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In reply to the discussion: Pentagon can't account for 8.5trillion in the last decade and a half.... [View all]blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)5. They stacked 100 dollar bills on pallets and shipped them to our enemies, trying to buy "friends."
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Pentagon can't account for 8.5trillion in the last decade and a half.... [View all]
Lobo27
Nov 2013
OP
They stacked 100 dollar bills on pallets and shipped them to our enemies, trying to buy "friends."
blkmusclmachine
Nov 2013
#5
And they're trying to steal it out of your Social Security Net, via the "Grand Bargain."
blkmusclmachine
Nov 2013
#7
A trillion here, a trillion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money
Major Nikon
Nov 2013
#11
That's right, of course. But, whenever I see DoD figures, I remember that Robert Fulghum quote.
Fridays Child
Nov 2013
#22
If you can't account for it, then it fits perfectly under the meme, which includes incompetence
Major Nikon
Nov 2013
#29
How? It's called privatization. The information is proprietary and not public for all intents. Small
freshwest
Nov 2013
#18
The story is rather more careless with its claims than the DoD is with its accounting
bhikkhu
Nov 2013
#21
If they turned these on full power in port, the damage would be incredible.
AtheistCrusader
Dec 2013
#39
Exactly. Imagine being berthed next to an aircraft carrier and turning this on
jmowreader
Dec 2013
#40