “some fear it’s worse” than 2000. The Department of the Army will state that it won’t publish a stand-alone financial statement for 2001 because of “the loss of financial-management personnel sustained during the Sept. 11 terrorist attack.”

http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a091001defensebudget#a091001defensebudget

[PDJane]

3. yes. They've lost 2.5 trillion dollars that they admit to.

We don't know what's actually going on for the last few years.

[paparush]

4. That's what I thought. I knew the figure was higher than $1 Trillion.

Jesus H. Lawnchair. Think of the schools, libraries, health clinics, gads..I can't stomach it.

[Joe Chi Minh]

6. It's very bad manners to bring up things like that, you know....

[Sherman A1]

7. Perhaps they could also draft

the CEO's as a condition of bailing them out. I can think of all sorts of nice, productive things this group could be doing...

[wildbilln864]

10. clearing IEDs comes to mind. nt

[Sherman A1]

15. That's an option

something like... Here's a stick - Get Busy!

[rucky]

9. We just gave them another $622 Billion to blow.

just last week. no questions asked.

[paparush]

12. Yes. That's the number they are willing to publish. We'll never know what goes into dark projects.

[bertman]

11. hasn't the Pentagon lost track of over ONE TRILLION DOLLARS?

How would they know? They're too busy spending, justifying, and wasting the other TRILLIONS.

[SammyWinstonJack]

14. I believe it's some where in the neighborhood of $1 to $ 2 Trillion.

A Trillion here, A Trillion there, soon you're talking real numbers. :shrug: No money for Universal Health care, no money for 10 million poor children and on and on and on, but the fat cats on Wall Street who pulled off a successful bank heist need their bail out RIGHT FUCKING NOW!

[avaistheone1]

17. Yes, it's about 2 trillion that the Pentagon just can't seem to find, and no one has the political

will to challenge them to do so.

Quite a slush fund, eh?

[paparush]

18. Yes..and if they'll own that number, imagine what the real number must be.

[Gregorian]

16. ROFL we're broke and killing people in other countries.

Oh George. It was so hilarious.

~(_8(|)

[Shanti Mama]

19. Yup. I posted about this before and wondered why Obama didn't bring it up.

[soothsayer]

20. they lost $2.3 trillion and i think another $1 trillion before that

Eh, it's only money

[paparush]

21. Yeah..everyone's sh*tting bricks over this $700B bailout and I'm thinking..

wait a cotton pickin minute here, the Pentagon probably has that as loose change, if they could find it.